Canon A720IS Underwater housing weights

tjride:

We just received our new Canon A720IS camera and WW-DC1 Underwater housing. Can anyone let us know how important the Weights are? B & H camera was out of the weights when we ordered the camera. it sounds as though we should get them, but was curious what others have found. Any info would be much appreciated.

Tom and kim

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tjride:

Thanks Rickg for the info. This what I was looking for.

Tom

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waynel:

Here's the other side of the coin. I lost a $1,000 Sealife DC600 Elite set in Cozumel three weeks ago because I had weighted the camera. Waiting to get on the boat after a drift dive, didn't properly secure it, and goodbye, we were drifting right of the channel and it slipped into the abyss. Camera, housing, strobe, all of it.

I will never again weight down a camera. I've heard of positively buoyant cameras coming lose and then recovered at some point at the surface. But very few that were recovered intact or recovered at all going down, especially in a current. I'd much rather look for a floating camera than one bouncing and hiding along a reef system.

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