Olympus E3 / Nexus E3

Karin Brussaard · Issue 42, May/Jun 2008 · pp. 18–20

Products mentioned: Olympus E3, Nexus E3 housing, Olympus E-330, Olympus E-300, Olympus E-410, PPO-E3 port, 50mm macro lens, 7-14mm wide-angle lens, PPO-E04 dome port, PER-E02 attachment ring, 8mm fisheye lens, Olympus FL-36, Olympus FL-20, PFL-E01 housing, PFL-01 housing, Sea & Sea YS 110, Inon ports

The Olympus E3 is the new flagship based on the Four Thirds standard E-System. The E3 is an extremely advanced camera that can be used for every assignment and fully complies with the strict requirements of DSLR photography. Olympus have put their own underwater housings, made of polycarbonate, on the market for the E-330, E-300 and E410. For their underwater housing of the E-3 Olympus have sought to cooperate with Nexus. Nexus have been producing aluminium underwater housings for many years now, initially for traditional SLR cameras and now DSLRs of various brands. Nexus has a lot of experience developing underwater housings and you can tell by the E3. The underwater housing looks neat and well thought-out. The Olympus E-3 fits nicely in the housing and the way Nexus has built the housing it enables the internal flash to be folded up. This allows operating the flash with an optical cabl…