If you have a Canon S100, it can let you go anytime, but Canon doesn't care.

A few months ago, in anticipation of a diving trip, I decided to renew my camera equipment, and I bought a Canon S100 with an Ikélite housing.

Two weeks later, a friend informed me that Canon had published a notice stating that a number of batches of these cameras could, over time, exhibit lens malfunction, especially in hot and cold conditions. 'humidity (!)

(in English:)

http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/professional/products/professional_cameras/pro_ps_digital_cameras/powershot_s100?pageKeyCode=prdAdvDetail&docId=0901e024805ab992&fb_source=message

I have contacted Canon about this, and as per their post they will not take any preventive action.

They only commit to fixing it once it breaks. Which seems to me to be a legal obligation in the event of a manufacturing defect.

So here is a device, bought new at a high price, which is likely to let me down overnight, during a stay at the end of the world, of the type that we only do once, victim of a known problem and identified ...

Commercially, it's not very smart.

So Canon, it's over for me ...