Housings for Panasonic cameras

I just noticed on the Panasonic (Lumix) web site that they had a gallery with underwater images.

Images by Takaji Ochi

The "review" talks about a transparent housing. Who is the manufacturer?

Panasonic and Ewa-Marine do housings for some Lumix models.

Check out:

http://digideep.com/english/digital/photo/...a/Panasonic/155

for details on housings for specific models.

They specifically talk a about a (mostly) transparent housing for the LUMIX DMC-F1. It never occurred to me that it could be a plastic bag.

Digideep does not list any housings/bags for the DMC-F1.

...and most likely wasn't a plastic bag.

Panasonic housings at DigiFish

Panasonic's new FX01 should be a good one. It's got a 28mm lens and image stabalization. It looks like you can adjust WB manually. And there is a new housing, the DMC-FX01.

The fx01 looks very interesting as an inexpensive P&S digicam with housing.

Besides the 28mm, it also has superb focus speed, and retains good focus speed in low light:

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/panasonicfx01/page4.asp

Housing takes inon wet lenses..

Here's the Inon set-up.

http://www.inonamerica.com/news.php?news_id=56&newscat=0

-Mark Rupert / Inon America, Inc.