Hello there !

I am totally new to this topic and i was wondering if the olympus 770SW was a good deal.
I have been browsing for a serious amount of time but was not able to find more than
1,2 underwater pictures from this camera, and that not a full resolution which is sort of
not really very conclusive. A lot of times images can look okay bv shrinking them :=).
does anyone have a series of full res sample pics ????

* what i want to do

snorkel and snooba down to 8 m maybe topscc nothing more. Locations
key west, bahamas.

* what i don’t know

I have a nikond70 i could afford the housing. Would that be
the better choice still ? I checked the outdoor pics of the 770Sw and while
not horrifiying they are ( of course ) no match to the nikon. Would i even
need a flash in clear water ? This is clearly the most important point because
buying an external flash ,arm and housing well that jsut too much atm.
I know i will have to balance the colors afterwards but im confident I will
succeed in that.
There are many pros and cons i believe in choosing a very small compact
camera which imho eventually can be simplified down to. “Ease and comfort
,but sacrificing quality” I am not totally opposed to a small cam, i can only
imagine its way more fun running around with a pocket size cam instead
of a huge SLR in the heat of July :=).

George

Actually someone referred the fuji finepix to me due to its
iso 3200 capability.I think Im going to go with this package,
There are some sample links below on that article and they look
amazing, even the video quality seems to be okay. Priciing
is also exceptional.

http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/9195/fuji_finepix_f30_underwater_housing/

I still wonder at what depth light becomes a problem3m, 5m ?
Does it help to mount a strong led light on the case to help out
at all ? Theres an additional slave available via arm that supposedly
syncs auto with the ( according to tests very strong ) inbuilt flash, not really
that expensive either. This seems to be a very neat price effective
package alltogether.

regards
George

Librarian - 13 June 2007 09:21 AM

Actually someone referred the fuji finepix to me due to its
iso 3200 capability.I think Im going to go with this package,

Dear George,

welcome to our Forum on DIGIDEEP.com… I just cross-read your long post and
stumbled over this statement. I just wanted to warn you that ISO 3200 is not
the most important feature for underwater photography.

You should also ask how noise-less the camera is at ISO 3200.
I doubt that this is working well for underwater photography as you will
certainly fail in producing clean blues at this ISO or even a lower ISO.

There is more to consider and I am confident that more users will chime
in to give you different aspects of purchasing the right equipment.

Meanwhile check our database. Each camera has a section called:
important features for underwater photography

thank you for the tip, I made sure to test the picture samples under all iso values, and I must say up to iso 800 its bearable
i think semi auto, iso auto(max400,800) should work out fine. This camera especially has the by far best no noise under
higher iso values compared to about every other compact. I will post some pictures asap.