Manual Focus Ring for Olympus PEN Underwater Housings

27/08/2013

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PicturePPZR -EP03 Manual Focus Gear by Olympus
Olympus have now released a Manual Focus Ring (Gear) to fit the very popular Olympus M.Zuiko 60mm f2.8 MSC ED Macro Lens.
This gear allows the photographer to use the manual focus dial on this lens, via the zoom wheel on the Olympus PEN Housings. It fits all Olympus PEN underwater housings from the PT-EP01 to PT-EP10 and all models in-between.
The gear simply slips over the 60mm lens barrel and then engages with the zoom gear wheel in the housing. Auto Focus can still be selected from the menu during a dive and switched from manual to auto-focus at any time.
It is a great accesssory for shooting macro and ultra macro with wet lenses, as the focus can be locked and then held at a point suited to your subject size, focus can be fine tuned via the camera LCD.
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BluSnoot Sunday & Surf Lessons

20/08/2013

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We picked a very windy day for our Sunday Social Dive in North Bali. With friends Chris Cunnold & Wendy Hutchins, we went in search of critters to photograph, all armed with our new BluSnoot Fiber Optic Snoots
We chose Tianyar Beach west of Tulamben, as it had the largest waves  and most surge - ideal for fine tuning our skills with our Fiber Optic Snoots ??
It was also a great place for fine tuning our surf entry/exit skills. We were surprised that we found anything given the conditions but we all managed to capture a few shots of some nudi's and a juvenile ornate ghost pipefish. If nothing else we proved that in very low visibility conditions, we can eliminate almost all backscatter by using our Fiber Optic Snoots to light just the photo subject, rather than all of the sediment in the water... and there was plenty of it !!
Tiny Doto Nudibranch on Black Coral (Also two skeleton shrimps just below the nudibranch)
This juvenile Ornate Ghost Pipefish was hanging next to a crinoid, but
because the Fiber Optic Snoot only lit the subject, the background is
totally black, making the crinoid invisible in the photo.
BluSnoot Sunday - The Equipment Left to Right:
Canon 7D, Nauticam Housing, 100mm macro, Inon Z240 with BlueSnoot Fiber Optic Snoot (Chris Cunnold)
Nikon D90, Nauticam Housing, 60mm macro, Inon Z240 with BluSnoot Fiber Optic Snoot (Wendy Hutchins)
Olympus E-PL2, Olympus Housing, 60mm macro, Inon Z220 with BluSnoot Fiber Optic Snoot (Jeff Mullins)
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