G9 - Definitive Information

Hi Pakman, yes of course OEM housings have a fixed port and that may be their 'undoing' when applying this modification. As I understand it, purpose of the G9 Ikelite short port is not so much to avoid vignetting (though I'm sure it does) but to place the optics in a 'correct' relationship. As an Ikelite owner, I won't be researching this one, but OEM owners will appreciate the 'heads up'.

OEM housings are normally well catered for by Sea & Sea who supply push fit adaptors for their Motor Marine I compatible w/a glass - 17mm and 20mm. I used such a setup on my point and shoot Pentax Optio before I circummed to this madness...

I doubt that Canon designed their OEM housing with add-on external lenses in mind :-(

James

Have you seen that? I've found it at a Japanese online shop.

Sea&Sea announced some new housings for 2008

at DEMA show.

The metal housong for Canon G9 MDX-G9

M DX meaning machine product and this housing is made from Alminum block by machine tool.

TTL converter is installed in the body and you can use i-TTL with Sea&Sea YS-110 or else and wet cable connection.

The target release date is Jan.2008. the price has not been announced yet.but it is around 140,000yen

Some pictures:

It seems it has something similar to a M67 port. I hope so. I think it's a better solution that a port for Sea&Sea lenses. I cannot see ports for strobe fibers, but a Nikonos electrical connection is ok.

Anyway, price seems a bit high, specially because the Ike housing seems quite satisfactory and cheaper.

Its good to see third party housing manufacturers (Ikelite and Sea & Sea) responding to the G9, which I think is becoming the 'compact camera of choice' as it offers many of the advantages of a DSLR with few of the disadvantages. I think we're going to see a lot of fine images coming from this camera. All I want now is INON to produce a M67 version of the UFL-165 AD...

Oh lookie here... Was browsing www.uwdigitalcamera.com (Yuzo) and he's got a M67 adapter that fits on to the Canon DC21 housing without a mod! Not sure who makes it.

Notice the warning about using it with wide angle add-on lenses. I guess you're going to have to zoom out a good amount to avoid vignetting (and probably defeat the purpose of getting the WA add on).

http://uwdigitalcamera.com/goods_detail.php?goodsIdx=217

I'm impressed!

Doesn't look like there's a control for the dial to change aperture/shutter speed on that Sea&Sea housing..

Or is it that dial above the LCD screen? Can't think of what else that may be.

Another tweak...

The lens hood / shade on the INON UWL-100 dome unit is susceptible to a 'ding' so I have protected mine with strips of black rubber extrusion. The 3mm variant of 'BRS30' does the job nicely and does not obstruct the image. HTH