This is the first time going to bonaire. I am a SCUBA diver and I am interested in underwater phtography. I am wondering whether I should buy a reusable UW camera or spend the money and buy a housing for my olympus digital. What is the picture quality for a film camera like ones on this page.
http://scuba.com/shop/product.asp?category=420
PLease let me know!

Welcome Ben.

This one's easy, get the case for the Olympus. No brainer, you will be much happier. The Olympus case will cost from $150-$250 depending on your model. You will save money/frustration on your first trip and as a bonus you will be starting up the learning curve on UW photography.

Get the housing, then most everything else is free.

Ben, get a housing for your Oly! You'll love it!

Get the housing but then you will want a strobe but do it step wise. Learn without the strobe and then move up.
One hint try night dives and small crearures/objects. Your internal strobe will do a good job.

Also Jeff Farris has some good articles on digitaldiver.net that really helped me. I especially like his information on changing the camera presets so you are ready to shoot when you get underwater. In theory you can change things underwater but in practice you want to do as little of that as possible. He has one article dedicated to shooting olympus without a strobe.

Well it turns out that my cameras model seems to be the ONLY one without housing, D-540 Zoom. If anyone knows about housing for this please let me know.

They do a cheap solution for the D-540, I hope the camera is not expensive. See http://camerasunderwater.co.uk/d_stills/olympus/finder_.html

any one actually ever used one of those ziplock (ewa marine) housings? good to 10 meters? looks like more of a snorkler's option;)

might just do the trick however - be sure to test it with a sandwich or something first;)

I have used one years ago for a 35 mm SLR. It did work but the camera stayed dry, but only snorkeling. Those bags will not work diving, the pressure will either hurt the camera on make it inoperatable at depth.

does anyone know of housing for the olympus D-540 zoom? Im hoping that the housing for a different model will fit...does anyone have this camera?