10Bar Panasonic LX3 housing

Peter Rowlands & Sim Chee Ghee · Issue 47, Mar/Apr 2009 · pp. 31–34

Products mentioned: 10Bar LX3 housing, Panasonic LX3, Panasonic LX2, Sea & Sea YS-110 Alpha strobe, DMW-LW46 wide converter, DMW-LA4 lens adapter, Ikelite bulkhead, Nikonos V connector, S6 connector, UK Germany LX3 housing, Nautilus LX-3 housing

10Bar Panasonic LX3 housing by Sim Chee Ghee and Peter Rowlands I managed to test the 10bar-LX3 housing recently in Anilao, Philippines. The first dive with it was a night dive, which turned out to be a night( mare!) dive! The operations on the housing require a lot of practice and one must be able to see the buttons properly! I ended up turning my focus light to the back of housing to see them! The control buttons are cleverly designed to reduce clutter, so some of them rotate to control separate buttons. It does require some practice but once mastered they do a very good job. The housing is extremely compact and sturdy, barely larger than the camera itself. Do insert the camera carefully to avoid scratches, I already got some! The housing is made of 6061 aluminium, one of the most extensively used of the 6000 series aluminium alloy and is a good choice for tough performance in seawater…