Canon UW100 IS [CR2]
October 27th, 2008 Posted in Canon PowerShot
Hearing it again
Canon has a prototype of a niche market underwater PowerShot camera.
Specs:
12mp
3.5x Zoom (35mm wide)
3″ LCD
10meter/33foot underwater
Drop Resistant to 6 feet
Sand proof
Li-Ion Battery
Manual Controls
SD Card
This has been rumoured a while, and it’s definately a market Canon could sell cameras.
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October 27th, 2008 at 9:58 am
I hope they come out with a waterproof camera. I’m in the market for a high image quality, compact, waterproof camera, with a nice move mode (preferably HD). So far I haven’t found any cameras that I’m willing to pay for in that market. A lot of them look good on paper, but the images are very disappointing.
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October 27th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Many people buy the Olympus waterproof cameras when they go on vacation – the feature is a good selling point for these folks even if they never end up using it. Canon could sell quite a lot of these.
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October 27th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
this camera would not exactly be ‘ground-breaking’. Olympus have been producing a camera like this for a while now.
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October 28th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
I have no use for this. The best underwater camera for a reasonable price is the G9 and when the UW case is out it will be the G10 (wider lens). All my diving friends and UW photographers I know use the G9. 10m is nothing, the UE case of the G9 and IS1100 goes down to 40m.
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October 28th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
10m is everything, if your UW case suddenly fills with water!
This happend to my Canon S80, may it rest in peace…
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October 28th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
This is the camera I’ve been waiting for. I’m a Canon fan, but I got the Olympus 1040SW back in the spring before going on a vacation. It’s a great little camera, but the menu is just foreign to me. Everyone liked the camera when I went away, and it’s been to a few parties as well. So the camera has been from the ocean to a pool to a hottub, I wouldn’t do that with anything else. Except a Canon one….
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