Tony's Cousteau reference scared me as most I've found are literally giant lucite cubes with dual joysticks.

It is a lucite cube, yes, but remember that this camera starts out being very small to begin with. So the addition of the lucite casing wouldn't make it into a giant camera. That what I meant when I said that the camera's small size would be an advantage.

There are pictures at the DPReview site, check it out.

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Tony Fabris