Re: [Paddlewise] Waterproof digital cameras

From: Nick Schade <schade_at_guillemot-kayaks.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 08:59:21 -0500
You could just have a light nylon stuff-sack that you keep the camera 
out of the direct sun. My S300 waterproof case is still quite small - 
about the size of a typical SLR camera body.

At 5:22 PM -0600 12/10/01, Natalie Wiest wrote:
>thanks to you who have responded so quickly, now here's a little twist.
>It's beginning to look like the best way to go is to get a good digital
>camera that has its own hardshell (uh-oh, are we going to go there...?)
>plastic water proof case.  Has anyone out there used these cases very
>extensively?  Here on Texas Gulf coast, it can get mighty hot during the
>summer, and a camera in a clear plastic case just might cook in direct
>sunlight.  Alternatives for that of course are that I could stuff it under
>my pfd or maybe under bungie cords on the deck with an opaque cover  if it's
>not too windy and wavey (technical terminology).  How big does this camera
>plus case get to be?  I'm not a really big person and I don't want something
>the size of even my small pelican case stuffed inside my pfd...  Gee, maybe
>I should go the other direction and get a really BIG camera case to use it
>for a paddle float.
>
>Natalie Wiest
>Galveston TX
>
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