Underwater Digital Camera

[WinGeek]

I wanted to buy a new underwater digital camera. I checked it out with Nikon and I thought of buying it. But when I came across Canon and asked about underwater digital cameras, there has been some issues about it. Anyone who has experience with this stuff?

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

Are you talking about the housings?

 

[Gooberlx2]

How "underwater" do you want? For very shallow depths, read here. Pentax also has a new W90 announced.

If you're looking for something deeper, but compact, then Canon makes nice housings for a lot of their cameras.

If you're looking for professional quality waterproofness, then you'll need to look to housing manufacturers like Ikelite.

 

[corkyg]

This is strictly tongue-in-cheek. What I did was get a BIG waterproof enclosure, i.e., an observation submarine.

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/Corky-G/sub1.jpg

It was a bit cramped, but the windows were big and cleatr. At 50 feet down, there is very little color, even on a bright sunny day. The focus of this was to show the windows and the light color;

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/Corky-G/sub2.jpg

And, as a result you can see a lot of things like this - but notice the color.

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/Corky-G/sub3.jpg

Underwater i shots are a tradeoff to get decently fast shutter speed. Higher ISOs are often needed. The deeper one goes, the darker it gets.

Happy diving!