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Has anyone else had a problem with the stock Olympus port o-rings, for lack of a better term, sucking? When I received the housing new they were installed in the flat port and worked fine. I bought the Zen dome and the first time I removed the Oly port I noticed the o-ring grooves are very wide...

I have been messing around with this underwater photo thing for 6 or 7 years now. I have always been a vacation diver like most folks so every dive was mission critical and I did not want to miss a shot. I always have put in fresh batteries every couple of dives in the strobes and camera. I...

Yesterday was a new, unique experience. I shot a lionfish with my ELF, just a small one, maybe 4" long. i pulled it back out from under the coral head where it was hiding. I was getting ready to pull out the knife to finish it off and was planning to drop it on the sand to let something scavenge...

Several years ago I got one of these from my daughter for a birthday present. Really bright, tight beam, small light, easy to carry, great for poking around during daylight dives.....but after a year or so it flooded. Had a leak in the light head, not the double orings. I was living in the...

First pics with the E-PL2....

I've had the camera since March and just got it into the water over Christmas. We went to Sipadan/Mabul for the first time and had a fantastic trip. Given that we mostly dive Caribbean/Bonaire, there were a LOT of new critters to look at. Overall, I have to say I am very impressed with the...

Sipadan Mabul Water Bungalows (SMART) - We just had the pleasure of spending 8 nights at the water bungalows and I have to say it was wonderful. The over water bungalows are great, no complaints about anything. Plenty of hot water for showers and air conditioning at night to sleep comfortably...

What is the current temperature, water temp and hours of rain per day in the Mabul/Sipadan area right now? Never been there and heading down in a couple of weeks. Thanks.

I decided to move up and I bought an Oly E-PL2 and all the toys so I want to sell my 5060 kit. I have about 300 dives with this rig and it was never flooded in either housing. What I am offering is: Olympus C-5060 camera in excellent condition with battery, charger, 2 Gb Sandisk CF card...

If you want to use the slow2 rear curtain sync for the flash on the EPL2, there seems to be no power adjustment feature (to reduce heat build up and extend battery life).......unless you use the flash compensation and take it down to -3.0 or something, right? Thanks.

I'm trying to determine if I am missing something.........or if I have things figured on the "myset" feature of the EPL2. It seems to me that while you can preset up to 4 different myset mode settings, to use them you have to hold down the "fn" button while you take the picture. Is that the only...

Man there are a lot of lionfish around Bonaire now! :shakehead: We just got back from 11 days there and we saw lionfish on all but three dives. One day doing Karpata to the west, we saw six on that one dive alone. Everything from 2 inch babies to some about 14 inches long. Seems like most of...

Is there a technical reason why Canon and FIX use a rectangular port on the front of the housings for the G series cameras? I've scratched my head but can't figure it out. :dontknow:

I'm planning to make my first trip to Egypt in April and am considering either Dahab or El Gouna. Both sound good and, nothing against Sharm, but I would like something a little less crowded. From what I've read, both of these would be nice. What are the + and - for either location? Seems...

The wife and I picked up these suits before heading to Croatia to try a few dives last weekend. We normally dive the Caribbean in 3mm and warm water so this was going to be quite the experiment for us in colder water. The suit is really flexible, made from "Elaskin", so it's relatively easy...

What seems to be the best setting for using the HF200 into available light? Use the underwater setting or not? Programmed AE? Auto white balance? Use the red filter or not? :confused: It's a pain to have the minimum focus go to 30cm in UW mode so good macro almost goes away. I've taken it on...

Having asked the question, I suspect I already know the answer! Aside from the price difference, is the extra horsepower of the Z-240 worth it? I have a D-180 that I have used for several years and am going to get a second strobe.......just in case I didn't have enough task loading with the...

Well, it's not THAT big of a deal! I submitted some photos for use in the Global Underwater Explorers 2009 calendar, but they didn't get selected. However, they did ask if they could use three of my pics in the Winter 2009 issue of their magazine, Quest. :banana: