Olympus PT-050 housing in stock, macro lens tests

[cardog]

hey Ron

Stubby squid and shagged carpet nudie - very nice! Glad to see you got to use the housing already. Thanks for the report.

It's only with Canon compacts that there is no TTL in manual model.

Scott

Someone had posted in a review of the Oly that there was no ttl in manual.
I'm really hoping that there is a wide angle option for this camera housing at some point in time....

 

[Joe Cool]

Just in case anyone is interested in reading the instruction manual for the PT-050 case, here it is:
Olympus PT-050 Underwater Case Manual

I have posted the same link under the thread called "Olympus PT-050 Housing in stock, wide angle lens tests".

 

[Lyndon]

Thanks Joe.

 

[slowhands]

Someone had posted in a review of the Oly that there was no ttl in manual.
I'm really hoping that there is a wide angle option for this camera housing at some point in time....

As I posted a while ago, the Olympus PTWC-01 wide conversion lens works well with this housing, according to Yuzo in Japan. They got the cameras and housings in Japan a month before the US, and had time to play with all the options. The Olympus lens is an older lens, but was way overdesigned and still is brilliant. It's drawback: it's bigger and heavier than most. Cost is $400, similar to others.

See earlier posts on this topic:
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/olympus-outlet/371964-add-lenses-xz1-pt-050-a.html
We've been having this sort of discussion for a long time. Check out this 2006 post:
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/olympus-outlet/128782-olympus-wide-angle-lens-options-c5060.html

 

[nudibranco]

Could it be that the Inon H series would work having a rear diameter bigger? Maybe with the 67mm to AD adaptor?