Compact flash comparison

Dan Bolt & Dan Hopkins · Issue 40, Jan/Feb 2008 · pp. 27–31

Products mentioned: Canon G9, Ikelite housing, Canon WP-DC21, Sea & Sea YS110, Ikelite DS51, Inon Z240, Canon A640, Ikelite Autoflash 35, Olympus SP350, Olympus SP560, Nikon P5000

The recently released 12mpix Canon G9 has created quite a stir in photographic circles with both Canon and Ikelite producing a housing for it. Allowing underwater photographers to add this fabulously-specified camera to their Christmas list this year. One of the main advantages of cameras like the G9, or ‘bridge’ cameras to use the popular term, is that having a hot-shoe mount for external flash-guns means that there is true TTL metering and flash control being produced by the metering system in the camera itself. To reflect this ability of the G9 and to extend it to our chosen photographic environment, a number of strobes have been in production over the last few years to make the most of the TTL capabilities offered by bridge units like the Canon G series cameras, the Olympus SP350 & SP560 models and Nikon’s P5000. What we are going to try to do in this article is to conduct a head-to-…