By nature, choosing a camera is a compromise! My decision to buy the Olympus C8080WZ was both easy and difficult.

I really wanted a dSLR but did not want to carry all the lenses and ports when travelling; the decision was therefore to get the best compact digital that still offered some dSLR functionality - at the time, only the C8080WZ was anywhere close in my opinion.

Early on, my decision was to house my next camera in an Ikelite housing and also to use the Ikelite strobe system. The camera and strobe was required to "talk" TTL - once more, the C8080WZ came out number one.

I really also wanted a wide lens with dome port and although I would have preferred a wider lens to what Olympus offered for the C8080WZ, my decision was finally made.

My camera rig now has more than 10.000 shots in the bag and by now I would say I know the camera rig fairly well. It has its faults but no other than I had anticipated. Over time, I have learned to "adjust" to the "thinking" of the cameras "brains" and once I got there, the photos started to get fairly decent.