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Originally Posted by Jonny250
I have a G9 with Canon Housing; remember that the canon housing does not allow you to change the speed, apature or custom setting once the camera is inside the housing...
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I used to have a G7 till few months ago housed in a Canon DC-11. I have to disagree with you on this since I believe both G7 and G9 are quite the same. You can change all the functions that are usually modified by turning the wheel on the back of the camera. You do that by simultaneously pressing the upper left button on the back of the camera and then you use the "arrow" buttons. It's written in the instruction of the housing, I believe. I was shooting predominantly in shutter priority mode...
In fact you can use wet lenses with G9. With Ikelite you can attach the Ikelite wet lenses and filters. The Canon housing was a problem due to the oval shaped port, until independent manufacturers started providing lens mounts for the DC11 and DC21.
Here's one by FIT:
F. I. T M67 Mount Base DC11/21 for Canon WP-DC11/WP-DC21 #M67-DC21
What you can use with it are the Inon 67mm macro lenses. You could attach also a wide angle wet lens, but it's rather pointless due to vignetting problems. To avoid vignetting you have to zoom the camera - that kills the effect of the wide lens to a great extent...
Ikelite has one enormous advantage - it has built in circuitry for using Ikelite external strobes in TTL mode. With Canon you can use only slave strobes fired by the built-in flash, which always causes backscatter problems, no matter what they tell you, and you have to adjust strobe exposure manually.
Some photos I made with the G7 -
Flickr: Secuencia de fotos de Spearfish
Cheers!
