12-40 Dome port possibility for OMD housings

[sillyrabbit]

It's worse than a hassle - you can put it together, but you literally cannot take it apart; people have gotten stuck that way, since there is no easy way to push the lens release button on the camera while it's in the housing. You have to get a thin, long and stiff piece of metal, bend it in just the right way and use it to reach around the camera body and hunt around blindly for the lens release button.

OMG. Not fun at all!

 

[rmorgan]

It's worse than a hassle - you can put it together, but you literally cannot take it apart; people have gotten stuck that way, since there is no easy way to push the lens release button on the camera while it's in the housing. You have to get a thin, long and stiff piece of metal, bend it in just the right way and use it to reach around the camera body and hunt around blindly for the lens release button.

Yikes! The Nauticam housings have lens-release buttons.

 

[Barmaglot]

Yikes! The Nauticam housings have lens-release buttons.

So do the newer AOI ones, but the older AOI and Olympus housings lack them. Notably, AOI have two versions of the E-PL10 housing - the older one, that Backscatter have been marketing for a few years now, can mount the PEN to OMD port adapter but doesn't have a lens release button, so it's a trap for the unwary. The newer version fixes this shortcoming.

 

[Caolino]

View attachment 368351 View attachment 368352Here you go- the dive is at 12mm and f2.8, the clam siphon is at 40mm and f3.5. Both are OOC jpegs so you can get a since of what the corners look like. Viz when I took the clam shot was probably around 4', so you'll have to excuse the backscatter

Can you please post a picture of the housing with the flat port you are using in this configuration? I understand you need the extension but which flat port? Thanks

 

[Furnari]

I sold the flat port, and don't have any pics of it on the housing. But, I have some info in this thread:

OMD, 12-40, and the Oly PPO-E02 flat port

When I was researching the 12-40 lens, I couldn't find a lot of information about using it underwater in the Olympus OMD housings. It's an amazing piece of glass, so I gave it a shot anyways. The Olympus port charts show the 12-40 with the 4/3 PPO-E02 port and an adapter; I managed to score a...

scubaboard.com

...and there's one shot of the port. No extensions were needed with the 12-40, just the adapter to go from 4/3 ports to OMD ports. Unless you have one, you're much better off with a dome port IMHO.