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Underwater camera for holidays

Started Feb 6, 2020 | Discussions thread
Yar1971 Regular Member • Posts: 409
Re: Underwater camera for holidays

I use underwater compact camera mostly above water (kayaking, You know ) so I'm not an expert here, saying delicately.

But, but: according to lenstip.com aka optyczne.pl Fuji XP series is not the best in this class of camera in terms of image quality. They are much cheaper than their rivals like Oly TG's, Pana FT's, Nikon W's, but those give much better photo. Some Ricoh WG's too.

Every 1-2 years optyczne.pl makes a comparable test of most popular current underwater camera models. I'm not sure if they translate them into their English webpage (lenstip), but their opinion about Fuji in underwater camera class repeats everytime. They classify separately most impotrant features of tested models, like photo quality under/above water, video under/above water, built quality, ergonomy etc.

Note, it doesn't mean that Fujii's are useless or so. Simply in this case their lower price reflects their lower exellence in image quality, too.  Just one factor to concern before the choice, nothing more.

Regards

-J.

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