Light & Motion's Titan Housing
Posted By Rod Klein on 21 November 2002
Titan ROC Display. Notice the Red Power Indicators
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The Titan provides access to all camera functions including full manual and auto focus, full manual shutter and aperture controls, access to all camera menus and all camera controls. You can produce beautiful underwater color images at a whopping 5 megapixels, and the Titan's easy-to-use interface mirrors the camera controls, allowing for a seamless transition from above water to underwater photography.
After working with the Light & Motion Tetra/ Olympus 3030 combination, I was thrilled to be able to use this camera in full SLR mode and be able to manually focus the camera using the large and very sensitive magnetic focus ring. In a critical macro situation where you don't want to always rely on autofocus, its great to be able to flip an easily accessible switch and focus the camera yourself.
Lets talk megapixels for a second. What do all these numbers mean? First, the more megapixels, the more image information is contained in your digital image. So while a 3.3 megapixel camera at medium resolution will produce an image file about 600 KB, the 5 megapixel camera will produce an image about 1.5 megabites, almost 3 times as much digital information. But more important is that the Olympus E20 can use a much higher capacity storage device such as a 512mb Compact Flash or even a 1 gigabyte Microdrive. I use a 1 gig IMB Microdrive (less than $300) in my camera and I am able to get 65 fully uncompressed 15 megabyte images. An uncompressed image means that every pixel the camera sees is recorded in the digital file. A compressed image discards some data that is similar in order to make the file size smaller. With the Olympus E20 and Light & Motion Titan I am able to get the highest image quality from the camera.
But let's not stop here. I have always felt that Light & Motion was ahead of the pack when it comes to lighting control. This has certainly been true with their line of video housing and light packages. The Tetra is the best of its class by allowing full strobe control with its Nikonos Bulkhead system. But the Titan is in a class by itself.
Titan Infrared Handle
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