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mid range ($) apsc camera and housing

Started Jun 28, 2020 | Discussions thread
PHXAZCRAIG
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Re: mid range ($) apsc camera and housing

At 30 dives, I'd consider that still more a beginner than intermediate, but it depends on the diver and where they dive I suppose.

Back in the day...  it would be fairly easy to give recommendations because there were more choices.   It was quite easy to pick up a Canon point-n-shoot + matching housing new for under $500.   Now that whole class of cameras is mostly gone.   But it was a class well-suited to new photographers.

The nice thing about a point-n-shoot is that you can just strap it to your wrist and let go of it when you get into a diving situation that takes your attention away.   If you get to a bigger camera, especially with strobes, it's just harder to ignore it and be able to drop it.

Today's cheap equivalent is probably a cell phone in a $300 Kraken case.   Or perhaps an Olympus TG5.

Unless going used, where the sky is the limit in terms of what you might find for your budget, it seems the money might be spent not just on a camera in a housing, but perhaps also a wet lens, or perhaps a focus/video light.

If going for interchangeable lens cameras, you're generally not talking about a beginner diver, nor a diver's first underwater camera.

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