Digital Camera for fishing

"Fred Lebow" wrote in message
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I am looking for a small rugged waterproof digital camera that I can take
fishing - w some kind of zoom capacity.
What can anyone suggest ? - not too expensive.

I do not want to take my main Minolta A2 -too big

What do the rest of you use?

Thanks
Fred
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Fred Lebow


Here's the one I carry:
http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQueri...equestid=22965
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2005_reviews/p850.html
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/ce/Ko...pict36344.html

I'm very happy with it.

Skwala

In article , rw56
says...
Charlie Choc wrote:
Fred Lebow wrote:

I read a review on the Optio WP
It has no view finder and the review said that the screen was impossible to
view in sunlight.
Is this true?


I can see the image in mine OK in sunlight.

I'd really like to have a viewfinder.

I can see my screen in the sunlight, but I rarely use it
since my camera has a viewfinder too.
- Ken

On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 05:47:49 GMT, "CalifBill"
wrote:


"Fred Lebow" wrote in message
...
I am looking for a small rugged waterproof digital camera that I can take
fishing - w some kind of zoom capacity.
What can anyone suggest ? - not too expensive.

I do not want to take my main Minolta A2 -too big

What do the rest of you use?

Thanks
Fred
--
Fred Lebow



Sony DSC-60U. If you can find one, they will be cheap. Good pictures, 2 mp
and can shoot underwater.

I can't imagine a lens that is good for both UW and dry land - look to
the Nikonos V and RS and the 35mm lens that supposedly was a
dual-purpose, but not really much good for either (macro excepted, but
who wants a macro-only PnS digital?). If the Sony mentioned is a
fixed-lens, I'd be skeptical.

TC,
R

"Mike McGuire" wrote in message
k.net...
SimRacer wrote:
"Fred Lebow" wrote in message
et...
I read a review on the Optio WP
It has no view finder and the review said that the screen was
impossible
to
view in sunlight.
Is this true?

*Most* LCD screens on still and video cameras and the like are nearly
impossible to read in sunlight. It's not limited to just Optio cameras.

We seem to have come full circle from photography as it was a century
ago. Obviously what one has to do is put it on a tripod, attach a
focusing cloth and get under it and view it. To make it perfect of
course we would need to have the image displayed upside down.

Mike

I do it, all the time - view upside down images that is. Of course I'm a
photographic dinosaur and still use my trusty Yashicamat 124g with great
regularity. I have digicams, even a DSLR too, but nothing beats the end
result from a medium format film frame as far as quality IMO. Except maybe a
view camera's large format output. Seemed to work out for Ansel and the old
boys from back in the day...of course they used the aforementioned cover
cloth, so maybe that is the secret.

Fred Lebow wrote:
I read a review on the Optio WP
It has no view finder and the review said that the screen was impossible to
view in sunlight.
Is this true?


It *is* dim.

My Optio WP crapped out after a year and less than 250 pictures.