What's the deepest you've taken a Canon D10 Waterproof Camera?

[johnnythailand]

I'm planning on buying the Canon D10 Waterproof Camera - I know it's only rated to 10 meters / 33ft

Has anyone taken it on a dive deeper than that? I'm wondering what will happen if I take it on a dive down to 12m-18m

 

[johnnythailand]

I just answered my own question, however, if anyone else has any experience diving with a Canon D10, I'd really like to hear it.

A few days ago I had a diver on my boat take his Canon D10 diving down to a max depth of 19 meters, and did three more dives down to 15 meters.

I checked the battery compartment and it was dry. I think we can safely say you can bring your Canon D10 on a shallow dive down to 18 meters / 60 ft, at least I plan to with my own.

Anyone else have any experience with it?

 

[Cero21]

I've taken my D10 to about 20m for the last 6 dives. No problems thus far!

 

[TunbleWeed]

hey, i was thinking of buying a canon d10 aswell as cases such as ikelite are bulky and way out of my price range,
deepest dives ive been doing have been around 15ish meters what you guys reckon? be safe to get one of these? if not any other suggestions?
cheers,

 

[driftwood]

As a general rule, you can take a housing down to twice its listed specs and be fine. Past that point, you are on your own and virtually guaranteed to fail at triple the specs.

The camera's seals may hold at 20m, but the display is very likely to distort at that depth.

 

[TunbleWeed]

sweet cheers ill have to think about it, is there any other set up around 400$ that has good quality shots? also the reason i liked the canon d10 is because it has the large flash above lens, would that be powerful enough at depths of 10ish meters?

 

[driftwood]

Not a chance. All the flash will do is give you crappy pictures due to backscatter. You have to get your strobe off the line of sight between you and your subject. That is why UW photographers have those insane looking arms on their cameras.

At 10m you will be better off turning your flash off. 10m is just about the limit for shots using available light. Deeper you start losing the "red" in your photos.

 

[johnnythailand]

The flash will work if you are very up close. Nudibranch's flash well, but moving fish do not.

The best way to take U/W photos without an expensive flash is by using a slate to white balance every few meters. It has made the biggest difference I've seen.

-Johnny

 

[TunbleWeed]

haha alright sweet cheers ill have to think about it