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I am selling an Olympus OMD EM-1 mark I camera body (black), Nauticam housing with vacuum system, Olympus 12-50mm lens with Nauticam zoom gear, 4 camera batteries with charger, 2 extra sets of housing o-rings, all instruction booklets/paperwork and original boxes. The camera body and housing were purchased in 8/15 and are in excellent shape both cosmetically and functionally. There are a couple of very superficial scratches on the housing (see photo) and on the LCD window (see photo). I just sent in the camera body to Olympus because the f/stop dial was sticking - it's been fixed and is working perfectly! The 12-50mm lens and zoom gear were purchased separately, used, from a very reputable underwater photographer about a year ago. I personally have never used them since I didn't have the port. Both are in excellent condition as well. Will sell all items listed above and shown below for $2750 and buyer pays shipping. BTW, I absolutely LOVE the EM-1 and am selling because I've upgraded to the mark II!!! If anyone is interested in photos, I have them but Wetpixel won't let me up load them - says "file was too big to upload." Not sure what's up with this, but these photos are from an iPhone!! Let me know....

Upgrading to the mk2. used for about 2 years, on a few trips. works perfectly and always soaked in distilled water at the end of a big trip. some scratches and chips but only cosmetic. Asking $1200 USD Shipped +$150 for vacuum valve Also have the camera body if anyone is interested.

Well after all the conversations here, I found a camera store that actually had the EM-5, the EM-1 and the GX7 in stock and available to play with. They only carry Panasonic lenses at the moment so I played with the 14-42 kit lens for the GX7 and the 8mm fisheye. As a current Canon 40D user, I was impressed by the compactness of all the cameras and lenses, though having said that, I was actually surprised to find that the GX7 was as big and beefy as it was. To make a long story short, they all impressed me. Three observations: 1) EVFs have come a long way. The one on the EM-1 is head and shoulders above the other two. The GX7's, which has gotten good reviews, I found to not be that much better than the EM-5 in practical use, though it is cool that it rotates up and down. One big difference is that the EM viewfinders are 4/3 aspect ratio, whereas the GX7's is 16x9. The Oly viewfinders crop the top and bottom when you switch to video. I think I like the Panny's diopter adjustment better than the teensy little knob on the Olys, though once set, it liklely wouldn't get moved, anyway, and the Panny's is easier to adjust by accident when you move the viewfinder. 2) I found the controls on the EM-1 to be less intuitive to a new user, whereas the EM-5 is a bit more intuitive and the GX7 is setup like what you'd expect from more of a rangefinder style. EM-1 felt to be in a different category of build quality from the EM-5. Panny felt very solid as well. 3) The GX7 has a pop-up flash -- the Oly's don't. They do come with a clip on miniflash but you have to remove two plastic pieces, one for the hotshoe and one for the mini-usb plug. I would probably lose at least one of those two little pieces in about 15 minutes. BTW -- I did also look at a 70D body. My 40Ds feel more solid, but it seemed OK. Definitely a size difference between it and the M43 cameras. The next thing will be to see what the housings look like and figure out the cost curve on trying to unload a bunch of Canon lenses (though I will likely keep my 100-400 and a 40D body for any fast action photos). If I do make the switch from Canon to M43, it will be for compactness above all else. Another point -- last year I bought a Sony RX100 and I use it for daily shooting now. But I don't think it would suit me for underwater based on its limited macro ability. In any event, the bottom line for me would be -- is the EM-1 viewfinder $500 better than the one on the EM-5 and GX7, do I really value the pop-up flash, and is there really that much practical diffefence in 2 vs 5 axis IBIS. Everything else is already documented on the review sites.