Looking to buy a housing for the OM-5 Mark II who sells AOI housings. The AOI website does not sell ?

54 minutes ago, Marc Furth said:

Looking to buy a housing for the OM-5 Mark II who sells AOI housings. The AOI website does not sell ?

Backscatter seems to be the retailer selling the most of them but don't list it. The OM-5 II is listed as new on the AOI website. Maybe give Backscatter a call and see if they will be stocking it?

I also see on Backscatter that the Isotta housing is less than $300 more than the AOI, might be worth considering?

Mozaik also sells AOI. They may well buy it from Backscatter, since I think Backscatter is the North American distributor, but sometimes the retail prices are a bit better.

My experience with them is that the stuff shows up eventually, but it can be surprisingly frustrating trying to get order tracking information out of them. The main attraction for me is that they also ship from Canada, presumably not an issue for people not in Canada.

I can't be leave how much the housings have gone up in price. Ikelite looks like the best deal around.

6 hours ago, Marc Furth said:

I can't be leave how much the housings have gone up in price. Ikelite looks like the best deal around.

I would suggest looking into what lenses are supported and how they are before deciding, for example ikelite only sell 6 or 8 inch domes for fisheyes, no 4"offered and only have one flat port for all the macro lenses offered, which reduces working distance on the shorter lenses. Also check how you would go about attaching a WWL if you were interested in that option.

I have been looking for a good camera that does good white balance in shallow water. The Tg cameras are excellent. I have been using Nikon z50 and Cannon r10 cameras and find there not as good. I just bought the OM 5 II because it has a underwater white balance setting, will see how well it does. I'm not shooting RAW but I have with all my cameras.