DiCAPac WP-S10 Pro DSLR Camera Series Waterproof Case

I was a little apprehensive buying this, as I imagine you are too, after looking at all the negative reviews; But here's the deal. You get what you pay for. It's not a professional, underwater rig that will allow you to get a flawless shot every time. But it is also NOT a spawn-of-satan contraption designed to murder your expensive camera. DOES IT WORK? Instead of just signing myself into an insane asylum by throwing my DSLR into a modified Ziplock bag and tossing it into a pool, I did numerous tests by putting paper towel in the bag and submerging the the device in a pool for various amounts of time. After the paper towel repeatedly emerged dry, I took a deep breath and put my camera in the housing with much trepidation. Once opened and examined, all was found to be dry, safe, and in perfect working order. I have done about ten total tests of this housing using different lenses and settings and still have a working, fully functional canon T5i! So worry yourself not! If you properly test your product and follow the directions, you should have no issues with the safety of your camera. IS IT USEABLE? That's a tricky question to answer. Frankly, it is VERY difficult to operate under water. (It's difficult to operate out of water too). Your manual control is limited as there are only three finger ports in the housing and they don't really help a whole lot. The bag is also very hard to manhandle under the water. Imagine you've put your camera in an inflatable pool floaty and are trying to swim under water with it. Let's just say it's a good cardio work out. I would recommend getting some cheap wrist or ankle weights and putting them in the bag along with your camera to help even out the weight and also to help keep your camera positioned properly in the bag. WHY THE 5 STARS? Like I said: You get what you pay for. It does what it advertises. With this, you can get footage underwater without losing your $700 camera. Is it professional? No. Does it work? Yes. I'm happy with it.

Update September 14 2019. I am back in Maui and am using the same housing from my review last year. It sat for 9 months without being used and is still performing well. No leaks Last year used my Pentax KP with 17-50 tamron and this year I am using tamron 28-70 it is a bit longer than the other lens so fits a bit better I have not gone more than about 8 feet deep on this trip so far and have been out 5 times already . The last four images are from this trip Update 22 November 2018 . I have now used this in the ocean 8 times in 2 weeks and not a drop of a leak. I have dove down to 10-15 feet while snorkeling and all has been good. I have not stratched the lens viewpoint glass but I just rinse it with fresh water and keep that part covered with a cloth when storing. I received this for my birthday and told my wife today it has been one of my most useful presents. I have added additional pictures taken using this digipac I followed the instructions and first tried this in a pool then moved to the ocean. Each time I use it I am very methodical on ensuring I close it up properly. I have gone close to 16 feet but for 5-10 secs at a time We Remember your putting a 1000 dollar or more DSLR in at 70 dollaR bag. This waterproof housing is nice for snorkeling to get good quality images. I use a Tamron 17-50 lens with this on my Pentax KP. I am able to use the zoom though a bit awkward. Camera Autofocus continues to work well. If I were to point out a design areas concern it is that the finger slot for working the shutter is probably the point of waterproof failure I would be concerned about Be careful that you are not swimming putting your force through the shutter finger hole. Would have like to see that rubber area be more robust

Edit 09/12/14 Reading this review, consider I was shooting with a old Nikon D200 I came back from vacation two weeks ago and I've had time to filter through my 1800 photos from Puerto Rico. about 600 of them were in the water, around the water or under the water... Here are my thoughts. The product itself was nice... I love the quality and it did the job in terms of keeping the product dry dry dry! I mean my camera was DRYYYYYYYYY!!! I mostly used a my Tokina 12-24mm because most tutorials for underwater shooting said to use your widest lens when under water... So thats what I did, I also tried my Nikon 50mm but that proved cumbersome. To shoot with this thing will take practice and LOTS of skill. I was in Puerto Rico I shot underwater in a pool, at the Crashboat Beach, Jobos Beach, Guilligans Island and Parque Colon. Setting it up was fairly simple I put the camera in lens down and twisted it to get the lens where it belongs. you have the option of removing the from cap to get the lens on that way. Make sure the cap is tight and your seals are sealed! Now lets jump in the ocean! Ok going underwater is a pain in the arse! Make sure you squeeze as much air out of this thing as possible, otherwise it dubs as a floating device and it's a pain in the arse to get it underwater. Even with all the air squeezed out, it was hard for me to hold it underwater and shoot any fish or coral or anything! Eventually I'd take a short hard dive into the shallow water, aim at the fish and shoot away, hoping I'd catch something... Out of all my photos 500 were probably UNDER WATER with a high shutter speed, ISO 600/800, flash On/Off, I tried just about everything to get that ONE perfect shot that I could brag about. Also holding the lens piece back was a pain in the arse and I ended up scratching the lens cap with my lens and then the bag is pulling you up towards the surface, and you're trying to shoot this moving creature underwater it just all becomes so crazy, even shooting the kids underwater was a game of chance. I'll keep the product because it's the best product available under $1,000.00 and I wouldnt want any of my friends to spend their money on it until they borrow and test mine. The deepest the bag and camera went was about $5 feet but again the bag just pulls you right back up. Whatever The package came when it was supposed to and looks pretty good. However it failed the first test last night and the paper was towards the front of the bag was wet. This is concerning. I leave to vacation in 2 days and was really looking forward to testing this product. When you put your camera inside. the bag will float no matter how much air you try to squeeze out of the bag so I would recommend adding some weight to the inside when you go underwater. I put 7 pounds of weight into the bag and some paper towels, I (think) closed the front cap securely, I sealed it, rolled down the flap and sealed both velcro seals. I believe I did everything right... but we'll see... I submerged the bag into my bathtub which had 16 inches of water in it. I left it over night. The entire bag was not filled with water, just the paper towel at the lens area was soaked. So i'm assuming the breach was in that area. I'm definitely going to test it again tonight, however this is very discerning as I am leaving to vacation in 2 days and was really looking forward to taking pictures underwater. Now I don't even have time to receive an alternate prime shipment. hopefully the second test performs better. Maybe I did something wrong. If it does work I will absolutely update this review and will also detail how I remedy the situation or what it was that I did wrong.

The housing works as designed. I had NO water leaks whatsoever. If you're interested in this housing, I would strongly suggest searching videos on YouTube to get reviews and to see how others load cameras, etc. A few things of note for anyone shooting seriously with this. Most important is the front element. It's a polycarb so it's plastic. Images are somewhat soft. But for the portrait tests I was doing it was fine. Second important note is that front element is NOT attached to your lens. You must compress it against the front of the lens in the housing to prevent vignette. Not a big deal, but I found that I was fighting the buoyancy of the housing, my own personal buoyancy, and then having to compress the lens port. So it was cumbersome but all very doable, with practice . Third note is the Finger Ports. There are (3). Two around the lens barrel to allow you to zoom or focus. I never used them. Then (1) which is at the shutter button to allow some access to control. Personally...I'd set the controls and FOV and avoid using the finger holes too much. These are the potential failure points. It's a different grade of plastic which is attached with a heat seam. If you're mindful and respect that this is a failure point, you should have no issues. Finally, the last challenge is the above noted buoyancy of the bag. You can't get the air out (which I believe is the same across all products like this) so it will want to float to the surface. I bought some 2# sea pearls and put them in the bottom of the bag to try to achieve neutral buoyancy in the pool. Again, if you respect the process of sealing the bag each time you use it and also are mindful of the potential failure points, you'll be fine. I've since moved on to another product, but have NO hesitation in using this as a backup. Hope this helps.

I bought this camera housing for a 'swim with the manatees' trip. After weighing the options of a point and shoot camera/hard shell housing I DIDN'T know vs. taking a chance using this with my Canon 7D and possibly getting incredible pictures I decided to buy this. Many reviews I read had many suggestions about use. Protecting inside glass, using dessicant for moisture while in cool water, getting a better fit inside for easier use. HA!!! I tried everything!! Tested for watertight seals...check, so far so good. For hours I fiddled, re-positioned my 7D with 10-22 wide angle lens. Despite being advertised as fitting the Canon 7D, the actual bag is just too big. The included foam and two foam cushions were worthless to make the camera and lens fit. The bag itself is too generic in size for a nice tight fit to hold the camera in place AND be able to use the controls well. Despite the water pressure making a tighter fit, camera shift made it hard to find the controls in the same place each time I wanted to shoot video. The camera lens size in diameter was a good fit but the length was a problem. The bellows were not adjustable to fit the shorter length of the lens so after wedging the camera as far forward as I could, stuffing a piece of foam along the lower back to attempt less shift, the bellows created a shadow ring if I attempted to zoom out for more wide angle. SO I bought a roll of gross duck tape and had to tape the bellows down effectively removing the finger holes that control zoom. SO, ALL choices have to be made BEFORE closing the bag and shooting. Have the camera completely preset, hope it is what you want and need, then close it up because you can make NO changes once the waterproof case is closed up and wet. Dessicant! HA, doesn't work in short time intervals. I placed several inside the case along the bottom. Air temp was 75 degrees, water temp was about 72 degrees...fogging began to form after a short time. Unintentional soft focus. (I did use the old dive mask trick with toothpaste and feel it slowed the process.) I did get a few videos that were worth the trouble. I also had to stop and take the strap off as it was always floating in the way. Bulky, it felt like I was pushing a pillow around after I had to take the strap off. UNABLE to switch camera from video to stills so that was disappointing. The switch area was too tight. After the swim? The inside was very, very wet. NOT soaking from a leak. Wet from condensation due to the camera heat. Thank goodness the Canon 7D can stand up to some moisture. How disappointed was I with this housing overall? I almost left it in my hotel room to lighten my luggage weight but decided to just sell it to someone else who may want to give it a try...

I just completed my third dive with this camera, and my gear has been completely protected from the water each time. I am a professional photographer and using this to experiment with underwater portraiture. The WP-S10 is made for larger DLSRs like the Nikon D90, D300, D700, D4 etc. If you are using a smaller camera like the D3300 or a Canon Rebel, you want to get the Digipac made for your size camera or you will find this to be bulky and awkward. I've used this this with a Nikon D300s combined with a 14mm f/2.8 as well as the D700 (with battery grip) and a 24-70 f/2.8 and had good results with both. The bag ships with three foam inserts for the bottom that you can use to adjust the height of the camera - I took them out when using the D700 with battery grip as it was tall enough. For my next shoot I think I will go back to using the D300s/14mm combination as it was the easiest to shoot with (no live preview on the D700 so you are shooting in the dark). One thing to note... it does give you enough room to put a radio trigger on your hot shoe. HOWEVER... if your radio trigger happens to be the older Pocket Wizard II style, it will require severe bending of the antenna in order to get it to fit in the bag. I had to do this on one dive because a battery died in my cheap Ebay triggers. Happy ending though - the Pocket Wizard lived to tell the tale. This is a great product and a great price. If you are careful about handling it and use basic common sense, this thing should last a good long while. It IS HARD to operate some of the controls on the camera when underwater, but you get used to it. It is, after all, a $65 bag and if you want ease of use and a more rugged structure, you should absolutely spend $1,300 - $5,000 on a hard housing. I may go that route if I get enough work lined up. In the meantime, I am quite happy to plug along with this. Good luck to you

First off, I have to say that I'm very impressed with the case. I think that it's the best thing going in affordable underwater housings for camera -- definitely wins the "best bang for the buck" category. Unfortunately, that's where the positive part of this review begins and ends. The negatives include me first purchasing the wrong case per the recommendation from the Dicapac website. They recommended the WP-S3 case for my Panasonic FZ200, and there is no way that the FZ200 can fit in there. Ironically, they made that recommendation because the WP-S3 is also recommended for the Panasonic FZ70, which is the same superzoom formfactor of the FZ200, but the FZ70 is actually slightly larger all over. So, don't rely on the Dicapac.com "Fitment Guide", as it could steer you very wrong. So after seeing how tiny the WP-S3 was, I decided to jump two size up (skipping the WP-S5) and got the WP-S10. It was a little big for the relatively compact FZ200 "body", but the lens extension was a nice fit. Again, not sure why they would ever recommend the comparatively tiny WP-S3 for this camera. The bulkiness of the case is significantly reduced by just squeezing most of the air out of it before closing. There is, of course, vignetting (black circle around the image) when shooting at full wideangle, but that's to be expected with this type of case, and most people are going to be shooting at full zoom anyway. The lens extension on the case is somewhat collapsible, so if you really wanted a wideangle shot, you could get it without vignetting by simply pulling the lens extension in toward the body of the case. It's a clumsy solution, but it would work. My smaller diameter lens on the FZ200 is somewhat "lost" in the rather wide lens extension of the WP-S10, but this is the only case that will work because of the length of the FZ200's lens when zoomed. Another caveat of this case is if your camera has one or more roller style controls. You will not be able to adjust these at all. On my cameras the aperture is controlled by a roller, so if you're shooting in shallow water where the light is brighter, you're going to have trouble controlling highlights, and then again have trouble in deeper, darker water when you can't open up the aperture. Limited access to controls with this case definitely dictates that you put your typically high end camera in a very automatic point-n-shoot mode, which somewhat defeats the purpose of the whole endeavor of getting an underwater housing for your high end camera instead of just using a $150 waterproof point-n-shoot. The deal ender for me was that in testing the camera/casing combo, all of my pictures were turning out very soft if not actually blurry/out of focus. My camera has one of the best, fastest, reliable auto focus features available, but I kept getting very soft pics, even in bright light, even on land (as in not underwater). So I theorized that it might be the autofocus system of my camera not liking being behind a the lens cover of the case. My camera does fine with filters on the lens, but the lens cover on this case is about 1" from the end of the camera so I thought that could be the problem. So, I got out my Pentax K-X DSLR, tried several different lenses on it, and same softness/slight blur. So I removed the lens cover from the case (it screws on/off), focused a shot with my FZ200 completely out of the case, and then put the removed lens cover from the case in front of the FZ200 lens -- instant blurring visible from the viewfinder and LCD. The lens cover on this case is not optically correct! With that issue, it would be better to simply use my Pentax WG-2 waterproof camera or even my GoPro, because although those pics are not as nice quality as pics from the FZ200 or my Pentax K-X, you can easily tweak quality in post-processing, but you can't fix such significant blur. Coming to this conclusion was very disappointing, as I was really looking forward to better waterproof photography. I frequently fish from a kayak, and participate in Heroes on the Water events (where we take war veterans kayak fishing), and I was going to use this to get better photos of the veterans out on the water, especially from a distance (I can't be up close for everyone all the time). It's bummer that it's no longer an option. I'm not sure why Dicapac wouldn't use an optical quality lens cover. No, it's not because it's supposed to counter any distortion from shooting under water because that's not needed for underwater shooting and even that would just be a magnification adjustment not focus. Unless you like soft, unsharp photos from your high end camera, I just cannot recommend this product.

I have used this item with the GH3 and it worked well. As you can imagine, with a flexible body, it can require some "fiddling" to get the lens aligned and your fingers on the controls, but for the money, I think it works well. I was able to test it down to 10 feet and it kept my camera dry. However, with my camera and lens costing >$2K (a GH3 and 12-35mm f2.8 lens, bought new, just after release), I was VERY sure I had it installed correctly, and had done many "dry runs" (well, actually, "wet runs" if you want to be technical about it) in my hot tub to make sure it would work right. The unit comes with two finger "holes" (like glove fingers that fit in the case) that you can use to adjust the controls (except for the touch screen). You can even adjust the lens focus/zoom through the "lens tube" if you are careful, though I generally left it on autofocus and hoped for the best. The video and pictures turned out pretty well. In a clear pool, the sharpness and color were as good as I could have hoped for. In the ocean, the pictures/videos were not as clear, but that was more of a factor of the particles in the ocean water blocking light and reducing visibility than a problem with the case. Oh, and because it does trap air, I found that it floated all the time. I find that a nice safety feature as opposed to sinking to the bottom. I would imagine you could include some ballast if that became a problem on deeper dives, though I wouldn't recommend it. Also, if you are really paranoid, I'd recommend putting something like part of a baby's diaper in the bottom and rest the camera on top of it, so if any water were to leak in, it would be soaked up before damaging the camera. Over all, I would highly recommend this case!

I used this with my canon 70d 18-135mm lense and it certainly kept the water out, it was bone dry inside the case after a whole day of mass water flights in Thailand for the Thai new year. There wasn't a great deal of reflection or unwanted light caused by using the case either. Due to the section which houses the lens being so long you could see the black circle shape on the frame unless you hold the bag back making the end run flush with the lense, in the end I just taped the thing in place. Operating the controls for instance changing mode was fairly difficult once the camera was inside the bag but using the back controls and main fail wasn't a problem... For the price I would highly recommend, it cost a fraction of the price in other waterproofing options. That said I rarely fully submerged the camera for sustained periods, the longest was a a few minutes at around 1.5m and this was fine. I felt nervous about going deeper for longer periods but there wasn't any signs it couldnt last longer I just didn't want to risk it. The weakest areas of the bag were the finger holes where the plastic felt a little thin, but so long as you're careful putting your fingers inside it should be fine.

Es de un material que am tacto se siente resistente, ya que se ve muy bien hecho. Mi cámara es un canon 7D y cabe perfectamente, de hecho otra más grande podría entrar. Es difícil de usar en la parte del lente pero también tiene espacio para que pueda manejarlo. Yo no la usaré dentro del agua sino en lugares como en el mar cuando voy a en una lancha o lugares con cascadas para evitar q se salpique mi cámara.

Ça fonctionne et c'est pas cher pour aller dans l'eau. On peut faire des reglages mais c'est difficile de tourner les molettes. Les boutons y a pas de soucis. Il faut absolument mettre du silica gel pour limiter la buée comme dans tous les caissons je pense. les images sont légèrement floues peut être que je ne suis pas encore au point avec le hublot. Mais ça permet de prendre des photos inédites de mon fils dans la piscine. je suis quand même pas ultra confiant pour l'instant sur l'épaisseur du plastique et les multiples coutures je pense que ça peut dechirer si on touche quelque chose ou se faire percer par un insecte ou devenir "poreux" après quelques années et changements de température. Du coup je vérifie de temps en temps l'étanchéité dans un évier avec du sopalin. Pour l'instant ça ressort sec donc c'est bien étanche. avec le boîtier dedans je reste à la surface.

So far so good, have used it 3 times now and had some good results. It's not the easiest thing to shoot with as visibility is difficult. But it keeps the water out. Make sure you seal it properly and check with a tissue before use to make sure it's still working.

I was skeptical but this kept my camera 100% dry while submerged and easy to use! I used it in a pool, about 1-2m deep