What waterproof camera to buy?

foreveringlass · #1 06-10-2010, 01:23 PM

I had always bought an olympus in the past. However, this time I changed up and got the Canon D10 powershot. I love it!

noirsphynx · #2 06-10-2010, 01:40 PM

I have the Olympus Stylus Tough 6020 and I love it.

parkinsn · #3 06-10-2010, 03:03 PM

I picked up a canon D10 last year and have been very impressed with the quality of the pictures that it takes. It was a toss up between that and Olympus though.

Delphinus · #4 06-10-2010, 03:08 PM

Olympus vs Canon was a hard choice for me too. Love the Olympus cameras, have an older one and a newer one - the wife keeps the newer one 'cuz it's tiny and I still use the older one for the occasional tank photo (top downs in particular since it fits under the lights when pointing down which I could never do with an SLR). So I really wanted an Olympus but when I went looking I found the Canon D10 and what really sold me on it was the depth to 33feet/10meters whereas most others in the price point are 10feet. 10feet is good for snorkeling but I wouldn't take it diving. I did take the D10 on a dive and I was the only one in the group able to take away pictures from the dives - for some reason the others either didn't have cameras or the cameras didn't work down at depth, despite being in casings that were rated to deeper water.

Hard to go wrong with Olympus or Canon either way though.

damtrees420 · #5 06-10-2010, 03:54 PM

if your going to buy the olympus stylus do not go to deep when snorkling in hawaii my camra and two others got water in them my still works but the other two never worked again

parkinsn · #6 06-10-2010, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

Olympus vs Canon was a hard choice for me too. Love the Olympus cameras, have an older one and a newer one - the wife keeps the newer one 'cuz it's tiny and I still use the older one for the occasional tank photo (top downs in particular since it fits under the lights when pointing down which I could never do with an SLR). So I really wanted an Olympus but when I went looking I found the Canon D10 and what really sold me on it was the depth to 33feet/10meters where as most others in the price point are 10feet. 10feet is good for snorkeling but I wouldn't take it diving. I did take the D10 on a dive and I was the only one in the group able to take away pictures from the dives - for some reason the others either didn't have cameras or the cameras didn't work down at depth, despite being in casings that were rated to deeper water.

Hard to go wrong with Olympus or Canon either way though.

If im not mistaken the Canon not only goes deeper (33ft for the price) it is also freeze resistant to -15 and drop resistant from 10ft. These 3 features are what sold me on the cannon. Also the canon lense/retractable part (sorry not camera lingo savy) does not need to be lubed as it gets older where as the olimpus does. I will throw up some pic's that I took snorkeling in venezuela when I get home.

Delphinus · #7 06-10-2010, 04:11 PM

Can I play too??

Here are some from Kauai (taken with the D10 around 35 feet or so):

This is a bit grainy because it was taken at full zoom so I could stay far away enough to not spook him and I was fighting a bit of current to stay put long enough to get the photo:

Anyhow. Love the D10 and despite it being an "underwater" camera I actually use it as my daily driver these days, unless I'm trying to work the SLR, but I'm basically unhappy with anything I produce using the SLR these days.

The D10 takes way better photos of just about everything.

GongShow · #8 07-05-2010, 06:34 PM

i work in the camera department of a futureshop and i would say that the panasonic ts2 which is panasonics water proof camera is the best out of the three but to be honest form my many hours playing with them there all super close

fencer · #9 07-05-2010, 06:45 PM

TS2 looks a lot like the Olympus stylus...does it perform better?

fLshgear · #10 07-20-2010, 12:39 AM

i am a huge canon fan, all of my cameras have been canon. and canon is all that i would recomend. i recently got a fujifilm xp. it is shock, freeze, sand, water proof. it was half the price of the canon water proof camera. it takes all right pictures. it is slow, the buttons are hard to use underwater, the menu is hard to use and it is very slow overall. i dont really like it.

when we went to mexico, the snorkel guide had a regular camera in a ziploc type of bag. his pictures were just as good as mine.

you get what you pay for.