Jessica - The camera I like the best for kayaking is a Pentax IQ zoom 105. A couple of other people have referred to it as "an inferior unit" but my own luck with it has been excellent - and those who know me will vouch for the fact that I'm a pretty fussy person. It's "splashproof" but it's not submersible. If the weather's bad I keep it in a ziplock bag in the front pocket of my PFD. It has acceptable zoom capacity and the image quality and color rendition are quite good. It won't accept filters, but I carry a polarizing filter with me anyway, and just hold it up in front of the lens, if it's needed, when taking pictures once I'm *out* of the kayak - something I wouldn't attempt while paddling. On land I prefer an Olympus IS-2, which is more flexible in several different ways.... The waterproof disposbales haven't worked nearly as well for me as they have for others. Underwater, I've gotten a few good photos with them. While paddling, for whatever reason, I've not gotten acceptable images. On the other hand, I really like James Lofton's comment that "A great camera in a waterproof container, buried in the end of your kayak, won't take as good a picture as the cheap one that you have handy, and use." That's good advice! Bill Hansen *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Sep 21 1999 - 06:36:08 PDT
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