Hi Mike,
Great post very informative!
Guy Hansen here, I'm a newbie to this board, hope I'm welcome since I've recently met most of the folks who post here?
I've been looking for a nice yak camera with a water housing so the tips here are very useful. I'm also on a budget after tying up major dinero in my Canon 20DSLR gear and lens ranges from 19mm to 600mm recently???
Did a little checking on the camera and agree it has some super nice features and the price is awesome! For starters, the Carl Zeiss lens is top notch for a small package, which explains why you have great picture results in low light! To my delight Amazon still had the packages you mentioned!!! One concern I had was repeated bad reviews on this camera regarding power issues??? (Here's a link to some reviews -
http://www.digitalcamera-hq.com/digi...0_reviews.html)
The problem gist is unexpected shut down, or not being able to shoot pictures, only able to look at pictures already on the memory card etc.?
One reviewer said the problems are all due to consumers using regular AA akaline batteries? He switched back to 2000+ maH grade Ni-MH batteries every thing worked perfectly?
Granted it's best to take reviews with "a grain of salt", but wanted to see if you are using the ni-mh batteries or have had any similar issues?.
Appreciate your opinions as the price and image quality is "spot on" this setup! I'm thinking of picking one up...
Thanks in advance,
Guy