new micro 4/3 camera and goes underwater

[AndyT]

I agree with Phil - I use the same setup and similar camera settings and get some great results.

 

[Mr_Pyro]

Like Phil said, sometimes a lower ISO setting is better to get rid of motion blur from hand holding, because a higher percentage of light will come from the strobe, and you'll get a Doc Edgerton style freeze frame.

What I ment with my statement to shoturtle, was that if you cant shoot steady you need more strobe power, so that you can dial in a faster shutter setting on the camera. If the strobes are maxed out (unlikely when doing macro) you either have to buy a more powerfull one or use a higher ISO setting so that you can shoot at 100th to 180th of a second, less than 100th is pretty much a waste of time in my experience. Especially when shooting fish, I've got tons of unsharp fish photos in 1/60 second shuttertime, prior to moving to a DSLR ;-)
1/180 sec is the way to go.

But all this is a fairly unnecescary discussion as Shoturtle was talking about shoting without a strobe (Ambient light only). Sligthly confusing in a thread about housings for m4/3 cameras..


As others have mentioned a low ISO setting (100) is standard when using a flash UW.
I've seen some nice aimbient light werck photos done with a tripod and high iso settings, totaly different game thoo...

About high Apertures and studio tests, gues you'd only notice the unsharpness if you start to pixelpeep the pictures at 100% crop.
Ie in real world the 50mm Zuiko is performing so good that one can safely shoot at F22
I'm very hapy with my 50mm can't complain about the sharpness

 

[shoturtle]

Just found out Olympus is working on another M4/3 camera, with aimed even more toward the point and shoot market. It is suppose to be a dumb down epl-1. Price around 400 dollars. They are aiming seriously at the bridge camera market.

 

[fallingspeaker]

For the m9-18, it telescopes out to be used as shown here Exclusive look at Olympus Micro Four Thirds 9-18mm super wide zoom lens (Four Thirds User)

Does that mean it will have a problem working in a dome port? Or is it just "collapsible" during storage and the fully extended position is it's "normal" operating position. The original 9-18 extended just 3mm total distance between its zoom range.

 

[JackConnick]

I tried the 9-18 out at PMA and it didn't extend like these photos show. I'm having some doubts about what's shown.

Jack

 

[gballard]

Well... if you tried it out, you should know.

 

[shoturtle]

Just found out that Oly change the AA settings on the sensor of the epl-1. You can use high noise reduction and still get more details. I tried it and the epl-1 is actually good to 2000iso and is acceptable to 2500iso, and in a pinch useable to 3200iso.

Check out this link,

http://www.imaging-resource.com/IMCOMP/COMPS01.HTM

Compare the epl-1 to the ep2 and the d90. Very impressive from such a little camera.

 

[nikitich]

Here is what Inon has to offer for E-Pl1
http://translate.google.com/transla...a=268&mode=msg_view&page=0&news=1&sl=ja&tl=en

 

[Sail Rock Diver]

Housing for GF1 from Seatool

UWdigitalcamera.com

1492.40 Euro

 

[gballard]

Best Buy is now selling the E-PL1......interesting.