Everything You Wanted To Know About Underwater Cameras

Choosing the best underwater cameras are difficult not just like choosing a simple digital camera, it’s more to that. Digital cameras are more useful when it comes to underwater photography. Underwater digital camera has the ability of allowing us to see right after the photo was taken, which also can be used to share photos among your friends.

Types Of Underwater Cameras

There are few varieties of underwater cameras such as compact, mirrorless and DSLR which consist of lens choices with great optics, incompatible focal lengths, greater image quality, reduced shutter lag and focused delays. Shooting with DSLR is quite joy compared to compact cameras. And sometimes DSLR features like lag and focus delay is not that crucial when capturing non-moving subjects.

The big difference among these underwater cameras is DSLR and mirrorless can take different lenses where compact has only one attached lens. Wet lenses are used to overcome this problem in compact cameras.

Best Waterproof Digital Cameras

The few of the best underwater cameras include Olympus TG-4, Sony RX-100, Canon G7X and Canon G16. And from these Olympus TG-4 is one of the best Waterproof Digital Camera consists with lots of features. This 16 mega pixel compact camera is not only waterproof, but also shockproof, crushproof, freeze proof and dustproof. This also has dive housing for underwater photography.

In addition to that, Olympus TG -4 comes under Tough range of cameras which offers full protection. Other best features include GPS and Wi-Fi built-in, a bright f/2 25-100mm lens, 16 megapixel backlit CMOS sensor, aperture-priority shooting mode, Raw file support and 1080p Full HD movies. These cameras come in red and black housing and for reasonable cost around $349/$379.

Canon powerShot G7 X is another best waterproof Digital camera in the top list of waterproof cameras. This has the best features like 20MP BSI CMOS sensor, 24-100mm lens, clicking control dial around lens, Flip-up rear touchscreen, built in ND filter and Wi-Fi with NFC. G7x is one of the best innovative product when considering canons constant manufactures. The styling and size of the camera just like an S- series. Combination of touch screen, dedicated exposure compensation dial and clicking control dial lens gives higher capability of direct control for such a small digital camera. And also this allows you to capture 1080/60p video footage at up to 60 fps in MP4 format. An HDMI output lets you play back videos on your compatible HDTV.