www.muttznutz.net

Underwater photography by Andy Kirkland

Choosing an Underwater Compact Camera

I’ll be expanding on this topic as time goes on.

In my view, these are the key points (for me .. and in no particular order) :

  • Is a housing available ? (stating the obvious)
  • Does it have Aperture / Shutter / Manual priority modes ?
  • Megapixels / resolution ?
  • “Shutter lag”
  • Shot-to-Shot time
  • Batteries ?
  • Shot capacity
  • White balancing options
  • RAW format ?
  • Zoom range
  • Lens
  • Macro mode
  • Strobe (flashgun) availability
  • Options – add-on lenses, filters etc.
  • (recent feature) image stabilisation
  • “My mode” / user presets

Of course, some of these “trade off” against others.
For example, shooting in RAW mode will slow down shot-to-shot, and will also reduce the number of images you can fit on a memory card.

The URI to TrackBack this entry is: https://muttznutz.net/muttzblog/equipment/choosing-an-underwater-compact-camera/trackback

RSS feed for comments on this post.


Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict