What are some good underwater cameras?

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Bill Jense

I have a price range of no more than $450.
I don't have a camera, so I can't just buy an underwater housing.
When I say underwater camera, what I really mean is scuba diving camera, waterproof to at least 100 ft.

Answer
Latest waterproof cameras are quite good. On very rare occasions they come faulty, but the same is with regular digital cameras.
If you want camera, that makes good quality pictures on land or underwater, then I would suggest to look into these three cameras: Sony TX5, Panasonic Lumix TS2 and Olympus Rough 8010.
And all three of them cost less than $300 on Amazon.
You just need to decide which features you need more:
Sony TX5 is waterproof to 10 ft, when Panasonic TS2 and Olympus Rough 8010 are both waterproof to 33ft. And Sony TX5 has got the lowest resolution from these three. It's just 10.2 megapixels. Panasonic and Olympus have a resolution of 14MP, which is quite a great difference.
All cameras are shock-, dust-, sand- and freeze-proof. But Olympus 8010 is also a crushproof and designed to withstand a weight up to 220 pounds.
Sony TX5 gives you the opportunity to capture panoramic pictures with it's Sweep Panorama feature. Your images are automatically stitched together, which gives you the extra-wide view of the scenery.
Olympus 8010 has got the panoramic shooting option too. It also comes with a built-in 2GB memory, which is more than most cameras available on the market.
Panasonic TS2 has a good quality video recording. Although all these cameras record video in HD format. But Panasonic TS2 seems to be the most expensive out of them.
But if you do not need waterproof camera right now, Sony are releasing a new Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX10 in April 2011. It will have a resolution of impressing 16.2 megapixels. And it is going to be the first waterproof camera that can capture 3D still images. You can pre-order this camera and it costs $330.

I want to use a samson usb microphone (audio) and a kodak digital camera (video) to make movies, can I do it?

Michael

The camera has a mic built in, but I don't want to use it, I'd rather use the better quality Samson C01u usb microphone I have. So when I'm playing guitar, how do I use the Samson for audio and the Kodak for video. I can't "disable" the microphone inside the camera. Is there any solutions to this?

Answer
Yes - it is actually pretty easy. Use the camera to record the video and use the USB mic to record audio. In your video editing software, you can disable the audio from the camera and insert the audio file form your USB mic. You can also sync the audio so that it matches up with the video. I use Roxio software, but pretty much any video editing software will do this.

http://www.amazon.com/Roxio-246000-Creator-2011/dp/B004074Y42/ref=sr_1_1?s=software&ie=UTF8&qid=1291729697&sr=1-1

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How am I going to record 15 6-15 minute videos in one day if my Samsung camera does not require batteries?

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Forrest

It requires charging instead of batteries so how am I going to record 15 videos in 1 day without charging

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Sorry to tell you, but your camera does have a battery, or there would be NO power to operate it.

Too bad you neglected to tell us which Samsung camera you have.

Basically you will need to take your battery charger with you and charge it during lunch or other down time. You will also need to conserve your batteries energy. Do NOT use the LCD unless absolutely necessary. Avoid leaving the camera on between "takes" and use the zoom feature sparingly. If you have access to the mains during your shooting schedule, use an AC adapter to power your camera. That will help you a lot

When you say our are going to record 15, 6-15 minute videos, is that really true? Are you saying you have 15 different scripts and will be shooting enough raw footage so produce 6-15 minute videos from each script? That is a lot of work for just one day.

When I owned a video production company, we used to spend two or three days shooting the video for a 15 minute "how to do" video and about a week in post production. I am NOT including all the pre and post production meetings.

I think you need to rethink this project and look hard at your scripts to see if you can streamline this challenge a little.

A project this large will require you to have maybe three or four spare batteries on the charger during the whole day

Laws regarding pointing a camera outside of my home?

B.B. Gun

Last week my neighbor's car was vandalized, leading to me buying a security camera to film the spot where I park my own vehicle. I basically bought the biggest, most gaudy camera I could because I wanted people to see it and know to leave the area in front of it alone. Almost immediately a neighbor came to me to complain. She first accused me of filming her property (I showed her it actually only records the street its self), and then she said I could not film that area because it's not my property. She said if I don't remove the camera she'll bring legal charges against me.

I live in Upstate New York (not the city). I plan to consult the police to find out for sure, but in the mean time does anyone here know if she's right?

Answer
Filming your neighbor's house might be illegal. Filming the public street and your front yard should not be.

Legal or not, you aren't doing well on the being neighborly thing.

Replace the camera with a big sign that says 24 your video surveillance. Walk over and tell your neighbor that you understand her concerns and that you have removed the camera. The sign is just for deterrence and you have removed the camera.

If you feel strongly about having a camera, wait a few weeks and then secretly install a concealed camera that records only your driveway up to the edge of the road.

The camera is really only for deterrence anyway. If someone breaks into your car, you will still have a missing car, damage to your car and/or missing items from the car and a video of a dark, faceless smudge to show the police.

A better attack is to form a neighborhood watch program in conjunction with your local police department, have regular meetings of your neighbors so you all know each other and you all know who belongs where and when on your street. Distribute phone numbers so neighbors can report suspicious people on your street. Put a light in your driveway so it illuminates the car and front of the house without causing light problems with your neighbors and don't leave valuable items in your car.

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