Top 4 waterproof and rugged cameras compared, no more excuses for lack of underwater shots

By on Jun 07, 2012

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Gizmodo ranked four popular models of underwater & rugged point & shoot cameras

There’s a lot of underwater and rugged cameras being offered for sale these days, and many of them are gaining popularity for underwater and aquarium photography. If you’re tired of sharing blurry and blued-out phone-pics of your aquarium or you just want a way to literally take shots from inside your aquarium, you might get a lot of use out of an underwater camera. Gizmodo has put together a nice roundup of four popular underwater cameras discussing their respective benefits and drawbacks, not from an aquarium-photo perspective but chances are if you get one of these you will also use it out in the real world, like the LFS. The point & shoot camera that popularized the category of underwater rugged cameras, the Panasoni Lumix takes top Gizrank, but we have seen great pics and video clip made with all of these models. [Gizmodo]

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  • Sam Powell

    what about the Canon D20 that was just released?

  • http://twitter.com/clownfishman Hubert CLOWNFISHMAN

    .. now this is a good article

  • Spencer Matonis

    My Lumix is pretty fucking boss, just be extra careful and clean with FW after use

  • http://twitter.com/redbellyman Michael Shapiro

    confused why they wouldnt compare pentax Optio WG-2. things a beast with a built in macro ring

  • http://www.facebook.com/ted.molin.5 Ted Molin

    Im happy whit my Tough TG-810 :)

  • Bamboowho

    Like one of the guys in the comments says, I think GoPro is actually a pretty good option.  I have the GoPro Hero1, and it actually can take really good still photos.  The new Hero2 is supposed to be 2x better than mine.  And it can do like a 10 shots a sec. burst.  So you could catch a fish with his fins in just the right position or something.
    They also just released the new Wi-Fi backpack this past week, so you can use a wireless remote, and they are about to release an app for smartphones where you can use it as a view finder.