Planning upgrade to E330 with Oly housing

[pennywise]

Hi guys and girls!!

Concidering the fact that I think I outgrew my 5060 PT 020 combi, it would be nice to have other user's opinion and/or experience with the Oly 330 and Oly housing...:blinking:

There's also a 10Bar housing available for this cam... any comments on that one too??

Lookin' fwd to your good selves reactions!

Grtzzzz,

Pennywise

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[calypsonick]

Hey Pennywise,

I bought an E330 recently myself and have been checking into the housing possibilities. I have found that the Oly and 10Bar housings can only accomodate the Olympus flash. I know this is the case with the Oly housing (having asked them) but not totally sure on the 10Bar. So, I have been patiently waiting (not reallly, it's been killing me) for Ikelite to come out with the housing for the E3030 (they keep pushing the date back ) because I have Ikelite DS 125 strobes which will not work with the other housings. The Olympus flash may be enough for you but I want to take some wide angle shots and from what I have read the Oly flash does not have enough output to get light over larger areas.

I hope that helps you with your research.

Nick

 

[pennywise]

Nick,

Thx for your reply.
For the Oly housing, Subtronic manufactures a strobe specially for Olympus TTL. If I decide for that strobe, I'l be using my Inon D2000 as a slave! This config will give me enough power I think.

One day we'll might find a solution together LOL !!

You'll find that strobe on unterwasserkamera there's also an option for pages in english!!

Kind regards,

Rob (Pennywise)

 

[BioG]

There's actually a new review of the camera and the 10-bar housing in the latest issue of Underwater Photo Web Magazine (http://www.uwpmag.com/). The reviewer compares it to the 5050 he's used to. I skimmed it, and it seems like his only dislikes are that there are only two "My Mode" settings.

-Steve

 

[pennywise]

BioG,

Thx for yr reply. I've read the review in uwpmag and it looks like the sort of cam we want! Presently I'm using only 1 Mymode for supermacro purposes, anything else is shot in "M", so the 2 Mymodes available in the 330 are ok for me!

Grtzzzzzz,

Pennywise