Suggestions for Underwater Camera please.

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This is not something I've dealt with before, but would anyone be able to recommend an underwater camera?

The use is for an Art project and we would be needing to print at up to A1 size.

I have a Canon 350D, and understand you can get housings to use this underwater, but I have also seen some compacts, my concern here is whether they would be good enough to produce the desired result.


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Richard.
 
Depends on the type of stuff you want to shoot. I use an S90 and find it great, for a few years before that I used a Powershot A620 with excellent results.

However, the real key to underwater photography is light, which means good strobes, which are bulky and expensive.

All depends on what depth you're shooting at really.
 
Are you a competent and experienced diver? If not, then don't even think about a housing for a DSLR.
 
Nawty said:
Depends on the type of stuff you want to shoot. However, the real key to underwater photography is light, which means good strobes, which are bulky and expensive. All depends on what depth you're shooting at really.
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Need to expand what you want, the waterproof compacts like the canon powershot D10 are rather expensive, it you're looking to house a camera in a waterproof case, these ain't cheap either for the proper versions.
 
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Underwater housing for a DSLR - about as expensive as a DSLR!

Anyone out there got any experience of a waterproof compact, cos you're wasting your money on the cr*ppy kodak film disposables

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HI

I dive and recently my wife bought me a underwater camera, it is a Intova ic10.

10mp and even does video, total cost £140 ish with the casing and waterproof to 40m, tested to 32m my self and still taking good pics

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Now whilst these have had no pp at all they are good pics for such a cheap camera.
my theory is if its only for a project so getting used little afterwards why spend fortunes, also if it gets wet you do not loose a fortune.

spike
 
Depends how deep you want to go. If it just under the surface, place the camera in a glass fish tank and hold this so the top of the tank is just above the water's surface. You can pick these up extremely cheaply and can always be used for different project later.
 
My mother wanted a camera for snorkelling use, but with good quality (she paints from her photos). She ended up buying a G7 and the canon waterproof housing for it. Unfortunately in the end the housing wasn't sealed properly and the camera died. Insurance replacement was a G9, and she got the new housing for that and has used it successfully since. We found that the most cost effective route to decent quality at an ok price - the G7 and housing were combined less than an SLR housing, plus the removal of risk to the SLR gear.
 
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