Sub-Aqua Shot Time!

[camerajuan]

Sooooo, I'm heading to Tunisia in 4 weeks and due to my camera being awesome for £40 yet unable to work properly after I dropped it whilst intoxicated, I need a new snapper.

Waterproof a must. Not a Practika. Less than £100 if possible but can go £120 at a push.

Any thoughts/ideas/hints welcomed.

[Glaucus]

The choice isn't great at that price.
I have an fuji xp30, which worked well, but had its annoyances.

First camera let a tiny amount of water in and made the. Sensor go black but left over night it dried out and worked fine. Fuji replaced it and had no issues on my America Holliday with it.howver after taking it in water, when I got backup hotel, dried the outside thoroughly, opened it up, removed battery and Ed card and left it open all night. So m not entirely sure if it was totally fine or my prevention worked.

It's a bit slo at taking pictures for underwater, and IMO its to wide an angle lense, and you need to use the zoom a fair bit.underwtaer you need to set scree brightness to max to have any chance. It also rally really struggles with dark shots and shots with a strong light source, however it still possible to get some great shots. The next camera I found which seems to be better is the tf3 but at over £200 isn't in our price range.
I'm reluctant to recommend it but for the price, it seemed to be the best out there when I researched it. There's also a newer model out now the xp50, xp150 and xp170 I don't know how that stacks up.

Some sample pics I took in as on the xp30

Originally Posted by Glaucus

Absolutely ***** amazing.
Australia is such a nice country or at least the west side.
So friendly, clean and crime free, especially anti social behaviour.
Absolutely fell in love with snorkelling.
And backpacking tours are awesome, stunning way to do a Holliday on your own. Meat some great people and have an absolute blast.








However it was insanely expensive £7 a pint £3 for a 600ml bottle of coke, £15+ for burger and chips at a pub.
Public transport in Perth however is amazing and stupidly cheap and large.
Went 80km south of Perth for the wedding on a day ticket which was about £4.

The backpackers tour was Perth to Brooke which is most of the west coast and stopped at the important places.
Was not impressed at all with money Mia and felt sorry for the dolphins and didn't enjoy the experience at all.
Karajini national park was absolutely amazing, wish I was fitter, would love to go back and do the level 6+ gorges, which require abseiling, canning and the like.
Broome was a nice beach town with a party atmosphere and was a great place to get messy after several days in the outback.
Pinnacles was nice to see, but pretty boring.
Coral beach was spectacular, sunset picture.
Ningaloo reef was stunning, so much sea life (close up picture of fish)

At the end I went to rottnest island for a week on my own, dirt cheap accommodation. Again snorkelling was amazing and teaming with sea life. Stick your head under the water and you'll see fish straight away. The ray? Pic and the quokka pic (so qute)

Perth was a lovely place, was amazed how popular small breweries are in Australia and little creatures was a popular one in Freemantle, went there three times in first week. Don't go to Scaraborough it's where all the chavs go. Only stayed their one night and it was pants.
Freemantle is a lovely place and hillarys harbours is posh and nice to go one evening. North ridge won for me amazing multiculturalism and entertainment. Big tv all year round in one little corner park. It's the diverse, young hippie area.

However if I was doing long flights again 20+ hours I would have a stop over. 11hr flight was fine but then another 9-10hr flight afterwards was a killer and on the way back 9hrs in the airport. I would also spend the extra and fly with Quantas. Thai airlines is cheap for a reason, but it should be more than £150 less.

I found with underwtaer, everything's moving, reflections, can be cloudy. You need to be trigger happy and then delete about 80% off the shots.