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Cannon Powershot D10 Underwater Camera
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shardian on August 05, 2009, 11:09:30 am ---Kodak cameras are horrible.
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I worked at Kodak on their digital cameras of ~6 years ago and the Easyshare client software.
shardian is right. Not much has changed in terms of hardware quality.
ChadTower:
$15 where I work. Odds are you'll get some reasonable shots from that given that it's a disposable camera taking shots underwater. Anyone with high expectations is using the wrong camera.
shardian:
We use the disposable underwater cameras on vacation. Cheap, mostly effective, and they float. I won't cry a river if I lose/break it either.
I think we bought ours last year for $7.
Vanguard:
I've tried these and they are okay in a couple feet of water. Get down 10 feet and the film is too fast for the light levels. The pictures come out very grainy. Plus, it is very hard to look through the viewfinder with a mask on.
Not to mention, you don't know what you've got until you develop the film. A lot of times there is silt in the water that you can't see when you look through the camera. When the flash goes off, it illuminates. What looked like a good pictures winds up being crap and you don't know it until you develop the film.
I switched from a Sea & Sea Motormarine II film camera to the Nikon DSLR with housing because of this. I would shoot 10 rolls of 35mm film and get a handful of good pictures.
Vanguard:
Got the camera this weekend and played with it in the pool. Not a true indication of it's performance in just 7-8 feet of water but early impression is that it is a very nice camera. It was a little scary to submerge it for the first time. It has all the normal external controls that a regular camera does and it really doesn't look waterproof. It was though.
Once I get it in some crystal clear ocean water, I'll have better impression of the image quality. The pool has been a little cloudy from all the use and rain we've been having.
Out of the water, I was happy with the image quality too. Zoom is a little weak at only 3x but it is fine for my intended use.
My big concern was the construction of it and the opportunity for corrosion. It does have a number of hex bolts which appear to be stainless steel and the body is a metallic like plastic so I'm not too concerned about the body.
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