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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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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.
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.
this camera would not exactly be ‘ground-breaking’. Olympus have been producing a camera like this for a while now.
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.
10m is everything, if your UW case suddenly fills with water!
This happend to my Canon S80, may it rest in peace…
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….