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As a silicone cover, this item is pretty much as advertised.

It's a cleanly molded, milky-clear silicone case that fits fairly well over the Olympus LS10. There are cuts for the two built-in mics, the SD/line out ports, the volume knob, recording level knob, mic input, line input, remote control, and the DC in line.

The front controls are molded into the silicone case which makes pressing the buttons easier than without the case.

No directions come with the cover, which leaves you with a bit of a mystery regarding how to put the LS10 into the cover. I put the LS10 into the case through the LCD window, then pulled the rest of the cover over the microphones.

As other reviewers have stated, the real weakness of this case is that the power/keylock slider as well as the low-cut and mic amp sliders are covered by silicone on the case. The silicone is molded in such a way as to allow these sliders to be actuated using your fingers, but not without quite a bit of effort.

You might want to think about taking an x-acto knife to the slider areas yourself. Just remember to remove the LS10 from the case before doing so!!

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Works great to protect the case and still allow use of most controls. Cover is not very thick, so extent of shock or drop protection is uncertain. Obviously not intended for drop protection, but clearly better than exposed case.

Only issue is access to the "on/off" switch. Since this switch is a slide switch that must be held for an extended period to power down, it is difficult to manipulate through the silicon. Moving the slide requires using fingernail which feels like risk to pierce the cover. Other controls work well. Offers no protection to the screen, which is obviously the most vulnerable portion of the unit, so judge utility accordingly. Uncovered screen offers good visibility, but unprotected.

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Last month I recorded an outdoor concert on the first cold night of the year. It was 40 degrees warmer earlier in the day, needless to say no one was comfortable. I didn't bring a tripod to mount my LS 11 so I was stuck holding my recorder over my head, in the cold for over two hours. After an hour or so 10 min. was about as long as I was comfortable holding an arm up without readjusting. The recording should have been horrible, all full of thuds bumps and pops from bouncing the recorder from hand to hand and constantly readjusting my sore arms in the cold. To my surprise, when I listened to the recording there was no case noise from all the jostling. If I had only brought an extra skin to put over the drunk girl next to me!

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This product works as advertised and provides some good protection for my LS-11. I use the LS-11 primarily outdoors for recording wildlife sounds so it needed some protection from rain and being dropped.

This skin is great and easy to put on, however there are a few quirks.

The skin does makes it a bit difficult to access the gain and volume wheels.

As mentioned by others, the skin does completely cover up the POWER/HOLD,LOW CUT, and MIC SENSE switches. However, it is a simple matter to cut away small access panels in the silicon for these switches without affecting the integrity of the cover. So that is an easy fix. And because you get to choose which panels get cut, you could leave the LOW CUT or MIC SENSE switches covered if you always leave this in the same position to allow easy switching in the dark (which I do a lot).

Another slight quirk is that the foam microphone windshields don't stay on my LS-11 as well now that the cover is fitted. They don't fall off easily, just are brushed off a bit more easily than before.

You do have to remove the cover to change the batteries. It is easy to get on and off as it is very flexible, but it is a little bit annoying if you are out in the field recording.

In spite of these quirks, this skin is a great way to protect your recorder, particularly if you use it outside. A quick tweak with a pair of sharp scissors and it is fully functional.

I recommend it to anyone with the LS-10 or LS-11.

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Received in original packing and with full packing. Olympus has very good brand and supplied this item as per my expectation.The product is very professionally and fits LS-11 very well.

Excellent.

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