Didn't Jeff (Sharpdiver) post a very good description in Steve's Digicam forums last year ?
Jeff, maybe you can help here.
If you happen to understand german, try this link:
http://www.multimedia-online.ch/html/bedienung.html
Unfortunately my manual is japanese too (do they have english ones also ?)
What to do:
Step 1:
Check the housing without camera first.
Step 2:
Prepare camera:
- check camera settings (ISO 100, display mode, flash mode, AF mode, resolution and compression mode, ...)
- check batteries (1800 rechargable ones are good for 2 dives,
- check storage card
Step 3:
Prepare Housing
- make sure none of those small screws started to loose up,
Step 4:
- Put your camera in the housing
- add at least 1 silica gel pack
- Take out the o-ring and clean it and the area around it. Check for sand, dust and single small hairs.
- close the housing (make sure that nothing got stuck !!!)
- check if all camera functions are accesable (on, off, zoom, flash, display, menu)
Step 5:
Test in fresh water before you dive (some small bubbles of trapped air may rise up if you put the housing in a water tank but that should end after some seconds
Step 6:
Enjoy your dive and take lots of beautiful pictures.
Try to get as close as you can if you're using the internal flash.
Play around with the macro mode and spot metering.
I have set my display to turn into sleep mode after some minutes, it is reactivated by double pressing the display button.
Get used to the AF trap (by pressing the release shutter only half way down)
Step 7:
After the dive rinse the housing in fresh water. If you plan to do a second dive and you don't have to change batteries or storage card, store the housing with camera in a fresh water tank or wrap it in a wet towel.
Step 8:
Make sure that the housing is dry before you open it.
I hope that helps and that i didn't forget something important
Sabine
