agears
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We used a regular digital with a case and got great shots. Wouldn't bother with those disposables.
snorkling vacation destination (1 Viewer)
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agears
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Sharm El Sheik is the city. Long flights and i wouldn't go right now... But some day i'd like to go back. Some great wreck dives too.
The photos posted in this thread that I gave the link to before...
http://www.tcmas.org/forums/showthread.php?t=33799&highlight=rarotonga
.... were taken with an Olympus Tough. This is a compact point and shoot that is shock and water resistant. It is good down to greater depths than I would ever plan to go when snorkeling (but maybe if you were doing SCUBA you'd need something different?) as long as you are careful to keep the seals clean and undamaged.
It is no DSLR, but it takes surprisingly good photos. Underwater the photos were quite good if I had good lighting. Those fish were moving (as was I, bobbing up and down with the waves), and it grabbed onto focus and stopped motion pretty well, and the good shots have quite a lot of detail (e.g. I can zoom way in on that Acropora photo and see lots of detail). As with any photography of live animals taken with any camera a lot of shots were bad, but a surprising proportion of them were quite good.
I spent a month in New Zealand with 5 days on Rarotonga at the end, traveling with a group of students. I didn't want to haul my DSLR on this trip (but REALLY wish I'd had it for bird photography!) and just took this little Olympus. Aside from the bird photography thing, it was a great camera. I even got some underwater video of some wrasses and butterflyfish eating an urchin (I'm not sure how it got opened up in the first place, but they were very excited about this!).
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RedHeckle
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Nice pics capman!!!
The Olympus Tough looks like nice camera for snorkelling and other shallow water sports or skiing. But, if one plans to dive another camera is needed. The Tough is rated to 33ft. It may work for shallow dives but you'd still be reaching it's limits. I've had my checkout dive at 30-40ft and other dives ranged from 25ft to 90ft.
Most cameras/cases used for diving are rated to around 200ft. Just depends on what you want to camera to do for you and best fits your needs.
The Olympus Tough looks like nice camera for snorkelling and other shallow water sports or skiing. But, if one plans to dive another camera is needed. The Tough is rated to 33ft. It may work for shallow dives but you'd still be reaching it's limits. I've had my checkout dive at 30-40ft and other dives ranged from 25ft to 90ft.
Most cameras/cases used for diving are rated to around 200ft. Just depends on what you want to camera to do for you and best fits your needs.
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