|
I used the pentax w30 for snorkeling on my honeymoon in th carribean and it excels at somthings and is weak in other areas. Overall, I think it's a great camera especially for the price. Some of the weak points of the camera are photography in low light (need to really tweak settings and create a program for low-light under program mode), LCD gets washed out under bright lights and when viewed at certain angles, auto-focus is a little slow (but very manageable). Underwater photography was great for a $230 camera. lcd was a little difficult to see at times through the mask, but I was pleased with the quality. It's compact and durable. Takes nice photos on land for a point and shoot. Tons of different options in the menu to tweak things and you need to. It's not a camera that you leave on the "auto" setting and great pictures all the time. You need to put some time into and tweak the settings and save them as programs for different conditions. I bought this camera for strictly a beach/snorkeling camera for my trip and now plan on using it as a fishing camera. I did however have water get through the seal and ruin the camera, however it was replaced free of charge. This was after hours of submerged use. I think I got some of the really fine powdery sand in the seal when I was changing cards on the beach.
So far as a fishing camera it rocks. Worry free and simple to use.
|