Some years back I bought a Olympus C-8080 and a UV house for it. Before that I used a Konica compact and a watertight bag, from Ortlieb, which worked very well. The latter has worked excellently for years, although now missing a few pixels. So while the Olympus has an excellent lens, and at times takes outstanding pictures it is a beast, inside its UV house, even more so! A ten-pound baseball would be easier to handle, and smaller! There are a lot of compacts with high resolution, not least Olympus line of waterproof cameras, but beware that the higher the resolution the worse the capacity of handling low light, as most of them use the same chip size, but some cram in many more pixels per square inch! And the more pixels per square inch, the more noise! So I'd say my wife's compact (Nikon P5100), in a dry bag, or Pelikan box,is far better! And now there's a P 6000 ... So, if you want a portable, useful system, choose one that works for you. As an aside the Canon HF-10, HF-11, or HF-100 video recorders are excellent at sea, if you put them in a Tord Tube (that's a piece of acrylic tube, with acrylic ends). You use your remote to turn it on and off, zoom, et cetera! Works great! Even with the remote inside a plastic bag! For a view of a Tord Tube, see www.foldingkayaks.org and go to Tord and then to "A Lot of Junk"! All the text have been lost, after a hacker attack, but you'll get the idea! The camera used for the shots isn't HD capable, but we replaced it with HF-10 soon after (much better!). -- It's News. It's Reviews. It's Interviews. It's Free. What Are You Waiting For? www.movieline.com *************************************************************************** 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 Wed Apr 22 2009 - 16:14:57 PDT
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