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Snorkelers & Divers! Inexpensive Camera Options Underwater Shooting
South Pacific Reef
A friend of the magazine just asked us for the short answer the best camera for a casual-diver’s trip the Great Barrier Reef. The budget is around $300. So we passed the question on to an expert photographer and diver for the bottom-line. With winter coming you might be contemplating plans for a warm-weather getaway so we thought you might find this helpful for your own forays into snorkeling or recreational scuba diving.
A FEW INEXPENSIVE CAMERA OPTIONS FOR SNORKELING & SCUBA DIVING
Olympus Tough TG-1. Ok to 40-feet and doesn’t need a housing. F/2 lens.
Advantage:
Here’s a link to the camera to the camera on the Backscatter website: http://bit.ly/Tg5eFc
If you want to get a land-based camera and a housing, I’ve found my Canon P&S camera/housings to be bulletproof and a good price/performance ratio. This is the current version of the one I use.
Advantages:
Here’s a link to the Canon S90 and the Canon housing at Backscatter: http://bit.ly/S52PNp
A GoPro setup is also a cool option. This is a link to Backscatter’s Hero/Hero2 starter setup: http://bit.ly/WJdznv. The Hero3 starter setup should be available soon. More money but a cool choice for easy underwater video.
Advantages:
The DEMA show is in Las Vegas in November and there will likely be some other new announcements there.
You didn’t ask, but for anyone going to the GBR for a short time, intro dives (also called Discover Scuba dives) are a great way to go. You learn some skills and you do scuba real dives under tight supervision at shallow depths. There are a LOT of great shallow dives to be done on the GBR. If you’re going to be there for more time, you can do a full scuba certification course to become an Open Water diver.