Saturday, October 11, 2008

new sea & sea DX-2G ?

as i read on digifish.nl/ sea & sea might release the successor to the sea & sea DX-1G. according to what i read on the web, the new sea&sea will be using the ricoh caplio GX-200 (following information from dprview.com):


  • 24mm f2.5-4.4 lens, 3x zoom
  • sensor image stabilization
  • macro at 1cm
  • manual focus and raw
  • hotshoe
  • no optical viewfinder (an external viewfinder can go on the hotshoe)
  • ISO to 1600
  • 12mp
a few reviews for the ricoh camera are listed on dcviews.com. i dont see a lot of differences with the previous model.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

panasonic lx3


Might be a great camera underwater. Problem is, no housing exists. Yet. I was reading through some reviews about the lx3, including this one, apparently showing a 2 stop advantage (or some advantage..) over the G9 in terms of noise and lens aperture, as discussed here


One link led to another, and i saw this post on dpreview.com about a possibility that UK-germany is planning to make a housing for the LX3. uk-germany was making a housing for the panasonic lx2, as you can see on digideep. odd looking one for sure. 
would be great news. panasonic lx3 looks like a great compact camera: leica f2.0 lens 24-60mm (35mm equivalent), full manual control including manual focus, image stabilization (lens), raw, hot shoe.
cannot find any other information about this at the time. 
is there any other information around?