Olympus 5060 & PT-020 housing system

Peter Rowlands · Issue 17, Feb/Mar 2004 · pp. 14–15

Products mentioned: Olympus C5060, Olympus PT-020 housing, Olympus FL-20 TTL flash, 0.7 wide angle lens, Inon wide angle lens, UN strobe

14 Until now there were two distinct categories of underwater digital camera - SLR and “point and shoot” but now, with the introduction of the Olympus PT-020 we have a new intermediate category and I don’t know what to call it. “Point and shoot interchangeable lens auto TTL flash” is a bit of a mouthful but that’s what it is. PSILATTL for short if you want but however you categorize it this new outfit is truly groundbreaking. The Olympus C5060 wide zoom camera is the latest from this revolutionary range. It’s a 5.1 megapixel camera with the capability, it would seem, of a Tardis. Measuring just 116 (W) x 87 (H) x 65.6 (D)mm and weighing just 430gms it has functions and a performance which defy belief. Fortunately in such a review I don’t have to go into great detail about the camera’s capabilities for we are here to report (worship?) the arrival of the PT-020 housing system which I think…