Olympus E-420: no olympus housing for it?

here is a thread from wetpixel.com on the subject. PT-E03 (the housing for E410) has been discontinued and olympus has not announced any plans to build a housing for E420.

photo opportunity

yesterday at shark point, i was taking a picture of a nudibranch:



and this little guy swam right next to the nudibranch, to get in the picture...
fish really like to be photographed it seems....

canon G7 raw

here is a post on tweaking G7 to produce raw- from the dpreview discussion forums.

new olympus E420

there is a new olympus E420 dSLR, available in may 2008. here is the announcement on the olympus australia site and the dpreview site.

Improved Live view with contrast autofocus (no mirror flap i guess), shadow adjust should improve some issues with dynamic range, high contrast scenes. about 500USD body only, as reported on dpreview.

Beneath The Sea - 2008: Photo & Video Competition

winning photos from the "Beneath The Sea - 2008" Photo & Video Competition.
i like the happy fish by Steven Kovacs (2nd in macro category)
well i like all of them really... the smiling fish was sort of funny.

the best-in-show photos (photographers) win trips to papua new guinea.
how about that. these days i was arranging my next overseas diving trip to papua new guinea...