I have seen that Oceanbrite (that makes the PT housings for Olympus) is going to start making a housing for the Sony S85. Has anyone seen one of these?
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New Oceanbrite housing for Sony S85
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New Oceanbrite housing for Sony S85
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Hello. First time posting here. Thanks to everyone for all the great info!
I have the ikelite housing for the Sony S75 with a DS-125 strobe and sensor. If you have not bought a housing yet, I might consider another camera altogether. The jog dial which controls all of the manual functions is almost impossible to manipulate with the ikelite housing. I can't imagine another housing would be better due to the fact you have to "press" the dial to engage the function. I spoke to Ike about this (very nice and helpful) and he relayed their frustration with this aspect of the S75/S85 cameras. It is possible to do, but very slow and frustrating.
On the up side, the camera did take very good pictures set entirely on automatic.
If you are commited to using the S85, I will sell my Ikelite Housing at a very good price!!! Used only for one week on the Fiji Aggressor.
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I checked, and I am able to set the exposure control on my s85 (just the one to overide the automatic setting, not in full manual) and manual focus using only the dial (if you leave the menu, such as pressing the spot metering button twice, once to change the spot metering and once to change it back) it will remember the setting without pressing the jog dial. These are the only settings I think I would be concerned with. I don't like getting too exotic on photography underwater, I prefer to enjoy the dive and take pictures in a more or less point and shoot mode. I already own the S85 and love the camera.
I curious about the Oceanbrite housing because it seems to be linked in some way (Olympus contracts with Oceanbrite, or Olympus owns Oceanbrite, whatever) with the Olympus housing. Even the model number, PT-DSC-S85 seems to show that. And the Olympus housing is famous for ease of use and sells for under $300. That makes it a housing I really want to see. It is hard to beat Ikelite's reputation, but Oceanbrite/Olympus has been making one heck of a strong move.