Sony Cybershot and Marine pack for newbie

[leapfrog]

I am not an avid photographer on land and I have never used a camera underwater. Now I want to get an easy to use camera for taking shots of marine life and students and divers so they have a take home memento.

I'm a big Sony fan (I got one of the first VAIO notebooks when they came out) and I want something that's compact, slim and easy to use both in an out of the water with the minmum need for additional lighting and so on.

There are so many models... I would like some advice. Thanks in advance.

(If your advice is "get another brand", please refrain from posting)

 

[jph6t]

+ 1 for CyberShots in the Marine Pack.

I've had good luck with mine ... even w/o strobe light.

 

[Cecil]

As a long time Sony/Marine Pack user, I can not recommend them. Why, the Sony color balance function just does not work correctly underwater. The pictures will always come out to green. Now you can look on my profile/web page and my web page for hundreds of examples, all the later ones are with a Sony DSC-P150.

I recently switched over to an Olympus and could not be more pleased with the color balance. I actually get blues nows, previously it would take some color shifting to get that with my Sony.