Marine diving fair 2008 in Japan

Marine diving fair 2008 was held in Tokyo from 4-6 Apr. Dive shop Tail(Nautilus),Athena, Seatool(Fish Eye booth) and Olympus displayed their products.

Yoko

Tail(Nautilus)

Masaaki Chijimatsu, president of Tail and Hiroshi Arai showed me Nautilus New housings. On display were housings for the Canon 5D, 40D, EOS 400D / Rebel XTi and Nikon D300.

Nautilus housings are made of ABS resin or Acrylic resin and use Inon ports.

Nautilus NEO 40D housing

Yoko

Hi Yoko,

From the look of that housing in your pic, it looks like they tested it

in the washing machine for leaks...

Seems to have had a hard life...

Bruce...

Hi Bruce,

The housing on a picture has been experienced a variety of tests

Nautilus NEO housing for 400 XTi

Nautilus NEO housing for 400 XTi with INON 45-degree viewfinder

Tail officials said prototype of Nautilus NEO housing for 450D / Rebel XSi is scheduled to for completion at the end Apr 2008.

Image of Nautilus NEO housing for 450D / Rebel XSi

Yoko

Hi Yoko,

From the look of that housing in your pic, it looks like they tested it

in the washing machine for leaks...

Seems to have had a hard life...

 

Bruce...

Nautilus housings for Camera, produced by Nikon use Nexus ports. Tail has released of the D300 housing in last Dec.

Housing for Nikon D300

Housings for the Canon430EX Flash Unit and the Nikon SB800 Flash Unit.

Incidentally, I use a housed the Canon580EX Flash Unit in a Nautilus housings with my Sea&Sea DX-5D.

Yoko

Hi Yoko,

Is that a fibre optic port on the SB800 flash unit?

I see that the housing is hard wired for a sync cord as well...

Does this mean that a second SB800 could be slave fired in i-TTL..???

Have you tried using dual canon 'land' flashes with your canon 5D..???

This could be interesting...

Bruce...

Hi Bruce,

SB800 flash unit connects to housing for Nikon Camera with a sync cord in i-TTL.

My Canon580EX Flash Unit connects to DX-5D housing with a sync cord(custom-made by Sea&Sea) in E-TTL and second strobe, INON D2000 connects Canon580EX with a fibre optic cable.

Housings of Nautilus on display case.

Masaaki Chijimatsu, president of Tail, Kei Togashi, head of dive team ES and Hiroshi Arai in tail booth.

Yoko

Hi Yoko,

 

Is that a fibre optic port on the SB800 flash unit?

I see that the housing is hard wired for a sync cord as well...

Does this mean that a second SB800 could be slave fired in i-TTL..???

Have you tried using dual canon 'land' flashes with your canon 5D..???

This could be interesting...

 

Bruce...

ooh, underwater camera cell phone housing....

ooh, underwater camera cell phone housing....

Yea, thankfully the signal strength will be awful, and button access will be at best, frustrating - though from a spectator point of view fun to watch.

Just a matter of time though!

Paul C

Who are the people buying phone housing “emergency phone�

It is great if phone work under water....

Tail can install the INON Straight Viewfinder on Sea&Sea housings.

My DX-350D housing with the INON Straight Viewfinder.

Yoko

Yea, thankfully the signal strength will be awful, and button access will be at best, frustrating - though from a spectator point of view fun to watch.

 

Just a matter of time though!

 

Paul C

Athena

Takuzou Hiramatsu, president of Athena showed me various ports.

Athena is known manufacturer of the opitical glass port. Athena makes high-quality products.

OPD-SZ12-60MF-PTE, New standard zoom port for ZUIKO 12-60mmF2.8-4

OPD-200, Optical dome 200 Vario pro

Athena official said, The universal mount system means the system that saparates fringe from mount part for using with universal standard.

OPF-TMP105VR pro port on Sea&Sea DX-D80 housing.

Yoko

Athena provides a variety of the optical glass ports for the Olympus E series.

OPD-200, OPD-WZ7-14, OPD-WZ12-60 for the Olympus E series.

OPF-MP35, OPF-MP50, OPF-MP105 for the Olympus E series.

Takuzou Hiramatsu, and Athena's staffs at the Athena booth.

Yoko

Takuzou Hiramatsu said Athena is working on various ports.

Ports for Nikon 14-24mm F2.8G and Nikoor60mm F2.8G.

Ports for Canon 16-35mm F2.8L USMâ…¡, 17-40mm F4L USM, EF-S 60mm F2.8 Macro USM and EF180mmF3.5Macro USM.

Yoko

Hi Yoko,

how did you here about the OPD-WZ14-24? Is that a image you took at the show?

I heard from Athena that they would be shipping that port by the end of may...?

I would be very glad if you could help me translate or give me any additional information on the image I have posted below?

kind regards // Alex

Hi Yoko,

how did you here about the OPD-WZ14-24? Is that a image you took at the show?

 

I heard from Athena that they would be shipping that port by the end of may...?

 

I would be very glad if you could help me translate or give me any additional information on the image I have posted below?

 

kind regards // Alex

Hi Alex,

I don't have a image that port at the show because they didn't display it.

On Apr 5th, Mr.Hiramatsu told me that they would be shipping that port within 2 months.

You can do the focus operation and the zoom operation.

We improve the image quality with making the lens part have the performance

of OPDï¼200 and making the field angle of Nikon 14-24mm F2.8G lens specialize.

Was this information helpful?

Yoko

Thanks a lot Yoko!

I am looking forward to see how this dome will perform on larger apertures with the 14-24 @14mm

// Alex

Tail officials said prototype of Nautilus NEO housing for 450D / Rebel XSi is scheduled to for completion at the end Apr 2008.

 

Image of Nautilus NEO housing for 450D / Rebel XSi

 

Yoko

Tail has announced the release of housing for 450D / Rebel XSi on Apr 30.

http://dive-tail.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/20...eo_eo_e29e.html

Housing is scheduled to be available on May 16th.

The world's first housing for 450D / Rebel XSi ?

Yoko

Athena has announced the price cutting of OPD-200Vpro Port (Details have not　yet been decided.) and System Chart of housing for the Olympus camera on Mar 11.

http://www.athena-opt.com/pt-e03-port.html#taiou

Yoko

Tail has announced the release of housing for 450D / Rebel XSi on Apr 30.

http://dive-tail.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/20...eo_eo_e29e.html

Housing is scheduled to be available on May 16th.

The world's first housing for 450D / Rebel XSi ?

 

Yoko

Tail has announced the release of housing for 450D / Rebel XSi on May 19, 2008.

http://www.dive-tail.com/topics/index.php

The housing is scheduled to be available on May 31.

Yoko

Canon 450D / Rebel XSi underwater photography tests with luna lionfish by Chijimatsu Masaaki

http://dive-tail.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/20...eo_x2_2e48.html

photo & text by Mr.Chijimatsu

Mr.Chijimatsu, president of Tail has test Canon 450D / Rebel XSi with Nautilus housing NEO X2 (In Japan, Canon 450D / Rebel XSi is called Canon EOS Kiss X2).

Autofocus system of Canon 450D / Rebel XSi is accurate even with the Canon EF100mm F2.8 Macro USM.

Finder of Canon 450D / Rebel XSi on underwater housing is difficult to use for accurate composition and focus verification.

But the Inon 45 viewfinder offers a bright crisp image with the largest angle of acceptance.

Nautilus housing NEO X2

Price: JPY218,000

Yoko(Tatemigi Akira)