S100 with Meikon housing

[timz]

If you are using internal flash with a poly-carbonate housing it is very difficult (almost impossible) to not have the housing fog, especially the Canon/Meikon which tend to fit snug.

Ikelite is probably slightly better as their is a larger volume inside the housing, but for the extra money I ended up going down the aluminium route and never have any fogging issues now.

If you are finding specific buttons leak, an issue which I had, where you would get a few drops in the housing, I found applying some extra silicon grease on the shaft (inside & out) helped a little.

Yeah.... i later found out that there was a drop of water in the housing. I changed all the orings of the dial and buttons and the main oring with grease. Didn't fog after that.

 

[Tippytoes12]

I am now on my second S110 ...with the first I had frequent fogging. This was due , I'm sure to not being careful enough when changing the battery on day trips. The camera heats up a lot so even one drop will cause fogging. Another time I cleaned the O ring and did not put enough silicone on it. This camera died on the third day of a 3 week trip.

You do need to look after it very well, which I try to do now. At the end of a day I check all rings for grains of sand , hairs or any foreign bodies. I have a second hand S110 in a new Canon housing and on our last trip it went really well.

They are wonderful little cameras.

 

[dfx]

Just a little update on the meikon housing for the S100.

On the previous dives trip, the housing still fogs. And she also realized some leaks. Didn't flood the camera though. So, i took back the housing and changed all the little orings on the back cover.

While changing the o-rings. I realized the stem of the "menu" button corroded. I cleaned the stem, greased it well, replaced the orings.

I didn't manage to change to orings for the front dial, zoom dial and the shutter button. Send it to pressure test until 2 bar(equiv = 20m) everything was okay statically. I didn't manage to press the button during the pressure test.

Then we went for our dive at Tenggol Island 2 weeks ago. Still, there was fogging problem when we went down to 28m. And the issue was caused by leaking again. And now, the shutter button.

For S100 model, i was looking at ikelite housing as a replacement for her. Somehow, i went through alot of post and negative comments on the ikelite housing specifically for this S100 model. Buttons weren't aligned properly. Stucked buttons on below 30m. Zoo.trigger isn't spring centered and etc.

So, i think i'm going to change the oring for the remaining button and stick with the housing...

Can you give some pointers on how to go about doing maintenance on the button/dial o-rings? I've had the same thing happen. S100 Meikon housing in use for several years without problem, but eventually some of the button stems started showing corrosion and they got leaky. I thought the buttons weren't made to be services so I tossed the housing and got a new one.

 

[diver 85]

You'll probably get what you paid for-------in the long run........I'd get a real one...........but----that's just me......