Question help choosing Housing for om1 mark ii

[BoltSnap]

saving $2K on a housing means I can buy more wine.

WINE not dive gear or camera stuff???? What's wrong with you????

 

[hypoxi]

Thanks everyone – this has been incredibly helpful, and I really appreciate all the responses!
I'm just glad I’m not in a position where I have to choose between gear and wine – working hard to have both!

 

[bvanant]

WINE not dive gear or camera stuff???? What's wrong with you????

Nothing a nice glass of wine won't help.
BVA

 

[Nemrod]

True, true, you will not likely service a Nauticam/Marelux/Isotta/Seacam/Subal et al yourself. The good news is they can run five years and hundreds of dives between $ervice.

 

[bvanant]

True, but hundreds of dives for us is a year and when a housing needs a tweak it is often on a boat in the middle of the ocean. I don't know anymore but I think service for a Nauticam mirrorless housing might be like $450 or so. In any case, knowing that you can do some work yourself is comforting (but maybe delusional).

Bill

 

[hypoxi]

In the EU, service for Nauticam and Isotta runs around $700 or €640 – definitely not a small amount, but if you spread it over 3–5 years, it’s not too bad. I just found a used Zuiko 8mm f/1.8 Fisheye PRO for a nice price, so now I’ve got even more things to think about

Right now I’m mostly leaning toward starting with the AOI housing and fisheye dome. But with Isotta, according to their port chart, I could use the same 6" acrylic or 6.5" crystal dome for both the 12–40 and the 8mm fisheye. That would mean one less port to buy initially, and if I compare that to going AOI with both a fisheye dome and dome for the 12-40, the pricing gets a bit closer.