Canon Waterproof Case WP-DC10 for Powershot SD100 & SD110

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 4.3 x 3.7 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000AUR26
• Item model number: 7653A0001
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 31, 2003

Product Description

From the Manufacturer
The optional All-Weather Case is designed to protect your PowerShot SD100 and SD110 in places it's likely to get wet the beach, the rain or even under 9.8 feet of water! Capture those underwater shots or use worry-free during inclement weather. Case also provides protection from sand, dirt and dust. Waterproof to 100ft. Allows full access to camera controls, with crystalline transparency for astonishingly detailed underwater images.

Product Description
You can use Waterproof Case WP-DC10 to take underwater shots at depths of up to 40 meters (130 feet), and of course it's ideal for taking worry-free pictures in the rain, at the beach, or on the ski slopes.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works well, Durable, Can Take a Beating, May 31, 2005

By	Chris Stankis "bluewavechris" (Maui, Hawaii) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought the SD110 camera, and since I live in Hawaii, I HAD to have the underwater housing for it. This housing is great, because it allows you to use all the function buttons while the camera is protected in the housing.

You can power up the camera, shoot, zoom, change modes and do everything but change the battery, change the memory card and upload your pics onto a computer while the camera is sealed up.

I was able to take lots and lots of underwater and surf pictures and movies with this camera. And I was very happy with the results.

I treat my gear pretty rough, I was in the water almost every day, not cleaning it all the time and although the housing did get scratched and a little banged up, it still worked great, and it didn't affect the quality of my photos.

Then one day while rescuing a swimmer in distress, the camera was knocked off my kayak into the ocean. I went back a few minutes later to search for it. But was unable to find it....I was really bummed.

Four months later, a friend of a friend is diving in the same area that I lost the camera, and saw something wedged in the reef, encrusted with coral and alge. He pulled it out and took it back up on the boat-it was a digital camera in the housing. When he opened up the housing and took out the camera.....it powered right up !!!!

So he took a few shots on the boat and then took the camera home. He showed it to his friend, and they flipped through the pictures as he told him the story of finding it. One of the pictures that I had taken on the day I lost it, was an underwater self portrait. When my friend saw that: he knew who's camera it was !!!

So he calls me...and tells me the story. I was amazed. We figured that the camera and housing had been lying on the bottom for four months in over twenty feet of water, and there had been a few storms that had produced some very large surf in that area, so it had likely taken a beating. But it still maintained its water tight integrity. We were all very amazed at how durable it turned out to be !!

I had already replaced the camera with the Canon S500 and it's dedicated housing (mostly so I could get higher resolution photos). After uploading the photos onto my computer, I let the guy who found it keep it. He has cleaned up the housing, and it stays still water tight, the only thing wrong with it (besides a little surface crud on the exterior of the casing), is that a few of the buttons are jammed and so they do not work (the zoom, shutter and power buttons are fine). But not bad at all for a camera that had been on the bottom of the ocean for several months.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More reasons to dive, September 6, 2005

By	B. Porter "Marina Diver" (San Francisco, Ca USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I'm really impressed, I bought the SD-110 a year ago as a quick small digital for trips. I was never planning to take it diving. The housing is really impressive, I've done 4 dives in the month I have had the waterproof case (WP-DC10) and it works great.

I was so excited to try it out I went in the water with a full memory card. I got down to about 35ft and took my first picture and "Memory card full". It was easy to navigate all the buttons and I was able to delete while following my buddy. Taking pictures of fast moving fish doesn't work out and the range of the flash is 1-3ft. My deepest dive so far was 109ft off the Monterey coast, and I worked as if it were in 10ft of water.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceeded expectations, August 30, 2005

By	ShutterBug (Oklahoma, USA) - See all my reviews

Canon makes a great underwater housing for a reasonable price. I purchased this for a recent trip to Grand Cayman and Cozumel. I didn't go Scuba diving on this trip, but I did take the camera snorkeling (diving to depths ~20ft). It worked flawlessly and I got some pictures I was very happy with! One thing I did not anticipate was the use the camera got out of the water. Going from AC to the hot humid outdoors, my EOS rebel fogged up (condensation) and even after 30 minutes I couldn't take good pictures. With the SD110 in the UW housing, I just wipped the housing's glass portal with a lens tissue after it had warmed up a couple of minutes and I was able to take clear pictures.

The instructions are pretty good, but it took me a while to figure out how to take out the O-ring seal for cleaning/lubing. Once I figured it out, it wasn't so hard.

The SD110 may be getting a little old, but it still takes decent pictures and even with the housing I don't have so much money tied up in the system that I would be devestated if it was lost or stolen. I will probably upgrade to the SD550 or SD500 (they both use the same batteries as the SD110) with the WP-DC80 or WP-DC70 housing at some time in the near future, but I will definitely keep the SD110 and WP-DC10 as backups.