Olympus E-410 and PT-E03 housing

Rob Spray · Issue 41, Mar/Apr 2008 · pp. 22–26

Products mentioned: Olympus E-410, PT-E03 housing, Olympus E-400, Olympus E-330, PT-E02 housing, 14-42mm kit lens, FL-36 flash, FL-20 flash, Fantasea tray, UFL1 strobe, Olympus C-7070, Olympus C-900, PT-003 housing

As you look around a diveboat these days it’s hard to avoid the feeling that every diver has a camera. I blame Olympus who helped create this niche by making dive housings for most of their output since the late nineties - ever since the PT-003 for the C-900. Now there’s a great choice of excellent small cameras from numerous manufacturers. While low end competition is cutthroat Olympus are still ahead in the breadth of models they house, from point and shoot up through their range to the SLRs. Having seeded the market it may now be the top end which they will bring within easier reach. To see if their new kid is out of its depth we took it on a fun November weekend in Plymouth with the last of the good(ish) weather. The camera One promise of Olympus’ chosen 4/3 sensor system was that smaller cameras would be possible. This has been an empty threat as the first four E- Series cameras wer…