I've noticed a couple of questions regarding dive cameras so thought I'd
continue the trend. A friend spent $700 on a 6mp cannon camera with a dive
case. I've noticed most of the pictures suffered from a severe lack of light
and the camera automatically went to a long exposure causing many of them to
be blured. Those that weren't blurred were quite dull. Only closeup shots
were acceptable really. After having a look at the pics I'm kinda of the
opinion that only a high quality camera with a full size lense (to let more
light in) and a good external flash would be required to get acceptable
photos. Is this true? I'm not a camera zealot if anyone is wondering as I
quite happily take shots out of the water with a compact and reckon it is
pretty good. I usually dive around the 18 metre...

Michael C wrote:

On Apr 18, 9:06 am, "Michael C" nospam.com> wrote:

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:06:27 +1000, "Michael C" nospam.com>
wrote:

I bought the FujiFilm Finepix F30 and associated underwater case. The
F30 has an "underwater" setting. I think I paid a total of $480 for
the package but that was the weekend following Thanksgiving last year.
The quality is certainly not professional but it was worth $480 to me.
One nice thing about digital is that you can take a thousand poor
quality pictures (which I did) and it doesn't cost you a dime.

http://soxmax.myphotoalbum.com/

The photos are of diving in Tortola with a few of the Rhone wreck up
to 80 feet depth. I think there is also a surface picture.

Best Regards,
Derek

Michael C wrote:

http://www.camerasunderwater.info/optics/lenscorrect.html

BugBear

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On 2007-04-18 06:06:27 -0700, "Michael C" nospam.com> said: