Canon PowerShot pics suck?

[MikeP]

Originally Posted by es355lucille

I have a Canon Powershot SD 800 IS. Its 7.1 mega pixels. It takes wonderful pictures unil I want to take picture of something in my aquarium. Then it turns into a last century piece of equipment.


What's the answer? I have seen some beautiful pictures on Can-reef and elsewhere on the net. What is everyone using for Cameras? Underwater Types?

Thanks
Brad

This is how I feel too. I've been looking into why and I think part of it is due to the optical zoom. Although even with no zoom my pictures still aren't all that good. My camera even has an aquarium setting (which seems to do nothing!). I've tried using the manual settings as well so the camera doesn't "think" for me but no luck there either.