I received my Ikelite housing a week ago or so for my Canon S80. Do not buy this housing!!!!
Unless you are certain you will never use the manual controls to adjust things such as focus, aperature, shutter speed, and much else controllable through the S80 wheel/button control on the back of the camera. Functionality that is ok is, zoom and shutter release (taking the picture). So, if you know you will never want to get the most out of your camera and will always use automatic settings, this housing may give you the benefit of going beyond 40m. Otherwise, even though it employs the amazing Ikelite standards in locking mechanisms, nice shutter release controls, and durability, this housing is absolutely disfunctional.
I have never dealt with Ikelite before and was appalled by the customer service I received over the last couple months on various interests and concerns. That involved a total of four personnel. In the end they have agreed to take back the housing, but it seemed like a huge deal and definately far from customer satisfaction comes first. They persisted to give repeated robotic responses such as, "We want to give access to all the features, therefore sometimes the buttons have to be close." This response came no matter what I said, specifically not making sense when I was saying, "There is no means of hitting those buttons while holding the camera trying to line up a shot, because you have put big knobby buttons in the way and nestled the buttons deep on the opposite side of them. Also, you gave access to the wheel on the back with the big knob but it duals as a button. If you are controlling the wheel you will regularly inadvertently trigger the button and vice-versa." I emphasized that it does not work and can not work, yet the robotic response remained that this was justified by the requirement to have all features. Well, excuse me but if you put controls in a manner that you can not control the features, then is that not the equivalent to not having the buttons? The response didn't seem to comprehend that.
Canon overcame these problems because they were aware that you do not require the wheel to change values. Instead there is a combo button sequence (one button held while pressing the left and right button equating to wheel clockwise and counter-clockwise).
It is really a shame, because other than this housings specific layout of controls, I see that the product is exceptional in other regards. I was planning on sticking with them for a video housing. But the customer service interaction was really a challenge to remain sympathetic for them.
The shark in the other one is awesome!
