Photo by Eric Hanauer

Ikelite Digital Housing for Olympus C50 The Olympus C50 is a miracle of miniaturization, a 5-megapixel digital camera that's tiny enough to slip in a pocket and take anywhere. It sacrifices some controls for point-and-shoot simplicity, but combined with Ikelite's digital housing, it's a no-hassle underwater system that's capable of high-resolution 8-by-10 prints. For the C50, only three controls are needed: mode dial, autofocus lever and shutter release. Composition is achieved through the LCD display on the back of the camera. It's like having a video monitor running all the time. With the configuration of the camera's on-off switch, images can't be reviewed until after the dive. Eric Hanauer