AquaTech Sport Housing for Canon 7D-Review

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Having taken up water sports (Stand Up Paddleboarding and Kayaking) I was looking for better images than I could get with a waterproof Point-N-Shoot and some protection for a good camera.

Since I own a fair selection of Canon lenses and am quite happy with the system I decided to get something that would work with what I already owned. Since I wasn't planning on doing any deep diving 10 meters or so of waterproof protection ought to be fine.

After some internet searching and deep thought I selected an AquaTech sport housing that would work with a Canon 7D. AquaTech also offers a surf housing that would work with the Canon 60D that costs a lot less than the sport housing. The difference between their sport and surf housings seems to be mainly the amount of function control the user has while shooting.

Naturally I opted for the more expensive sport housing.

Of course since I owned neither a 7D or 60D I needed to buy a body too. :cryin:

It also turns out that the lens port is not included with the housing, it had to be selected to match the lens choice. I opted for a lens port for the 17-40 f4 zoom. It looked to me that that port would also work with my 50mm f1.2 (and as it turned out it does saving me a bucket of money not having to buy a second lens port).

When everything arrived it was time to put it together and check things out.