Waterproof video camera

[dcooper]

Can anyone recommend a good waterproof video camera?

[Peter-CA]

Depends on your definition of good.

I have the Oregon Scientific ATC-2K, GoPro Hero, and Pentax Optio W20 and W80. All are waterproof and all take videos, but with various pros and cons. I did reviews of these on my blog at:
http://peter-singlespeed.blogspot.com/2 ... video.html
http://peter-singlespeed.blogspot.com/2 ... amera.html

The versions I use are generally not the most recent, but I have looked at the more recent versions to see how they improved (or not) over the older versions I used for the review.

You won't be shooting film for a This Is The Sea type video on one of these, but great for home videos or Youtube.

[dcooper]

Thanks Peter. These seemed rather low end. Do you have any info for something more middle of the road, say $500 to $1,000? Much appreciated for any info you cna offer.

[nickayak]

Hi there,

get an Olympus, any of their waterproof, shockproof cameras will do it, and they survive anything, I have had 3 Pentax die on me....
but the 1 Olympus is still going, surviving surf and all kind of treatments..
possibly look up the Sanyo ( http://sanyo.com/xacti/english/products ... index.html) it's bigger but gives you HD videos and a 30 Optical zoom, but I don't think it will take the beating in the surf very long...
The GOPro gives HD and will survive anything (plus it's a wide angle if you like that), but you can't view any footage until you get home, and it's a little bit tiresome to deal with the settings ( there is only 3 buttons to set your setting...) plus you get raw files and some people have trouble dealing with them,
do some reading on those and pick your poison,
Happy paddling,
look up some videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/Activeseakayaking some from Olypus some from Go Pro.
but you lose the quality when you upload...
Nick