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Good underwater case for Olympus TG-4 still available???

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Good underwater case for Olympus TG-4 still available???

(Cross-post with Olympus Compact Camera forum]

Will be getting my beginning diving certification soon, so will be able to go to depths 10 feet deeper than the 50 feet recommended limit for the camera. Plus mine is over six years old. So getting a waterproof case would seem prudent.

However, the Olympus PT-056 case seems to have been discontinued. The only one for the TG-4 I find available new is this one from Ikelite: Ikelite Case at B&H Photo But it gets bad reviews from two out of three users, who say the zoom button is very difficult to use and even the shutter difficult to press. The Olympus case is available used on eBay, but buying a used underwater case seems like inviting disappointment.

Anyone have other recommendations or good experience with the Ikelite case? The only other option I can think of is to purchase a TG-6 with the newer Olympus case, but that obviously seems like a waste when the TG-6 offers no meaningful advantages over the TG-4 that I am aware of and the latter even has more megapixels.

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