from a different point of view (that of a cynical worst case scenario kind of person) leaving your camera inside the housing mmmm.... during transportation your housing is subject to all kind of push and shove, of thing being stacked next to it or on top of it etc, etc. while these push, shove and pressure applied to your housing are pretty innocents in themselves, (mostly due to the ruged aspect of housing, its an altogether story when you have a fragile camera inside, in effect what happen when you bang a control during transport is that it will transfer the kinetic energy to the camera and that the part I dont like. its safer IMO to carry your camera and housing in separate case. while on the subject, splitting both half of the housing will make it easier to put in a suit case, (I put the front in a suit case and the rear in the other suitcase, half a housing is worthless to a thief !)