Sealife Cameras

[octopiis]

My dad is getting me a camera for graduation, and I was liking what I was seeing about the sealife dc1000. Does anybody have any input or experience with these cameras? Thanks.

[David]

Hi, welcome to the forums! What's an octopiis? (Plural of octopus is octopuses)

Re the camera, looks ok but it all depends upon what you intend to do with it now and in the future. This http://www.sealife-cameras.com/cameras/dc1000_maxx.html would probably be your best bet with that camera but beware that there's only one photo in the gallery and it was with this setup (and the photo looks like it's been cleaned up in photoshop too).

I'd ask the pros in http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/underw ... tography/# what they think after reading through their posts... it's been awhile since I bought a camera but my setup is a Canon Rebel XTi in an Ikelite housing with dual strobes, wide angle lens and a macro setup. That lets me shoot just about anything I want... but looking at your specs http://www.sealife-cameras.com/cameras/ ... specs.html I notice there is no manual shooting and you can't shoot in RAW and you only have 3 white balance settings to choose from. If you practice a lot and take tons of photos you should be able to take photos similar to those I took on our expeditions at http://marinebio.org/Research/Expeditions/ which were mostly taken with a Canon Powershot G5 which has half the megabytes yours does. Get the wide angle lens first and then any macro you can. Practice using the camera on land until you know it without looking at it and then with the lens and strobes until it's second nature. THEN take it diving. Lastly, read and memorize the manuals and take them with you when you go diving so they're handy.