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?
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apparently they are developing one - http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1033&message=29459599
opps paiseh, didnt see ya comment on that.
Looks like 10Bar showed a prototype underwater enclosure for the Panasonic Lumix DMC LX3 at DEMA last month (22 Oct 2008):
http://www.wetpixel.com/i.php/full/dema-2008-10bar-underwater-housings/
It's listed as a new item in 10Bar's Dec 2008 newsletter:
http://www.10bar.com/new_newsletter.htm
But as of 13 November 2008 it's not in their product list on their site:
http://www.10bar.com/new_product.htm
I can't tell from the photos how usable the joystick will be in the housing.
nice! a 10bar housing for LX3 that's great news.
some googling got me to this blog post http://dive-tail.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/ (which i fed through google translate. that didnt help much though.) there is a price tag of 98,000 yen. for something. not sure what.
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