Parting Shots

Dan Bolt & Kaido Haagen · Issue 59, Mar/Apr 2011 · pp. 75–76

Products mentioned: Nauticam housing, Sony NEX-5, Olympus E-PL1 PEN, Olympus housing, Sea & Sea 3T lens, Sea & Sea 2T lens, Nikonos lenses

Parting Shot 1 In issue 57 of this fabulous magazine there was an article about the Nauticam housing for the Sony NEX-5 compact system camera. Both the camera and housing look superb and plainly are very capable of producing top-notch images. For me the most interesting part of the article was the adaptor which allowed the use of old Nikonos lenses - this was exciting news. Exciting that was, until I saw the price of used Nikonos lenses on ebay! Ah, somewhat less excited now but the idea of using ‘old’ lenses got me thinking. Being in the market for an upgrade from compact cameras, I plumped for the Olympus E-PL1 PEN camera & Olympus housing combo supplied by my friends at Cameras Underwater. This rig’s compact size and lightness of the housing suits my style perfectly and a plus point was the Olympus adaptor with a 67mm thread which fits over the top of the port and allows the use of ‘w…