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Tips for buying digital camera underwater
It is often not possible to capture the beauty of life underwater with normal camera, but thanks to underwater digital camera, now you can explore marine life. An underwater camera is a camera specially designed for digital still and video used to capture photography of flora and fauna amazing marine life.
You can capture still images of marine life and can fire while scuba diving. Surely protected with waterproof housing, these digital cameras are designed to be completely submerged under water and resist efforts surrounding pressure. The smaller models of the underwater cameras are usually ideal for up to two hundred feet four hundred feet, while digital cameras are larger for the deeper water regions.
As compared to film-based cameras under water, underwater digital cameras are much better and don `t run out of film. Yon can also delete any bad shots or change to a low resolution image mode in low light. No history blurred and the edges as seen in the film underwater camera, with its wide-angle photography, underwater digital camera offers clearer images.
Available in all sizes, shapes and film format, many underwater digital cameras also come with the viewer function that helps in setting image for photography. With some nice prints, the digital meters camera produces better images that are actually useful to amateur photographers.
However, underwater digital camera is not only meant for deep-sea divers. Most underwater digital cameras available today days can also be used to take photos of drylands in the harsh climatic conditions such as severe rain and snow. Adorned with multi-function flash, color correction filter and macro lens, underwater digital camera offers excellent image quality. Like a normal digital camera, this camera underwater digital also comes with 15MB of memory, along with the storage, editing and manipulation software.
If you wonder why underwater digital camera model to choose, what features to consider, then here is a brief guide discusses the characteristics of some prominent models underwater digital camera.
Panasonic SDR-SW20:
This compact model is for those who want an easy to use and light underwater digital camera. With 10x optical zoom and MPEG-2 to 10 Mb / s, this is one of the best digital cameras available for video recording. However, with only 0.3 MP still images at 640×480-building, the still picture options are almost nonexistent in this new model.
Pentax Optio W30:
One of the pioneers in the market for digital cameras underwater, the current 7MP Optio W30 comes with ISO1600 and function with 3x optical zoom image recording. With the support of SD and SDHC, Videos in this underwater digital camera is 640×480 QuickTime MOV format MJPEG format.
Sanyo Xacti VPC-E1:
This is the one of the best designed digital cameras underwater for up to 5feet water depth. With 4 GB card and MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 at 640×480 powers, Xacti E1 allows shooting with a record time over approximately 5 hours. For still images, this digital camera offers a solid with a 5x optical zoom 6 megapixel CCD in power until ISO1600. A key feature of this camera underwater digital screen is the vision that has pull it avoids the risk of colliding with objects under water while swimming.
Olympus SW series:
At 10 Megapixels, ISO 1600, and a 3.6x optical zoom function, Olympus may also be one of the most well-rounded digital cameras underwater. With an underwater depth up to 6.6 meters, this is the deepest water of digital cameras in the list.
Intova IC-700 7.0MP digital camera with underwater housing:
Available at a reasonable price of about $ 300, this underwater digital camera has with 7 megapixels, macro mode and a built-in flash that can reach five meters under water.
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