Camera!

After taking pictures and movies under water with my GoPro Hero 3 for more than two years, I decided to take a better camera for the trip.
The GoPro is ok for point and shoot in depths up to 10m, but gets really bad beyond that. The lack of Whitebalance easily reachable makes it hard to shoot good underwater footage beyond 5 meters depth

What I need:
compact size
wide aperture, below 1:2.0
Underwater scene program
the most simple manual white balance for underwater shooting
dive housing available for a reasonable price
tele beyond 100 mm equivalent

Fernando Miaguchi, a great videographer I met on my Pawara trip in March 2016, recommended his Canon G15.
Canon D30 and Nikon AW130 are Outdoor cameras, no need for a dive housing, but the sensors are small, bad aperture. Nice price around 300 Euros.

The Canon G5x has good aperture, good lens, good sensor, but a price tag of around 700 Euros.

The best and most camera for the price I found was Panasonic Lumix LX100, but nobody could share experience with this camera under water. It operates like a analogue camera, aperture and focus by rings on the lens tubes, no scene programs, several steps necessary the change white balance manually. But a great 1" sensor, aperture starting at 1.7! Price tag around 600 Euros.

The Canon G15 is not available anymore.

Then I found the company Aditech , Advanced Diving Technology, situated in St. Antoni, Catalunya, Spain.
They offer housings for a wide variety of cameras, even for the Lumix LX100.

And they offer a bundle of a Canon G16 with a housing for 780 Euros:

After many weeks and days of research, I finally made up my mind and ordered the bundle at Aditech. Next week i can try the camera, it's the follow up model of Fernandos G15.

See you under water