I just got it the other day and haven't dove with it yet. This is my first non-glorified-ziplock style housing.
It seems like they assembled it in a hurry because there were a few things that concern me: The o-ring on the "zoom" knob is bulging out just a bit, 1 of the 5 screws that hold the front lens port was missing and 1 of them was only half way in, the "internal adjustable ballast" is nowhere to be found and neither is the carrying strap.
I emailed Equinox about these issues with pictures and they said that it shouldn't affect the function... we'll see
It's bigger than i thought it would be, which isn't bad. It's not too hard to figure everything out. The internal control arms are able to be pulled outward in order to fit the camera in and to reach other buttons.
It seems like the housing was made specifically for the 16-35mm 2.8L ii because the zoom and focus bands line up perfectly for it. The housing also fits 50mm 1.2L but neither of the bands work well to use for manually focus. The 100mm 2.8 also fits well but i haven't tested MF. There is no vignetting with any of the lenses i've tested so far and image quality seems to be really good (no worse than using a low end UV filter).
There is no control arm for the index wheel (near the shutter button) so i epoxied a small nail to the WB control arm (which is useless unless you have the ability to control the index wheel) so that it could reach the index wheel and it seems to be working so far.
I plan to update this review after i dive with it mid June 2013.
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