Oly 8080 and 5050 lenses

I was wondering if anyone has any news on whether the new Oly 8080 will be able to use the Inon WAL and Dome Unit being used by the 5050. I am actually thinking about picking up an 8080 if this is possible...anyone following this?

--John

I would put the odds of an external WAL working with the 8080 to produce satisfactory results at about 100:1

The 8080 has a MASSIVE zoom lens.

Cheers

James

Geez, james. First you don't call me when you're all the way out here in Hawaii, and now you take a big pee on all my dreams. Thanks a bunch.

I started getting excited yesterday when I saw the 8080 on sale and the dive mags I read here in Japan showed some pics of it. One of the places I buy from warned me off of it as an UW camera though. He said the casing is very poorly designed. Lots of issues. The designer of the housing is the same as before, but they built it according to OLY request and not necessarily the way it should be done.

Oh well, I will continue dreaming of Canon then...

--John

Sorry John, I didn't really even spend a day on Oahu.

Cheers

James

:-) I'm just kidding. Besides, with the weather we had that week, there wouldn't have been much difference between diving on Oahu and diving in a Tijuana toilet bowl...(sorry for the visual).

I was wondering if anyone has any news on whether the new Oly 8080 will be able to use the Inon WAL and Dome Unit being used by the 5050. I am actually thinking about picking up an 8080 if this is possible...anyone following this?

 

--John

Hello John !

The actual INON WAL Lens (and Domeport) will not work with the Olympus C8080. Because of the new camera lens, which extends between 5mm (Wideangle) to 40mm (max. Zoom), the standard Domeport of the PT-023 must have a much greater diameter than the PT-015 or PT-020. The only WA-Lens in the near future will be the original Olympus WCON-08D and the Domeport PPO-05. And this equipment will be a massive one. I saw the actual PP0-02 for the PT-020 at the CEBIT 2004 and the diameter of the domeport is about 180 !!! mm.

Greetings from Germany

Udo

Hi Udo,

Did you take any photos at CEBIT? If so, we would LOVE to see them. I would also ask you to consider sending us a short show report.

And if you get a chance to go by and look at the Fuji S3pro...:-)

Sincerely,

James Wiseman

Hi James,

i'm sorry but i couldn't spend much time at the Cebit. Had a lot of work to do visiting our partners.

I only visited the Olympus-Booth to meet some friends and take a look at my new C8080 :wink: .

I hope Andi from digideep.com will visit the Cebit and post a report.

Sincerly,

Udo Strickrodt