new canon dSLR

canon announced a new entry level dSLR, 450D which has live view with contrast based autofocus which means that no mirror flap is necessary for focusing during live view mode. dpreview.com mentions a price around 900USD with a lens and lots of info about the camera.

The olympus E410 which also has live view for some time now, needs to flip the mirror in order to focus which causes some delay and a screen black-out. I have used the olympus E410 (only on land) a little bit and i find the live view mode is a bit slow.

Fantasea and ikelite should produce housings soon. so a fantasea housing with the new canon camera would be around 2000 USD or so, an ikelite would be maybe 2500USD with the camera (just guessing those numbers, i may be way off). The olympus E410 with an olympus housing is now about 1500USD.