Olympus PT-EP05L housing and E-PL3 camera

Jussi Hokkanen · Issue 64, Jan/Feb 2012 · pp. 31–33

Products mentioned: Olympus E-PL3, Olympus PT-EP05L housing, Olympus FL-LM1 strobe, Olympus 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 II R lens, Inon UWL-H100 M67 type 2 wide-angle lens, Olympus PPZR-EP01, Olympus PPZR-EP02, Olympus 9-18mm lens, Panasonic 7-14mm lens, Panasonic 8mm fisheye lens, Olympus 50mm f1.8 lens, Zen Underwater ports, Inon S-2000 strobe, Olympus UFL-1, Olympus UFL-2

The nice people at the Olympus UK lent us the new Olympus E-PL3 camera and the PT-EP05l for a thorough test and we managed to give it a good soaking in the Northern Red Sea last week. The E-PL3 is the latest PEN Lite camera in the series and as the previous PEN models the E-PL3 also comes with an Olympus housing. Made from polycarbonate, the PT- EP05l housing looks very similar to the previous PEN housings but there are also some differences. The most useful change is the new port with a 67mm thread and another new feature is the 4 led focusing lights on the port. The E-PL3 camera continues the series of PEN interchangeable lens compact cameras and is only a very moderate update to the previous E-PL2 camera. Traditionally the E-PLx Pen Lite series have been situated underneath the true PEN E-Px series. However, with the latest models it is very hard to find any real differences between t…