kennb
Contributing Member
Posts: 37
|
Post by kennb on Apr 27, 2012 17:48:47 GMT -5
Just picked up a dandy little Canon WP-1 water proof camera. Have not tryed it out but for a buck it can be a shelf sitter. Probably needs a battery for sure. Picked up a nice Ollie for a buck at the same place,,,,it works very nicely. Thought I had it and was going to put it on my sale list. I have XB70 and this XB700 in that series now.
|
|
daveh
Lifetime Member
Posts: 4,696
|
Post by daveh on Apr 28, 2012 0:08:41 GMT -5
I always wanted an underwater camera and the Canon was one on the sensible short list. I say sensible because the other wish list had the Nikonos as the only entry.
After a few variations on the theme I ended up with a little Hitachi digital waterproof a couple of years ago. The pictures are reasonable and, unlike the old film cameras, there is video too.
|
|
Berndt
Lifetime Member
Posts: 751
|
Post by Berndt on Apr 28, 2012 9:28:46 GMT -5
|
|
daveh
Lifetime Member
Posts: 4,696
|
Post by daveh on Apr 28, 2012 14:29:22 GMT -5
Berndt, I trust he didn't go missing with it!
|
|
Berndt
Lifetime Member
Posts: 751
|
Post by Berndt on Apr 28, 2012 22:33:32 GMT -5
Hahaha ... no, he really lost in in the water. We have been in this holiday together. The really tragical thing happened as a result of this happening though. He got me a new one, which supposed to be an even better model ( some other japanese brand, I am afraid, I forgot which ). The problem was, that it only had a japanese manual and I couldn't read any japanese at that time. There obviously has been a small lever inside, which needed to be switched if inserting a new film ... otherwise ... and that is, what has happened, the film will not be taken on the spool. So coming back home from my really wonderful trip to the British Virgin Islands ( really one of the last paradises on earth ), I just had a bunch of unexposed films That has been a shock !!!
|
|
daveh
Lifetime Member
Posts: 4,696
|
Post by daveh on Apr 29, 2012 2:24:33 GMT -5
Not underwater, but my Panasonic FZ20 came from Japan.The camera itself just had Japanese and English menus. The software was only in Japanese. I can't remember if the manual was in English as well as Japanese. I already had the manual for the FZ1 and had been using that for a couple of years, so I knew how to work it. The FZ1 software was multilingual, so there was no problem thee either. I'm off to photograph a wedding today: with the rain as it is I shall possibly need an underwater camera.
|
|
Berndt
Lifetime Member
Posts: 751
|
Post by Berndt on Apr 29, 2012 9:19:27 GMT -5
Good luck, Dave !!! Wedding photography is actually much more difficult than people think. Getting all the important shots perfectly without failure ... I also never thought so in the past, but I noticed, that it is a quite difficult job.
|
|
|
Post by pompiere on Apr 29, 2012 13:03:53 GMT -5
I have two of the Canon WP-1 cameras. I thought the first one didn't work, as I tried it with a battery borrowed from another camera. When I got the second one, I had a different battery to test it, and it worked, so I tried the new battery with the other WP-1 and it worked as well. Apparently, they are sensitive to voltage, and a battery that is fine for some cameras will not be good enough for the WP-1. Also, some manuals, say not to submerge the camera at all, others say it is okay to 16 feet. I found an article on the web where a diver tested it down to about 45 feet and the camera started shooting continuously from the water pressure on the shutter button. However, he said there were no leaks and he could control the camera by turning it on and off. I'll take his word on that and keep mine for activities closer to the surface.
|
|