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Thanks. I suspect banjar would know very well about this already...as in no way villagers can keep a haul this big a secret nor Banjar would not ask for a cut ;/ Sadly radio silence so far in there. But will see if I can somehow get through to them indeed, who knows. Yeah, Segara, locals fishing on the shore and throwing lines good 50m+ onto the dive site.

In case you see or are approached with a an offer for a Nauticam OM1 rig: About 2 months ago I have lost a whole OM1 rig during an underwater emergency while diving East Bali (Tulamben). Setup was slightly positive hence it was drifting in the water. Despite my and my friends efforts here, we have been met with a wall of silence from the local community, nobody had seen or found anything. Or so it had appeared. As it turns out, camera was very quickly found (or possibly fished out straight away, while we were still in the water, as it has disappeared suddenly while we were being bombarded with fishing lines from the shore). I was only able to recover the strobes + a couple of 70mm arms just yesterday, and that is only due to these being sold by a local who kept part of the "loot" (and urgently needed money for a religious ceremony) to another local who in turn brought it to a resident photographer here in Amed to help him clean and sell it (claiming it was a "gift from a guest"). Unfortunately according to him, the rest has been long smuggled to/via Jakarta for sale via extended family of some locals. Hence If you hear about any Nauticam OM1 being sold in the general APAC region (or could be beyond), the chances are it is this one... What is still missing: Nauticam: OM1 housing with M14 Vacuum Valve II Port 45 Extension ring 20 Diopter Holder Carbon Arms 90mm x2 Bayonet holders for 90mm arms x2 OM SYSTEM: OM1 body Olympus 60mm Macro lens with 3d printed zoom gear Turtle: o-TURTLE 2 SMART TTL trigger for Olympus / Panasonic ULCS: 4 short clamps 3 long clamps Mares: EOS 4rz torch with ball mount Inon UCL-165M67 diopter Misc: 2 black neoprene covers for the strobes Handmade bright orange strap with two xDeep snapbolts SABRENT Rocket V60 256GB UHS-II SD Card x2 1st picture of the whole rig below (from the fatal dive, taken by my teammate GoPro). 2nd picture from another dive with a 14-42/WWL configuration. It had a very distinctive orange strap on top (or what I now think of a perfect hooking up point for a fishing hook....). Naturally I do have serial numbers of most of the parts as well as invoices for those.

I've been coming to Bali (Amed) for years now, (now more or less living here), never had an issue. Similarly never heard about anybody else experiencing this, including folks coming over with fancy stuff like RED cameras.

Looks like another firmware update has just been released for OM1 Mk1: [ OM-1 ]Ver.1.9 (Nov.4.2025) The issue in version 1.8 where the live view images were occasionally not displaying properly has been resolved.

Firmware 1.8 for OM1 just hit the deck: [ OM-1 ]Ver.1.8 (Sep.10.2025) Sequential shooting SH2 50fps is now supported when using the M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 50-200mmF2.8 IS PRO lens. Improve stability of some functions.

Cloudflare thing is nothing unusual, a lot of websites use that to filter out bot traffic. Sometimes this triggers when you click too fast ;] Windows dunno, I am not using Defender (SEP here), hence never seen it. As for the filters +1 for what @bvanant said - I have tried multiple "cheap" ones, complete waste of money. But the ones from firedivegear deliver. And get TIffen 12 or BW (if only I could remember the number) filters for camera - one is more greenish one does excite more orange, like stone fish. Blue light matters as well. It is all about the wavelength baby. I can recommend checking out Horst Grunz website: https://www.uni-due.de/members/grunz/ Also attached is a PDF of various filters testing he did. FluoreszenzFilterFinalUSApdf.pdf

Probably the main thing that has cured me from the wretched disease - once I add strobes, lights, all small accessories, laptop and other crap that cannot be carried in the hold, then I am on 12-14kg already. With the "generous" 7kg hand baggage allowances airlines have nowadays that already means one sneaky check in with a giant puppy eyes and a smile as wide as a river. Adding another 4-5kg (or more, since ofc you need WACP and not WWL then) is just nope. Handling is no better - as it is heavier and bigger size wise, getting on/off a rib with swell, or diving in a current and dragging extra cylinders is just no way Jose. And another important aspect - my skills are nowhere near maxing out m4/3 capabilities. Getting FF at 3x the price (say for a1) would make barely any difference, kinda 80% of the cost for 20% of the quality situation...except here it would be more like few % max unless I would start suffering from a pixel peeping fetish. Better spend the funds on actual diving and practice using what I have. Sure for some real pro's out there this might make sense from a commercial point of view, but how many of those are out there? And they can usually take a better picture with a some basic compact (as in old, bottom of the barell etc, there are some real good choices out there too!) than most of us with a FF I suspect 🤣 So I am keeping my fingers crossed for OM System ;)

So "Housing" column refers to not just the body housing but also all "general" ports and stuff one would need to carry i.e. say macro/standard/WA/fisheye. "Camera" would be body + lenses corresponding to the ports choices in the "Housing" column. And "System" would be a sum of both. Basically my idea was to figure out how much crap I would need to carry travel wise and how does it compare to others. Strobes/arms/focus lights etc are excluded, and so are gadgets like viewfinders. There is also a separate table listing "System" values for each config. Each tab (Macro/Standard/WA/Fisheye) has a setup listed for each camera so lens, port, extensions, diopters and whatcha not for each config (so you can also edit and have the main table update on its own, well unless you insert things possibly, formulas are rather simple). Nauticam part numbers are also there. Of course this was based on my assumptions, there could be a better lens choices for some etc. And no wet lenses are included, so a bit outdated to some degree. All data refers to Nauticam, since they carried all the housings. Note that these are based on whatever I could find on the internet back then, did not have every part to actually weight it (Ha maybe this is an idea - all Waterpixies could contribute and we would have a nice shared Excel with all possible configs and actual weights...). For bodies I suspect some are w/battery, some without. OM1 seems without at 520g, though official weight is 599g with. Planned to add Aquatica but never really properly started on this one. Do not be afraid to open the Excel 😂

There you go. Did that a while ago, before I was permanently cured from the Full Frame disease. All will depend on the lens/port mostly, albeit housings tend to be heavier as well. Example below, full spreadsheet attached. A few basic formulas so you can update data on Macro, Standard, WA and Fisheye tabs and the main tables will magically auto update. It has pricing tables too, though numbers there are rather few years out of date. weight.xlsx

Thank YOU! It was a pleasure - glad that the light found a good home :)

Perfect, enjoy the light :)

And of course jam is always first, then the cream. Don't you dare to do it any different.

Aaaand sold to the gentleman wearing a beret and holding a baguette 😉

Aaach yes, it is never enough xD Thanks! Heading to Amed I am afraid...a little bit far, unless perhaps I manage catch some currents going in that direction. Might take a few days though.

Didn't you just come back from a trip? Don't complain, last time I went diving was in November... I am not getting out of the water, even If i have to sleep there, once I get to Indonesia next month ;)