- Take great underwater shots or protect your camera from the elements
- Waterproof to 100 feet
- Neck strap and silicone grease included
- Models: S30, S40, S45
Product Description
Item #: 304436. You need to take your Canon camera with you on a business trip or a holiday and you’re uncertain whether it’ll be okay? Well, Canon has an answer for you, providing you with the cases for your cameras. This waterproof case is designed specifically to contain and protect, while allowing easy reach and function even deep under the water. Product Description: Canon WP DC300 – marine case for digital photo camera
Product Type: Marine case for digital … More >>
Canon WP-DC300 Waterproof Case for S30, S40, S45 and S50 Digital Cameras
I purchased the WP-DC700 underwater case for my A70 and followed the directions exactly, oiling the gasket and cleaning it after each use. It leaked and ruined my month old camera. Customer service was rude, blamed me and then tried to bargain with me to fix it for $190 instead of the $280 that they initially requested. The underwater case has a 7 DAY WARANTY and the camera is not covered for water damage. My father had a similar problem with his $1000 Nikon digital which just stopped working for no aparent reason, they claimed it was water damage and tried to bargain with him to buy a rebuilt one for $500. So beware of bad customer service. Canon’s customer service has all bad unreasolved reviews at the Better business Bureau
Rating: 1 / 5
The housing is very good one ,haveing a very nice shape, and very easy to use it
Rating: 5 / 5
I took this unit diving. After 5 dives, at 60′ in dead calm conditions and with careful maintenance, it leaked badly enough to destroy my camera. I cleaned everything and tried it again with the destroyed camera on a later dive. Same results.
Canon refused to cover ANYTHING.
Do NOT buy this as a diving housing. It will cost you your camera fairly quickly, with no possibility of compensation.
Rating: 1 / 5
I am a Scuba instructor and I own a Nikonos V, a Sea&Sea MX-10 and an Ikelite housing for my Pentax PZ-1 SLR. I wanted to move to digital photography for my Underwater Photography classes. (I am NOT an expert. I am NOT a professional photographer. I teach the intro course.) I also needed to reduce the weight of the gear I was hauling to the Caribbean. The Canon S30 with the DC300 housing lets me do just that. I added an Ikelite Substrobe DS50. (If you want to use an external strobe, you REALLY need to get one that is specially made for digital. Normal strobes don’t work!)
I taught a class of high school students to do Underwater Photography last spring with this rig. I used it myself last summer on my own vacation trip. I’m using it again this summer in preference to my other rigs. We were all able to take remarkably good pictures and see the results using my laptop during lunch. I really liked being able to give feedback on the student’s technique while s/he still remembered taking the picture. No waiting for developing.
(We also were able to take remarkably bad pictures as well. The delay between pushing the shutter release and actual snappage of the picture is Especially Annoying!)
As with any underwater photography gear, meticulous care and cleaning is necessary. That said, I found this particular rig very easy to maintain and very easy for my students to learn how to maintain and use.
Rating: 5 / 5
Works superbly and is completely water tight. Took it down to 90+ feet and had no issues whatsoever. Fit my camera and everything worked like a charm. To those that had issues with fogging, read around. I never used the anti fog and never had an issue but I read around and saw that people were taking the silica gel from dry goods and putting it into the enclosure with the camera and that fixes any moisture that gets in which also prevents fog. I did have fogging after one dive because I had to open the case to swap out the battery which caused moisture from my semi wet hands to leak in. Before I went down on second dive 30 minutes later, fog cleared up and no more moisture.
PROS-
-Works superbly (aka does what it was designed for)
-Fits camera great
CONS-
-Actually I’ll start out with a knock on the camera but it is VERY relevant to this enclosure. I have S50 and it does NOT have underwater mode. Colors gets completely lost without a flash or if subject is too far away. That said, spend the extra bucks and get a different camera that has underwater mode and the enclosure that goes with it. FYI, the SD line has Underwater mode.
-Button graphics on camera hard to see with enclosure on. You MUST memorize and know what buttons does what before placed into enclosure.
-[Not as much of a con any more.. See comment] Cannot turn camera off once it is inside enclosure. This wastes TONS of battery power. Had to constantly swap out batteries after every dive. (”Sky and SCUBA” mentioned that you can put the camera manually in sleep mode by pushing “the WB/FUNC button for more than 5 seconds”. Naturally even after doing this, you should probably switch batteries after each dive anyway but this would have been handy to know for the longer shallow dives.)
Conclusion
If you are just going snorkeling and won’t go below 15′, this is an idea solution. Color loss isn’t bad at all at that depth and photoshop can bring back any color lost. Also this is an idea solotion if you have a camera that fits this enclosure and can’t afford a better camera. Again I have to mention my suggestion that if you have the money, go with a camera that supports underwater mode instead then buy the enclosure that fits it even if you are just snorkeling.
Rating: 5 / 5