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gargamel · 02-12-2010, 09:49 AM

I would think that you could get a slightly better deal than that, but I don't have any suggestions, so I'm mostly useless there.

I have one and I love it, but the zoom is pretty bad. For the whole thing to be encased to be waterproof, the poor zoom is inevitable unless the camera is huge, so that's something that you'll be stuck with. If you aren't trying to zoom in on anything, I don't see why you'd need another camera for basic shots, and there are enough megapixels that you can zoom in digitally without making it look too bad.

I haven't done anything too crazy with mine, but it was nice to be climbing up a ladder on a snorkel boat with it banging around and not worry having to worry about it getting damaged.

02-12-2010, 09:49 AM	#2
gargamel First Line Centre Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Cambodia Exp:	I would think that you could get a slightly better deal than that, but I don't have any suggestions, so I'm mostly useless there. I have one and I love it, but the zoom is pretty bad. For the whole thing to be encased to be waterproof, the poor zoom is inevitable unless the camera is huge, so that's something that you'll be stuck with. If you aren't trying to zoom in on anything, I don't see why you'd need another camera for basic shots, and there are enough megapixels that you can zoom in digitally without making it look too bad. I haven't done anything too crazy with mine, but it was nice to be climbing up a ladder on a snorkel boat with it banging around and not worry having to worry about it getting damaged.