All weather digicam - any thoughts?

[diediealsomustdive]

Hi guys,

Went to the Philippines recently on a work trip, had one chance to dive and did morning and evening snorkels. Obviously I did not bring my housing and strobe, but would have liked to have one of those all-weather digicam for snorkelling duties. Any one has done some research on them or know of any reviews that I can read to get more infor?

Thanks.

 

[lovells19]

Hi guys,

Went to the Philippines recently on a work trip, had one chance to dive and did morning and evening snorkels. Obviously I did not bring my housing and strobe, but would have liked to have one of those all-weather digicam for snorkelling duties. Any one has done some research on them or know of any reviews that I can read to get more infor?

Thanks.

there's only one now i think, small compact, shock proof, water proof till 3m..

thats its advantages.. thats abt all

 

[diediealsomustdive]

That's the mju 720SW? Thought there is a Pentax as well?

 

[beivied]

there's only one now i think, small compact, shock proof, water proof till 3m..

thats its advantages.. thats abt all

max depth 3m for max 30 min if i am not wrong (or rather, ) ;p

 

[staad3]

maybe 1 advantage is it is an added protection in case your housing floods and camera is at least water proof.

 

[kong]

was considering the 720sw as a replacement to my a70 in a casing. it's so small and compact, no need box for pool, snorkling and outdoor-sports duties with hopefully better chance of survival in case the box is flooded. too good to be true?
then i read some -ve reviews on poor image quality, shutter lag, etc.... well i quess it's indeed too good to be true.
c'mon, when is canon going to start offering weather/water-proof digicam like this? c'mon canon! :hammer:

 

[Nik-enduser]

have tried out the Pentax Optio WP and WP10. general p&s. good for wet weather or water related activities. pretty nifty macro as well. not tried it at 1 m depth yet.

another weather proof digicam is Ricoh Caplio 500G, pretty good specs. http://www.ricoh.com/r_dc/caplio/500gwide/

of course the Olympus mju was mentioned earlier

these second or third generation water proof digicams are better in specifications and rather compact as well.

 

[diediealsomustdive]

The Ricoh is rather chunky, while the pentax and oly look sleek and nice. :think: 1m vs 1.5m vs 3m, plus price diff. If cost not a concern I would take the Oly. But would the Pentax survive snorkelling, you know, frequent but short surface dives to 3~3.5m? Oly might, since there is a 30 min caveat on the water proof feature.

Sigh... gotta make more money....

 

[RSU]

Or you can try this. Can go deeper than 3m and does not take up too much space in your luggage. Knew a guy who used it to dive to 30m with his SLR.

 

[diediealsomustdive]

Thanks for the "bag" suggestion, but I think I'll pass on this one.