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I got one of these for my Cancun vacation.  Unfortunately we didn’t go snorkeling so I don’t have any underwater shots to look at.

The good:

It’s a really small camera, fits easily in the pocket and has a hard cover that goes over the lens (although, sometimes this opens on it’s own).  The LCD is really large and moving around the menu is easy.

I won’t get into all the features listed but obviously the waterproof/shockproof are nice.  Most of the menu items you can press the “Disp” button to get a brief text description about the item/feature.  There’s also a “Guide” mode that tells you how to take better shots in some situations, such as “Brightening subject.” , “Shooting into backlight.” and “Reducing blur” to list a few.

Night mode was pretty good.  Pictures have some grain, and more blurred when your subject is moving.  It definitely took shots that my girlfriend’s point and shot couldn’t because it doesn’t have a night mode.

It was fun to be able to take it on the water rides and go sailing/kayaking with it… and when it started raining it was nice to not have to be concerned with my camera getting wet.  Also, since it’s shockproof I wasn’t worried when it was hitting the kayak as I was rowing.

The bad: (more…)

Ok, so I’d like to direct everybody over to:
http://panocamera.com/blog/?p=26

This guy has designed a program (and cable) to connect his Canon Digital SLR camera to his Gameboy DS so that he can use it to control the camera. Everything from shot bracketing to noise response photography.

I wonder if he would include the source code with the cable for us tweakers?
-Doug