underwater camera recommendations?

Looking for ideas on practical and reliable ways to capture underwater photos. I own a sony cybershot (H-series), however, am a bit concerned about buying a marine pack for it. Looking for experiences w/ various one-time-use cameras, marine packs, rental equipment, etc. Also Looking for links for recommended products. Thanks a ton for your help.

underwater camera recommendations?

I know Ocean Divers rents cameras to use on their dives and I think a couple other dive operators do as well. No idea of price.

I have seen the results of the disposable underwater cameras and in my opinion, they were a waste of effort and money.

Though not digital, I have seen good results from the Nikonos (Nikon) underwater cameras. Steve Frink, who is the local professional underwater photographer used a Nikon D2X with the hard housing for it. His work is beautiful, but, the camera (body only) was $5000+ and the pro underwater housing was $5000+.

underwater camera recommendations?

I have a Canon digital, and bought a water proof case made just for that camera. I guess that is what you mean by a ';Marine pack';.

It works great for us. The trick to getting any kind of decent photo below more than about 10%26#39; is in using a flash, which works with the pack.

I am totally an amateur, but we are able to get some nice shots, and I love having the digital, so we can take lots and lots, and get the few good shots.

About 15 years ago we rented a camera from a dive shop, have no memory of cost. We got shots that are ok because we recognize who we are, but there certainly are no great colors in those photos. I don%26#39;t remember what it was, though I do know it wasn%26#39;t a disposable.

I%26#39;ve had some decent results with my favorite Olympus 5060 in a PT020 case. As it%26#39;s quite bulky I don%26#39;t take it on every dive. I also use an older/smaller Canon A85 in Canon WP-DC30 housing which gives reasonable results.

Lighting is the key issue. A shallow reef with clear viz and mid day sun helps but a good strobe system is recommended. The built in flash is not as good.

I recently buddied an experienced diver on a couple of dives on Molasses reef - she swore by a relatively small Sea %26amp; Sea camera with two adjustable strobe arms that she was using - it looked pretty good.

It depends what you want and the type of diving. If you want results like Martin Edge you need to spend some serious money but he also uses other cameras for decent underwater %26#39;snaps%26#39;.