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Ikelite Underwater Housing for Sony Cyber-shot RX100

BH #IK6116.10 • MFR #6116.10
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Key Features
  • Depth Rating: 200'
  • Wireless Strobe Connection
  • Mechanical Controls
  • Access to All Camera Functions
You can capture brilliant photos and Full HD 1080p video of coral, parrot fish, and other sea life at depths as great as 200', thanks to Ikelite's Underwater Housing for the Sony Cyber-shot RX100 digital camera. The Sony's built-in flash can light your subject from within the housing, but more importantly, it can also wirelessly trigger optional external strobes, which are highly recommended for the greater illumination and color correction they provide.
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Ikelite 6116.10 Overview

You can capture brilliant photos and Full HD 1080p video of coral, parrot fish, and other sea life at depths as great as 200', thanks to Ikelite's Underwater Housing for the Sony Cyber-shot RX100 digital camera. The Sony's built-in flash can light your subject from within the housing, but more importantly, it can also wirelessly trigger optional external strobes, which are highly recommended for the greater illumination and color correction they provide.

The housing provides access to all camera functions via mechanical controls, including push-buttons, knurled dials, and a lever. Built for durability, it is constructed from corrosion-resistant polycarbonate and acrylic, which are clear to enable you to monitor the camera and O-ring seal.

Attach optional wide-angle and macro lenses with 67mm threads to the housing's flat, built-in glass lens port. Wide-angles, such as the Ikelite W-30, will increase your coverage, allowing you to get close to your subject while fitting more in the frame; macros will enable extreme close-up shots with great clarity and detail. Both types of lenses cut down on distortion caused by the water, thus improving image quality. Additionally, to restore hues that get absorbed underwater, you can use optional, external color-correction filters for blue or green water.

The housing is equipped with a 12-24 thread with 3" spacing for the mounting of an optional aluminum tray with 1 or 2 grips, which will improve balance and handling while giving you attachment points for lighting.

Construction Details
  • Depth rating: 200'
  • Made by hand in USA from durable polycarbonate and acrylic for resistance to corrosion by seawater
  • Clear to allow you to monitor O-ring seal and maintain view of camera's controls
  • Close the 2 stainless steel locking latches to see the O-ring form a solid, black, watertight seal
  • Buoyancy is nearly neutral in freshwater
Controls and Handling
  • Large, ergonomic mechanical controls, including push-buttons, knurled knobs/dials, and a lever, enable access to all camera functions
  • 12-24 threads with 3" spacing enable the mounting of an optional aluminum tray with one or two grips, which will improve balance and handling while providing attachment points for lighting arms
Lens Port
  • Built-in lens port with a flat glass front element and a 3.0" diameter
  • Accepts optional, external, wide-angle "wet" lenses with 67mm threads, such as the Ikelite WD-3 Dome and W-30 Wide-Angle Lens, as well as the INON UWL-H100
  • Wide lenses increase angle of coverage, permitting you to get close to your subject while fitting more in the frame
  • WD-3 Dome will result in no vignetting
  • Other wide-angle options offer greater field of view, but with a little vignetting and edge distortion. These effects can be eliminated by zooming in, using a smaller aperture, or cropping in post-production
  • Port also accepts optional, screw-on, 67mm macro "wet" lenses from INON, Epoque, and other brands, which let you capture extreme close-ups with great clarity and detail
  • Getting closer to your subject minimizes distortion caused by the water, resulting in improved image quality
  • Port accepts optional 3.0" color-correction filters, which replace natural tones that would otherwise be lost due to absorption once you go beyond a certain depth underwater. Red and orange are generally lost once you descend farther than 15-20'
  • Filter #6441.41 is available for blue water, while #6441.81 is available for green water. Use these filters without a strobe
  • Larger filters with 3.6" diameters can be used on many external wide or macro lenses
Strobe Connection and Operation
  • Camera's built-in flash can illuminate your subject, but is only effective at distances of 1-3' away from your subject underwater
  • Flash can also trigger an optional external strobe as a wireless slave unit
  • An external strobe is highly recommended, as it has greater reach, coverage, and color-correcting capabilities than the camera's built-in flash, and will also reduce or eliminate backscatter, glare, and hard shadows
  • Optional AF35 is an automatic optical slave strobe featuring exposure adjustment capabilities
  • Included flash diffuser softens the light of the camera's built-in flash, while a supplied flash deflector redirects it towards an external strobe

Ikelite 6116.10 Specs

Depth Rating
200' / 60 m
Control Type
Mechanical push-buttons, knurled knobs/dials, and a lever
Controls
Provide access to all camera functions
Material of Construction
Polycarbonate and acrylic
Lens Port
Built-in port with flat glass front element
Diameter: 3.0" / 7.6 cm
Accepts optional wide-angle and macro lenses with 67mm thread diameters, e.g., Ikelite WD-3 Dome and W-30 Wide Angle Lens, as well as INON UWL-H100
Accepts optional #6441.41 and #6441.81 color-correction filters
Buoyancy
Nearly neutral in freshwater
Internal Flash Usable
Yes
External Strobe Connector
None - optional external strobes, such as Ikelite AF35, must be triggered as wireless slave units by camera's built-in flash
Mounting
12-24 threads with 3.0" / 76 mm spacing for optional tray with 1 or 2 grip handles
Dimensions
6.7 x 5.1 x 5.5" / 17 x 13 x 14 cm
Weight
2.6 lb / 1.2 kg
Packaging Info
Package Weight
3.45 lb
Box Dimensions (LxWxH)
9.8 x 6.4 x 6.4"

Ikelite 6116.10 Reviews

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question

Would this fit the HX80
Asked by: Anonymous
Ikelite 6116.10 Compact Digital Underwater Housing for Sony Cyber-shot RX100 is designed specifically for the Sony RX100 so it will not work with the layout of the HX80 camera.
Answered by: Andrea O.
Date published: 2018-08-28

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Will this fit the RX100III?
Asked by: Anonymous
The Ikelite 6116.10 Compact Digital Underwater Housing is only compatible with the first Sony Cyber-shot RX100. Ikelite 6116.12 Compact Digital Underwater Housing is compatible with the Sony Cyber-shot RX100 III. Here is the link: <a href= http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1064507-REG/ikelite_6116_12_underwater_housing_for_sony.html target= _blank >http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1064507-REG/ikelite_6116_12_underwater_housing_for_sony.html</a>
Answered by: Lawrence C.
Date published: 2018-08-28

question

I recently purchased an Ikelite underwater housing( 6116.10) for an RX 100 Sony camera. Do they make cloth bags to store these housings in?Knut
Asked by: Anonymous
Ikelite does not make make cloth bags to store their compact digital underwater housings. We found getting a soft cooler from a sporting goods or drug store to be a good way to transport housings to and from a dive site. The soft material of the cooler protects the housing and it does not matter if the inside of the cooler gets wet. It is better to keep the housing wet than have salt water dry on the housing. So on small boats that do not have a fresh water rinse we will fill the cooler with salt water and transport the housing back to shore wet.
Answered by: Lawrence C.
Date published: 2018-08-28
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