Ryan

The current estimated ship date is May 27 from Nauticam, so a few day s later form individual dealers and distributors.  There is a long preorder queue, so it will be some time after that before new orders are filled.

I had the pleasure of shooting some video last week with the final prototype.

Even more fun was macro video with Olympus 60mm!

Ryan, focus breathing, distortion etc  all very perceptible at any working resolution.  S16 lenses like the Arri are designed for cinema so they don't the same issues as lenses designed for both stills and video.

I guess I'm just not so indoctrinated.  Panasonic 7-14 /4 has some distortion, but much of it is outside the area covered by this sensor.  That lens is almost free from breathing when thrown from its close focus mark to infinite focus.  Taking that a step further, the in water usable range behind an 8" dome is something like "just in front" of the 12" mark, and "just behind" the 12" mark.  I don't expect breathing can be demonstrated with this lens in water behind a dome port.

Maybe a big S16 zoom on your camera makes whoever hired you feel like they got their money's worth?

Arri Ultra 16 6mm might be worth sacrificing form factor over, though.  It is a pretty modern design, but I can't find and distortion info available on the web.

Would be sad to have a cinema camera limited to MFT lenses with all the quality issues.

What quality issues are you inferring, and are they perceptible on a 2mp image?  

Topside indie guys are excited to use megapixel resolution C mount glass with this camera, so I expect mFT will prove to be quite acceptable.

The only difference I see from the previous images is that the rear rotary wheel (for the rear rotary controller - which you don't need to use anyway as the arrow buttons do the same job) has gone and the top rotary wheel has moved closer to the edge.

Eliminating the rear rotary wheel helped space out all of the functions on the back of the camera better, and yields much better control access.  Presently that dial seems to be only useful in menu navigation, and redundant.

We make an adapter that allows Subal /3 ports to be mounted to this housing, called Zen PA-NM-S3.  

From there you can attach a number of Subal glass domes, Zen DP-100-S3 for Panasonic 8mm, etc.

We also have a 170mm dome (DP-170-NM).  The spacing of this port is actually built for NEX- cameras and their 16mm lens with conversions, but Chris is diving this now in the Bahamas with Olympus 9-18, and we have someone testing in Mexico with Panasonic 7-14, so I'm hopeful it will prove to be a good solution for micro four thirds as well.