Waterproof camera advice?

kraeva · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 73

I am trying to buy a new point-n-shoot camera for x-mass. With all the waterproof cameras on the market now, I was thinking of one of those. There are lots of reviews out there, but its hard to decipher what actually works. But seems like Pentax W60, W80, Canon D10, and the Panasonic are the best ones.

Anyone have any experience with those, and can say which camera would work best to take out sailing for some good action and beach pictures?

Cheers!
sasha

rswabsin · Joined: 14 May 2000 Posts: 444 Location: New Jersey

Sasha,

I bought the Canon Power Shot D10 waterproof camera for a trip to Maui this past summer. We used it almost everyday for underwater snorkeling shots and it worked perfectly - it takes really nice underwater pictures and also works really well as a general purpose digital camera out of the water. It can also take up to an hour's worth of digital video with sound - including underwater. The large view finder screen makes it easy to center images and capture great photos. There are numerous digital setting for every lighting environment and can even take a series of action photos automatically such as snapping off a dozen sequence pictures of someone waver riding. One caution - the camera sinks in water so be aware of that - it's easy to loose. I'd highly recommend this camera - great rechargable battery life, high qualilty photos, easy to use with countless settings, 3X real zoom, 10X digital zoom plus many other features. Picked it up through Amazon - check their reviews and look at reviews on B&H Camera as well.

Rob

Wind-NC.com · Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:08 am Post subject:

Yo Sasha-

Take Rob's review, replace "Canon Powershot D10" with "Olympus Stylus SW Series," and you'll get my experience with said Olympus. The only bummer with the Olympus is that it takes a "xd" memory card, so you probably can't interchange cards with other gadgets that you might already own.

Good luck! Post some pics once you get the goods!

tyler4bu · Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 11:13 am Post subject:

mogunn · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 1307 Location: SF Bay

Wind-NC.com · Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 12:10 pm Post subject:

mogunn · Joined: 03 Apr 2006 Posts: 1307 Location: SF Bay

BTW, Mr. Mo uses a Pentax W30 in a CamRig for kiteboarding shots. Works well enough.
Sample video here...

weihlac · Joined: 21 Apr 2000 Posts: 12 Location: Maui

depending on your need for waterproof (usually to 30 ft) vs pressure proof you might look at the SeaLife digital dive cameras (http://www.sealife-cameras.com/index.html)

AW

3-phase · Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Posts: 481

Olympus Stylus SW Series great camera.
Jurg

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kraeva · Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 73

Thank you for the advice guys!

Unfortunately Olympus does not make the SW line anymore. And the current line, the Stylus Tough 8000 and 6000, doesn't have enough zoom for us, and the picture quality seems inferior.

We have always had Canon cameras, but the D10 seems a little bulky. And again not enough zoom. but it does seem like a great camera! and Canons always served us well.

Does anyone have any experience with the Pentax? W60 or the W80?