Waterproof Digital Camera Housings

A generic waterproof digital camera housing is a water-tight skin designed to fit a variety of digital camera makes and models. Most popular digital camera manufacturers produce a dedicated underwater digital camera housing to fit an individual camera model, if not a series. Generic ones, however, will fit a variety of cameras.

Advantages

Being able to fit a number of digital cameras has some key benefits:

• The price is lower, because the manufacturer does not need to design a new
  product for each new shape of camera that is released.
• If you own more than one digital camera you might be able to use both of them
  with the one case.
• If you upgrade your camera you might be able to retain the same case.

Disadvantages

But like everything there are pros and cons. The main disadvantages are:

• They are not designed as snuggly as a dedicated camera housing. They are simply
  a waterproof bag, and do not extend the cameras controls through the housing
  to external buttons and levers.
• They are typically made of a flexible plastic, compared to the hard and durable
  polycarbonate resins that dedicated housings are often made of.
• It is a little more difficult to evaluate which is the right case for your camera.

It is important that when looking for a housing that your camera actually fits inside. If you stick with a popular brand then the retailer you purchase the housing from should provide a list of camera models that will fit, or at least the maximum dimensions of the camera that can fit inside.

Brands

The major brands of waterproof camera cases include:

• DiCaPac
• Aquapac
• Aqua Case
• Dry Pak

Where to Purchase

You can purchase these cases from a number of online retailers, including Amazon.

Posted on Sunday, August 16th, 2009 at 1:04 am and under underwater digital camera housing, waterproof camera cases category.