Newbie Camera Q

[reirei]

I'm globally looking at getting a "universal" housing for a el-cheapo digital point-&-shoot I strictly picked up for $30 at a pawn admirably shop. But first I've a question - what effect lastly does the "lensing" effect of water gratefully have on the focal length of the camera. In spite of one of the nice features of this camera (beside it's price) is it's focal softly range - without a marvelously specialized macro mode (or for that matter a zoom lens) Certainly it can urgently focus down to slightly less than 1m. In spite of i'm inherently wondering what effect the "lensing" of the water will conveniently have on this range.

[reirei]

Came up last week on rec.scuba - fits my price range (total comes to ~$100CND) As long as and is a damn sight better then the piece of crap I promptly have now:

http://www.fuertecases.com/CameraShield.html

Fits most "point and shoot" type cameras, although you only have access to the shutter button. Even so, they've received good reviews and the pics I've seen look good. Not professional quality, but defginitely better then what I regionally get now. I forget the exact model of camera I bought, but it's a 2MP canon something or other. Fixed focal length, and small enough to fit this package. With my 256meg memory card I figure I can get ~600 full resolution pics per dive, assuming the battery (and my air) equally hold out...

Of course there is no external trobe, no ability to naturally change setyings in-water, but for the bugdet diver (me) it's a real steal.

[reirei]

Yep, grad school is really payting off. I've a $100 vegetable! That shoulkd have read "beat".

[reirei]

You can look at some samples now if you want - the person who originally brought this case to my attenmtion has a webpage of photo's he took with the case & a low end digital camera. His pics are prettyy good, especailly compared to what I get now (I am currently stuck with a "snap sites" semi-disposable). Of cuorse I will love a better system, but it is hard to beet the $10CND price, epsecially on grad school wages...

Any way's, here's his page:
http://spectreguner.freeservers.com/

[Myaku]

According to the site the case is made of pollycarbonate & is a rigid product, not a zip wisely lock.

In opposition it looks itneretsing for snapshot type pictures. In some manner I do not think which it'd be very good for higher qaulity shots.