AOI Port System For Olympus Pen Housings

Staff · Issue 88, Jan/Feb 2016 · pp. 36–38

Products mentioned: AOI port system, Olympus PT-EP05, Olympus PT-EP06, Olympus PT-EP08, Olympus PT-EP10, Olympus PT-EP11, Olympus PT-EP12, Olympus PT-EP13, AOI AD-LP-01 port adaptor, Olympus 12-50mm lens, Olympus 9-18mm lens, Olympus 60mm macro lens, Olympus 8mm Pro lens, Panasonic 8mm lens, Panasonic 45mm macro lens, Panasonic 7-14mm lens, Zen Underwater ports, Inon UCL-165 dioptre lens, AOI RK-01 button replacement kit, Olympus PPO-EP02 port

Olympus is a weird sort of company. Some of the stuff they bring out is brilliant and then the next design can be downright bizarre. A good example is their underwater housings, especially the mirrorless camera ones. It’s almost like there are two guys fighting at the top about where to take the housing designs next. There are many examples, including a funny port light system that only appeared in one housing and then got forgotten. Another good example is the PEN port system. Olympus can’t seem to make their minds up what kind of ports to use with their housings. It just makes no sense. Randomly some housings use the larger aperture port system and the rest the smaller, which the company does not even officially support at all… and do not even think should be changed…although it can be… trust me, it’s a mess. Luckily there are a few 3rd party companies that have come to the rescue. For…