If you own the Panasonic LX5 you might be interested to take a look at the new Nauticam underwater housing. It has a depth rating of 75 meters and will sell for $950. You can read the full specs here: http://nauticamusa.com/. It’s a lot more expensive than the [shoplink 21531]Ikelite housing (Click here ot see that item on eBay)[/shoplink] which costs $545 only. I am not an expert and I don’t know if the price difference is justified because of better specs.
Olympus XZ-1 user do have an even cheaper alternative: The Olympus PT-050 which is available for around $300 (300 Euro) at [shopcountry 21532].
Olympus E-PL1 user can get the Olympus PT-EP01 at [shopcountry 21533].
and the E-PL2 user can get the Olympus PT-EP03 at [shopcountry 21535].
15 Responses
should a dyslexic run a rumors site?
Big deal, the Admin misspelled Housing. OMG!!! And the Admin forget a space. Don’t be a Jerk.
Pardon Burnardo! I woke up 30 mintues ago and I am still walking around like a Zombie 🙂
Anyway, why should dyslexic people not have the right to run a blog? Read the “About us” presentation. This is a very unperfect and unprofessional website. Yes I am a noob and I work on this website every time I have 5 minutes between one work and another (my real work is photographer and documentarist). That’s why you see such mispellings or other mistakes (oh and I am a native german-italian speaker…not english). But I put a lot of passion and I do have a lot of fun with that website. Somthing maye other websites have lost with their professional approach…
admin, if you asked your critics to run this website under the same conditions as you run it (not being a native English speaker, battling with stupid pug-ins and so on) would they do a better job? I doubt it. Fair criticism is one thing, being unfair about your use of English grammar and spelling skills after an eleven hour drive is a bit unfair; after all if you didn’t run the site, who would?
+1 !!!
Well, you for one shouldn’t be allowed to post comments. 🙂
should a dickhead post on a rumours site?
Should, not should…..
Burnardo: should an idiot be allowed to read a rumors site?
Odranrub og kcuf flesruoy! 🙂
Now…about that waterhousing…..
Anyway, back to the actual news… Looks like a fun piece of kit. Also makes the Oly housings seem like a hell of a bargain 🙂
The XZ-1 just keeps looking better and better, $300 to be able to take a camera with its optical quality and low light capabilities along when I go snorkeling is a definite bargain. And how Nauticam can justify a housing ($950) that costs over twice the value of the camera (LX-5 at $399) has me scratching my head.
what is it with the clown fish and underwater photography products?
Dreams of Nemo sushi, no doubt. 😉
The Nauticam housing is rated to 75 meters, which is made from aircraft aluminum. The Ikelite to 60 meters, made of plastic. That’s a big difference right there.
The Nauticam appears to be better engineered and has a switch that allows you to change the aspect ratio while it’s in the housing. It’s considerably smaller than the Ikelite, too.
Nauticam: 156mm x 104mm x 105mm
Ikelite: 180mm x 130mm x 140mm
http://nauticamusa.com/
http://ikelite.com/web_two/pan_lx5.html
cool down everyone, it was more like a joke… 😉