Ikelite beyond 60m/200ft...?

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Does anybody have any experience using Ikelite housings deeper than the rated 60m/200ft? Will the housing flex and let water in or the buttons get sticky at depth? I know aluminum housings are used with some success beyond their rated 100m/300ft, but with sticky buttons at times (some offer stronger springs).
 
I've had my Ikelite housing down to for my Sony A6400 down to ~78-80m multiple times. It wont leak (at least mine didn't) but depending on the design of your camera front buttons might be useless or get pressed in.

Honestly on my Ikelite housing the buttons on front panel seem to be unreliable past ~50m. I thought about sourcing stronger springs but I have not gotten that far so I just try to set whatever ISO / shutter / f-stop I want to shoot in which sucks.
 
Ikelite housings will compress to some extent at shallower depths than that, so you may have control issues even if the housing remains intact (which I'm pretty confident it would to at least 200 feet). I had to send them my R5 housing to adjust a couple of the top buttons like the video record button that was sitting too close to the camera and would compress into the button (pressing it continuously) at depths greater than 120 feet or so. It's not the springs, but the actual length of the button peg being too long as the plastic it sits in compresses inward a few mm, resulting in the peg hitting the camera with enough force to press the button and you have no way to un-press it.

I'd venture a guess that you probably won't have issues with anything on the rear of the housing because that's a big flat thick piece, but the curvy contoured bits on the front part of the housing seem to want to compress a bit when you go very deep.

That said, this can all probably be adjusted for with shorter button pegs if you're going to those depths routinely. It'd just change the feel a bit on shallower dives because you'd have to press some of the buttons a lot deeper to make contact with the camera.
 
Thanks.
I was looking into maybe housing an R10, but Nauticam and all the other brands making aluminum housings do not support that model. Only Ikelite do as far as I could find, and 60m/200ft max use is very limiting so I might just hold on a while longer to a Nauticam housed RX100V and not risk it.
 

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