Sneak Peak: AOI UH-EM1III

Got the Pen / OMD port adapter from Backscatter; it's a pretty clever design- kudos to AOI for solving this engineering challenge.  Shockingly in this day and age, the price was pretty reasonable, too.  The only bummer is that I can't get my Panasonic 8-18 to fit.  As I noted in the post above, zoom gears are mounted backwards compared to the usual fashion, and- at least with the 12-40- the gear mounts from the lens toward the base.  I use a Deepshots zoom gear for the 8-18, and while it reverses to the new orientation easily enough, it is ever so slightly too fat to fit through the port adapter.  I'll see if I can find a friend with a lathe and turn it down enough to fit, but I have to admit it's tempting to use this as an excuse to get the Oly 8-25...

On 8/20/2022 at 8:30 PM, Wapiti said:

Got the Pen / OMD port adapter from Backscatter; it's a pretty clever design- kudos to AOI for solving this engineering challenge.  Shockingly in this day and age, the price was pretty reasonable, too.  The only bummer is that I can't get my Panasonic 8-18 to fit.  As I noted in the post above, zoom gears are mounted backwards compared to the usual fashion, and- at least with the 12-40- the gear mounts from the lens toward the base.  I use a Deepshots zoom gear for the 8-18, and while it reverses to the new orientation easily enough, it is ever so slightly too fat to fit through the port adapter.  I'll see if I can find a friend with a lathe and turn it down enough to fit, but I have to admit it's tempting to use this as an excuse to get the Oly 8-25...

Can you please share some images of the housing and the adapter.

Please and thanks.

I mainly use my Olympus 12-45mm lens underwater with a AOI semidome port and their flip adapter.  Can I use the Olympus zoom gear in the new AOI housing without the adapter if I use the pen size port instead of the OMD port I own today? Dont know if the teeth and size will fit.

13 hours ago, Dann-Oh said:

Can you please share some images of the housing and the adapter

Yes, but I'm leaving on a trip later this week so it'll be a while as I'm super busy trying to get everything taken care of.  This video from AOI's facebook page does a pretty good job of illustrating how the system works, though- probably better than I could do:

https://www.facebook.com/AoiUw/videos/634068084436591

10 hours ago, aquaticexplorer said:

I mainly use my Olympus 12-45mm lens underwater with a AOI semidome port and their flip adapter.  Can I use the Olympus zoom gear in the new AOI housing without the adapter if I use the pen size port instead of the OMD port I own today? Dont know if the teeth and size will fit.

Sorry, don't know- if I had to guess, the teeth are probably fine but their newest port chart only shows the 12-45 working with the port adapter.