Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Underwater Digital Camera Reviews

Many people will be going to the nearest beach or river to cool down and rest when summer. In these conditions it’s nice to have camera that you don’t have to worry about water splashing and maybe even get into the water. Many manufacturers have offered waterproof housings for compact cameras or DSLR cameras with the high cost.

Underwater digital cameras have existed since 2002 and moving ahead along much the same lines as any others type of digital camera with faster processors, high and larger resolution sensors, built in image stabilizer, wider angle lenses and larger LCD screens.

Even if you are not going swimming, a waterproof digital camera has benefit for everyone capturing in challenging situations. As the zoom ranges and the resolutions increase, waterproof digital cameras are not necessarily just a specialist tool and can be your one and only digital camera. In underwater digital camera reviews and test, we are going to compare at seven of waterproof digital cameras to see how they perform underwater.

Underwater digital camera reviews and test :

We have selected seven digital waterproof cameras from the current range in underwater digital camera reviews and test for this group:

Canon PowerShot D10 Canon is the company's first waterproof digital camera),
• Olympus Stylus Tough 8000 (mju Tough 8000 in Europe)
• Olympus Stylus Tough 6000 (mju Tough 6000 in Europe)
• Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS1 (DMC-FT1 in Europe)
• Pentax Optio W60
• Pentax Optio W80 (W60 replacement),
• Fuji FinePix Z33WP

All underwater digital cameras in this group have compact pocketable dimensions except Canon D10 being a little too irregular in shape and too thick to fit comfortably into regular sized pockets.

• Five of the digital cameras in this group feature wide zoom lenses start at 28mm (Pentax W60, W80, Olympus Stylus Tough 6000 and 8000 and Panasonic TS1)
• Canon D10 and Tough 8000 can be taken as deep as 10 meters underwater.
• Canon D10, two Olympus Tough models and Panasonic TS1 built in Image stabilizer.
• All Resolutions underwater cameras in this group range from 10-12MP and can reach high sensitive of at least ISO 1600 and have all feature video recording.

The latest Pentax and Panasonic are the only waterproof digital cameras to offer the wide angle lenses and 30 fps HD video, but the current generation of waterproof digital cameras would stop working.

Battery lives in the underwater digital camera reviews and test are supplied by manufacturers, based on standardized CIPA tests. The figures, if not specified, are based on the LCD screen.

See also : Digital Waterproof Camera Reviews & Guide, Things You Should Know About Camera Underwater

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