New boat camera

Post by **Niner** » Sat Dec 19, 2015 3:38 pm

A boat camera should be water proof and not easily hurt by salt water spray. It doesn't matter that you aren't planning on swimming with it. It also has to be rugged enough to take falls and drops onto hard surfaces and not be affected by rough use. My Pentax Optio W20 has done all of that for years and has taken really good photos. It's just getting old and is a bit slow between shots...and it can't take shots in bursts. It being Christmas time, and I having some gift card money given to me recently as a present, I invested the money the whole $100 in a new boat camera. It is the Lumix DMC-TS30A. It has a 25 to 100 mm equivalent zoom. It does movies in MP4. I can be 25 feet under water and still work...so it is advertised. It can also stitch together panoramic photos and has a decent 16mp photo taking capacity. And.. you can get one for $100.

So I have been snapping some photos recently with the new camera. I took it out to the Flea Market today and did some "street photography" without the flash on. This presented a bit of a problem in that the camera often selected a slower than I would have liked shutter speed. It did fine where there was good light, but lacked some sharpness in dimmer light. But.... it does have a lot of programmed in choices and maybe I should have chosen better. But... here is a selection from recent snap shot taking.

My inside flash use has produced some good shots and some crappy ones...but I'll be using this camera outside so it won't matter. I have better... and more expensive camera's .....for that kind of thing.

One other thing... it is thin and small and fits into a shirt or pants pocket with no trouble.