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Hi Jack, and all. Does the 10bar for olys have a zoom flat port available? Also, is the epl3 focus abd shutter speed improvement enough to be worth the price premium over the epl2? Thanks.

Hi Phil. The problem with oly's UI, is that it requires one to push the e/v button every single time, to adjust fstop or shutter speed. Every single time you take a photograph, it forgets what you were adjusting last time. Every other camera I've ever used or held, including panasonic, sony...

Right! Even the macro lens is really to short for underwater. 45mm. Too short to photograph anything with eyes, that can get away!

Yes, the nex7 appears to have precisely as good SNR and DR as the nikon d7000, with more resolution! If only there were some lenses! Phil the pan gf1, gf2, have a real thumb wheel, on the upper rear right side, above the 4 way rocker controls. Not the fiddly little dial wheel AROUND the 4...

Hmm, all the panasonic mirrorless cameras have the 2 thumb wheels, except that silly gf3. To me the ep3 with the extra thumb wheel is way better as a land camera. Assuming one wants to have a good land camera, and a housing for it, the 10bar housing for the ep3 really sounds like an...

Thanks Phil! Great work. So do you feel there is a big difference, auto focus and shutter lag wise, from the epl2 to the epl3? Will you be reviewing the oly housing? I see with excitement that 10 bar is making a housing for the ep3, no l. This strikes me as a much better user interface, for...

What ever happened to the oly housings for the epl3? Have they got lost with the bad management? Why no early reviews? Phil? Scott? What news?

Sweet! Thanks!

right folks. My real question is then can an optical ttl strobe like inon s2000 follow that fast of a flash, and do proper ttl expsoure at full shutter speeds?

I was just playing with an lx5, and I swear it can do properly exposed ttl flash, with the internal flash, all the way to 1/4000 sec shutter speed. Does the inon or s&s fiber optic slave ttl modes actually work all the way up to that speed with this camera? That would be major, in terms of...

That is why I suggested using auto iso only in M mode. You retain control of DOF, and freezing motion, and use the metering to set the ISO, to match what you have preselected. That way it cannot go wild with iso, since you are only giving it one degree of freedom.

The ikelite housings are thousands of dollars less than all the fancy aluminum ones, and work perfectly well. They allow wired strobe connections, so you don't have to use the on camera flash, and get more battery life. They have a full set of port options, for all the lenses used underwater...

The A mode in this camera is very useful. It allows you to pick the shutter speed range allowed, when you turn the flash on. The same speed limits apply to P mode to I am guessing. So you can set it to never go below 1/100th and it will go up to 1/180, which is the fastest flash sync speed...

Nice work. I had an ft2, and always been disappointed in the image quality. Looks like a nice improvement with the 3rd generation.

#1 - if you are talking flat port, then getting a longer one than needed is not recommended. If you are talking dome port, then for sure not. The lens optical pupil needs to be in the right position in the dome. Do you really mean the 10-17 tokina, not the 10-77 right? #2 - the port and dome...

The big problem with the canon g series, and the most digicams, is the terrible shutter lag, for autofocus. It is the most frustrating thing, to have a camera which can deliver great images, and have this wonderful shot framed, and you push the shutter, and nothing happens, and you wait, and...

I would have thought connecting a strobe to the lx5 hotshoe, as is done in the ikelite housing, would convince the camera to leave the strobe on, no matter how close you get..

Thanks High desert. Maybe if we keep bouncing back and forth. Or maybe if we used some swear words, the moderators would notice...

Thanks gismonkey!

I have dived the kona coast every year for 20 years, and spent 1-2 months living there, every year, since my parents moved there. Just going by my own observations. You are completely unaffected by fish collectors in Oahu, so it is easy for you to say there is no problem. 99% of the...