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| Originally Posted by Ferg3333 Ikelite make good housings, a bit more expensive at £200 but all the buttons are glanded and servicable whereas the canon ones cannot be serviced. I got the ixus 75 and corresponding housing |
Good point, although I'm unsure of what you mean by "glanded". I also quite agree with Mike that camera systems should be a tad positively buoyant for the reasons he gives but also, coming from the hugely heavy Nikonos RS AF, I've had it up to HERE with u/w camera systems which largely replace your weight belt.
Ikelite allows wet lenses to be attached to their housings, most manufacturer supplied housings don't (they're too small) and, trust me, you will want a wide angle wet lens to fit to the front. An Inon <http://inonamerica.com/products.php?prodcat=2> one sounds good to me.
I have a "bit of a paper" on the Digigreen Board (being fiddled with at the moment so I can't give you the actual URL) on O Ring and general maintenance care:
<http://www.digigreen.net/forums/>
Someone wrote that a scratched lens can be a disaster, or something like that. This is not necessarily the case, water often gives such a good "fill" that the scratch is not discernible. It IS however a disaster if the scratch is within the housing because air is not that co-operative.