Hi, I´m listening eagerly to what you folks say about waterproof cameras. Actually, Gabriel, I wouldnt dare taking my Leica out on the water for obvoius reasons. Dropping it once - having to decide in the wink of an eye whether to drop our baby or the camera - I paid dm 900 for repair. No question: Same alternatives given I´d do it again. But of course I wouldnt provoke any situations of this kind. So in my boats I either use my veeery old metal body Olympus XA - rather indestructable with comparably good lenses, not waterproof, of course, or a digital Kodak dc 210+. I carry them in a drybag which slows me down very much (Try taking a pic of a blue heron - impossible). A friend has a waterproof Canon which makes good pics - wide angle, though. I´d like to see a reasonable priced waterproof camera with 100 mm lens of good quality over here because most things I like to take a picture of are rather far away. Actually 200 mm would make even more sense. But there is no such camera in Germany - at least not in that price category I´d like to go for. So I wait on. Good pics, all of you. Frank Gute Entscheidungen kommen aus der Erfahrung. Dummerweise stammt Erfahrung meist aus schlechten Entscheidungen. Frank Fichtmueller, Guetebohlweg 4, D 78343 Gaienhofen (d) evkirche.hoeri_at_t-online.de (p) fichtmueller_at_gmx.de (T) (0049) + 7735 - 2074 (d) 2776 (p) (F) 1431 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Jan 19 2001 - 10:27:06 PST
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