# Need help form Japanese Dopers
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-form-japanese-dopers/159743
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [March 7, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-form-japanese-dopers/159743 "2003-03-07T16:45:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-form-japanese-dopers/159743/1 "2003-03-07T16:45:23Z")
I purchased an Olympus digital camera for my wife for Christmas, and for her birthday she received the underwater housing that fits the camera so that we can take it diving. The seller of the housing ([Underwaterdigital.com](http://Underwaterdigital.com)) gets them from Japan and then sells them here (US). The housings are in their original packaging with Japanese instructions.
I contacted Olympus through their web site to get English instructions, and I received a reply that Olympus America does not support the product. I tried the Olympus Japan website, but it is (not suprisingly) also in Japanese. I’m hoping that one of the Japanese Dopers can get an English-language set of instructions from Olympus Japan.
It is an Olympus PT-010 camera housing.
Thanks for any help.
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### Author:  [@irae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irae)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-form-japanese-dopers/159743/2 "2003-03-07T19:08:01Z")
You might check the Olympus forum at [www.dpreview.com](http://www.dpreview.com).
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### Author:  [@Bongmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bongmaster)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-form-japanese-dopers/159743/3 "2003-03-07T22:00:09Z")
Or you can use a translation website:
[http://world.altavista.com/](http://world.altavista.com/)
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### Author:  [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-form-japanese-dopers/159743/4 "2003-03-07T22:30:14Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Bongmaster \*
> \*\*Or you can use a translation website:
>
> [http://world.altavista.com/](http://world.altavista.com/) \*\*
To do what? Type in ~30 pages of Kanji characters?
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### Author:  [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-form-japanese-dopers/159743/5 "2003-03-08T05:14:01Z")
You apparently didn’t actually go to the site of the link. Try it.
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### Author:  [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2003, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-form-japanese-dopers/159743/6 "2003-03-08T05:41:52Z")
There’s a Japanese instruction page here:
[http://clubcamedia.com/marine/showroom/pt010/index.html](http://clubcamedia.com/marine/showroom/pt010/index.html)
The five blue buttons at the bottom are links to instruction pages. It’s not the full manual, just the “getting started” guide, but it’s probably enough. Cut-and-paste the links into the AltaVista translation engine.
You might also try sending e-mail to the European office of Olympus. If those don’t help, let me know again and I’ll try calling Olympus Japan.
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### Author:  [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2003, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-form-japanese-dopers/159743/7 "2003-03-09T00:42:49Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Cardinal \*
> \*\*You apparently didn’t actually go to the site of the link. Try it. \*\*
I would not have said what I did if I hadn’t gone to the site linked. I have, as I said, a 30 page **printed** manual in Japanese. I do not have a Japanese character set installed, which would require using escape codes for each character. I have no electronic version that would work with altavista – hence my question.
Thankfully, **scr4** read my post accurately and provided the requisite electronic text. I will try that, and I appreciate your help. Thanks also to **irae** for suggesting an alternate resource.
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### Author:  [@jblack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jblack)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-form-japanese-dopers/159743/8 "2003-03-09T01:21:25Z")
Here is another guide (in German and English) that might be of some help:
[http://www.divezone.ch/DOWNLOAD/PDF/Olympus\_PT-010\_Anleitung.pdf](http://www.divezone.ch/DOWNLOAD/PDF/Olympus_PT-010_Anleitung.pdf)
You’ll need [Acrobat Reader](http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html) to view the file, if you don’t already have it installed.
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### Author:  [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-form-japanese-dopers/159743/9 "2003-03-10T17:08:36Z")
Yeeha!! That’s it!
**jblack** , enter the Hall of Fame. A first post that provides a definitive answer is some debut. Welcome to the SDMB.
Thanks again!