Smart choice

Sabine Roesel & Mark Fothergill · Issue 141, Nov/Dec 2024 · pp. 51–55

Products mentioned: iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone 14 Pro Max, Divevolk Seatouch 4 Max housing, ProCamera app, Photoshop Elements

responds to the rotation of the zoom ring, and the viewfinder image is replaced by a black screen. The nearest camera repair shop is in mainland Mexico, in a city that you have to fly to by airplane. I contacted the repair shop online and they told me that this is a typical problem for this lens. You have to change the stub, a group of electrical contacts inside the lens that connects the motor and the lens processor. The part is inexpensive, but shipping the going to switch to other photographic equipment, and I think that for my tasks, for commercial underwater photography, the quality of the micro4/3 sensor is quite enough. The only criterion I would like to improve my kit is to shoot better quality video. That’s why now I’m closely following the progress of micro4/3 cameras for video shooting underwater. And so far I don’t know who will win - OM or Panasonic/ But that’s a topic for a…