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.

Mephistopheles* wrote:

(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.

OK, I'm going to agree with Kelpdiver here in warning against using a camera very early in your diving experience.

This post shows the main concern being worrying about an old camera and depth limits.  I can assure you that a new diver (less than 25 dives, and easily more for many) will have a lot to worry about besides image quality.  And should you pay close attention to the camera and your shot before diving is second nature, you risk serious injury to yourself as well as inadvertent damage to coral reefs.  My late wife was a decent diver with about 50 dives in when she focused too much on shooting a lionfish on a liveaboard trip in Fiji.   She sunk down while getting the shot, and she burst her eardrum - 3rd dive of the trip, and she had to sit out the liveaboard the rest of the week.

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.

I'm not surprised, especially for a camera several generations old.  That whole class of camera+cheap housing (lots of Canons) photography has basically disappeared, and there are few options anymore that are affordable.

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.

I confess I know next to nothing about the TG cameras, aside from they can take wonderful macro photos, but I thought only the latest one offered RAW shooting?  That would be a must for me.  And I think more megapixels are better too.

Thanks for the input.

–The TG-4 shoots raw and has a 16 megapixel sensor; the TG-6 has a 12 megapixel sensor and otherwise isn't much different from earlier models.  I've read that the gopro isn't great for stills photography, and that is mostly what I shoot.

–Perhaps a used case is the way to go.  Since the camera is already waterproof, some leaking shouldn't be a disaster.

–I agree about not getting too complicated with the photography early on.  That is why I'm sticking with a point-and-shoot that I have already used underwater rather than getting a case for my more sophisticated cameras.

–I was wondering about scuba forums and will check those out.