ScubaTrisha
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I know enough to do point and shoot with some great outcomes, but my point and shoot has broken an eyelid and the lense is exposed. Time for a new camera.
I have googled, researched, and gone store to store, website to website. I have now got enough knowledge to be messed up completely.
1) How long have you been diving? 1995
2) How many dives have you logged? none over the past few years (no buddy)
3) How much experience with general photography do you have? Lots with p&S
4) Do you currently have a camera? Film? Digital? 2 digital
5) How often do you dive? Lots when I have a buddy
6) What type of diving do you mostly do? wreck, drift, basic
7) Where do you do most of your diving? Freshwater, great lakes, small lakes
8) What do you think you may want to photograph the most? nothing specific
9) Do you have an idea what you may want already? HD video, P&S with the ability to adjust settings. Land, air, water,
10) How much do you expect to spend? Can you afford? 500-800
Adding personal specifics. I also cycle, dive, canoe, camp, and usually have my camera hanging off my purse somewhere. I don't want to be in the middle of Algonquin and discover leaky o rings in a 'waterproof' mean I've lost all pictures. I also don't want to by a dive camera to find out that it takes lousy land shots.
The SeaLife DC1200 isn't HD.
The Panasonic TS2 might be great in a canoe, waterproof to 33ft, shockproof, but it won't give me dive depth and I read that the land shots are washed out.
My local dive shop sells the SeaLife DC1200 package or the nikon/ikelite package, but again the Nikon is the L22 point and shoot and not HD.
I also want to be able to edit pictures and movies. Movie maker doesn't read .mov videos.
Any advice?
I have googled, researched, and gone store to store, website to website. I have now got enough knowledge to be messed up completely.
1) How long have you been diving? 1995
2) How many dives have you logged? none over the past few years (no buddy)
3) How much experience with general photography do you have? Lots with p&S
4) Do you currently have a camera? Film? Digital? 2 digital
5) How often do you dive? Lots when I have a buddy
6) What type of diving do you mostly do? wreck, drift, basic
7) Where do you do most of your diving? Freshwater, great lakes, small lakes
8) What do you think you may want to photograph the most? nothing specific
9) Do you have an idea what you may want already? HD video, P&S with the ability to adjust settings. Land, air, water,
10) How much do you expect to spend? Can you afford? 500-800
Adding personal specifics. I also cycle, dive, canoe, camp, and usually have my camera hanging off my purse somewhere. I don't want to be in the middle of Algonquin and discover leaky o rings in a 'waterproof' mean I've lost all pictures. I also don't want to by a dive camera to find out that it takes lousy land shots.
The SeaLife DC1200 isn't HD.
The Panasonic TS2 might be great in a canoe, waterproof to 33ft, shockproof, but it won't give me dive depth and I read that the land shots are washed out.
My local dive shop sells the SeaLife DC1200 package or the nikon/ikelite package, but again the Nikon is the L22 point and shoot and not HD.
I also want to be able to edit pictures and movies. Movie maker doesn't read .mov videos.
Any advice?