e410 lenses and ports

Juaneta,

Nice shots. I like the kit lens as well. However I just took the plunge on that 50mm macro and will dive with it in May. Couldn't afford the 1.4 or 2.0 teleconverter but have some diopters and I'm going to try and modify a Woody's Wet Diopter (which I think would work great with the kit lens). I'll keep you all posted on my DIY port adapter..haha.

Thanks Gary, it will be great to see your photos with the 50mm macro, and also photos with the 14-42 mm.

Regards

Juanra

I am in the process of upgrading from the Oly 5050 to the e410. I have the PT-e03 housing and the Athena 14-42 dome port. I am currently looking for the a macro port. I will be getting the 50mm and 1.4 converter.

the question is which brand port is the best Athena or Inon? Or are both equally the same. Has anyone tried the Inon magnetic focusing ring?

I have used the Inon macro port with the magnetic ring and it has some upsides over the Athena port. First is cost, they are both very robust and well made ports but Inon has the better price. Most important is that the Inon port only requires one gear, which will work with ANY housing with the Olympus port mount. This means that you can use the same gear to drive the 50 mm macro lens, 50 mm + 1.4X tele converter and 50 mm + 2X tele converter. It can also be used with the Olympus housings, the Nexus E-3 housing, SeaTool E-3 housing and any other housing that comes along with the Olympus port adapter.

With the Athena port a different gear is required with each lens combination and each housing manufacturer.

The magnetic focus is a bit sloppy (to fine tune) compared to a fixed gear but I found myself using manual to reach fully extension of the lens more than anything else because AF works very well with this lens. It begins to slow only with the 2X tele converter and diopters.

Both ports have the 67 mm threaded end for the addition of diopters and the Athena ring flash.

Phil Rudin

Hi Phil

Can you still buy the Olypus housing Pt-E03 every site I look at has it back ordered?

regards

Ardy

To my knowledge Olympus has sold out this housing and they are ramping up for the release of the PT-E05 housing for the new Olympus E-520 camera which will be released this month. The new PT-E05 housing should release by the end of July, at least in Japan.

Phil Rudin

Phil,

From the picture it looks like it is all set up for fiber optics, nice..

Do you know if the PT-E03 ports will work with it?

ps: my wife loves the E-410 and does not use live view at all. The transition from point and shoot to DSLR effortless for her. Since the PT-E03 is so compact, she can now has room to carry some of my Subal ports for me.

thanks, Elmer

All the ports from Olympus, Athena and Inon will work with this housing. It has fiber optic ports built-in and a new type of latching device. It will also use the same gears as in the past.

Phil Rudin

I know nothing about shooting underwater, but I have been using my wife´s new E-410 topside a lot on holiday in Spain. The built-in flash power can be reduced. That may reduce flashj bleed