Suggestions for digital underwater camera?

[rainbowblues]

Hi I was wondering if anyone can suggest a digital camera and housing. I,m new to digital photography and have been using an MX-10 for the past 2yrs. The price range for a camera would be aprox. $450.00 {suggested to me was a Pentax Optio 430RS also the housing for this camera is $200.00.} I really could use some help, this digital stuff is very confusing to me.Thank You Rainbowblues

 

[Dee]

Scuba Board has a good Search feature. If you use it, you'll get over 20 pages of threads about digital cameras and alot of those are asking your same question.

Here are just a few...

Here
And here....
Here too...
And finally...here.

I'm a fan of Olympus digital cameras and housings but that's becasue I have one! Cannon also has an excellent line in their S-3XX and S-4XX cameras and housings. I would suggest no less than a 3 megapixel camera. It can still make decent 8x10 enlargements with the right compression and are reasonable priced. But You're gonna have to spend more than $450

 

[conchnclyde]

check this site out for specifications:

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/olympusc5050z/page2.asp

 

[rainbowblues]

I just wanted to thank Dee and Conchnclyde for the info. I did not know about Scuba Board's search feature. I,m new to this group.THANKS AGAIN,Rainbowblues