Blog article on EP-PT12 Housing Posted

[JackConnick]

I've posted a new article on the Optical Ocean Sales store blog on the new Olympus EP-PT12 housing for the E-PL7:
[h=3]Review - Olympus PT-EP12 Underwater Housing for the PEN E-PL7 Camera[/h]I'll update with more info on the E-PL7 when I get back fro Europe. Suffice to say it's an OM-D E-M1 without all the manual controls and build quality - making it a great option for UW photography.

 

[victor]

Jack
Thanks for the review.
Any idea when you are going to try this underwater?
I am assuming that the ZEN ports and the older PEN ports will fit the new housing, is this correct?

 

[JackConnick]

Hi;

The older ports fit fine.

The difficulty is that the new Oly 14-42 power zoom lens that the housing is made for doesn't have a zoom gear, so it's sort of worthless at this point. Oly is trying to figure something out.

The camera shoots just like the OM-D E-M1, pretty much has the same inards, just less controls and build quality.

Jack

 

[PHIL RUDIN]

The lens can be power zoomed using the up/down arrows if you can dig into the menus and find how to reassign to that function. Deepshots.uk also has a gear for the lens, they have also just posted a short review of the equipment.

 

[JackConnick]

Phil;

Thanks for that! Yes, we sat doewn and figured out that you can asign the "lens zoom" feature to either of the up/down, left right buttons.

 

[alpine]

Just when I think I've made a decision, the price drops on the e-M5 and Olympus housing.
I haven't found a local place to lay hands on them - If you were choosing... which would you buy?

Thanks!

 

[deeper thoughts]

Good info, I wonder if this lens is a good upgrade from the 14-42 2r. I have the omd 5 and the Olympus housing

 

[PHIL RUDIN]

In regard to image quality you would see little difference and because of the size of the lens, (not very long) you would need the smaller (new) port to take full advantage of this new compact lens.

 

[chris196]

Just when I think I've made a decision, the price drops on the e-M5 and Olympus housing.
I haven't found a local place to lay hands on them - If you were choosing... which would you buy?

Thanks!

Where have you seen a price drop on an em5 housing?
I've seen package price dropped, but that reflects the camera dropping in price.

If the housing alone dropped, I missed it.

 

[deeper thoughts]

In regard to image quality you would see little difference and because of the size of the lens, (not very long) you would need the smaller (new) port to take full advantage of this new compact lens.

thnx.