What camera do you have?

[Nevin]

The one I'm interested in is the Olympus 1030SW. No personal experience with it, but it looks amazing. 10MP, compact, solid, waterproof to 33ft (stick it right in your tank or take it snorkelling), 28mm equivalent macro. $400 at Future Shop, which also has a lower model of Olympus waterproof for $300. Very nice if you can afford it. Anyone have experience with these?

Snappy, thanks for the reminder. I forgot my camera had a macro setting!

Regards,
Nevin

I have a Pentax OptioW10. It is a waterproof camera and I love it! Very durable and easy too use the macro feature is decent. All in all not a bad camera, take a look at the W7 as well.

[Canuckgod420]

someone posted not to use nikon......why not.
I have a nikon slr and I am blown away by the quality of the pics.
just my 2 cents worth.

Thanks

[Murminator]

I use the canon G9 best non SLR out there

[mark]

Originally Posted by Nevin

The one I'm interested in is the Olympus 1030SW. No personal experience with it, but it looks amazing. 10MP, compact, solid, waterproof to 33ft (stick it right in your tank or take it snorkelling), 28mm equivalent macro. $400 at Future Shop, which also has a lower model of Olympus waterproof for $300. Very nice if you can afford it. Anyone have experience with these?

Snappy, thanks for the reminder. I forgot my camera had a macro setting!

Regards,
Nevin

I picked up a reconditioned 770SW from Olympus's e-bay store just before I went to Cuba. I think it's a great little P&S camera, take snorkelling, not worried about the kid dropping it. Won't give you those fantastic macro shots you keep see here though.

Look here for what the 720SW could do on the reef.

[WhoPoopWrasse]

Canon eos digital rebel xt 8mp
Great camera, lots of lenses available

[Reefhawk1]

Originally Posted by WhoPoopWrasse

Canon eos digital rebel xt 8mp
Great camera, lots of lenses available

I love my Canon SLR cameras I have a 30D 8.2 meg and a digital rebel XTI 10.2 meg with several Image stabilization lenses.

The reason I am looking for a P&S is carrying purposes. I have a large camera bag for my SLR's and It is difficult to carry them around wherever I go as well as I worry about my vehicle getting broken into when my equipment is in there.


Thank you for all the input everyone. It will definitely help me make a better decision.

[muck]

Hey Stan,

We picked up a Canon SD800IS last April to take on our walk about Europe. It did remarkablely well for the most part. I love the fact that you can take small videos as well. The only two negatives that I noticed was it struggles a little in low light and for the life of me I can't figure out how to take motion or fast action shots..

On the whole its a great pocket camera to supplement your DSLRs.

Ryan