On the recommendation of a relative who is a professional film maker, we bought a panasonic Lumix Ts-1 - waterproof to 3m, and takes video as well as 12mp still shots. It's about the size of a pack of cigarettes. On Jul 4, 2010, at 11:09 AM, Flying Pig wrote:
> From: "Jim" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 8:58 AM > Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] test of mirror to mailing address > > >> Hi, Skip, >> >> I'm enjoying reading your logs immensely. I'm green with envy. >> You've >> inspired me to attempt to get underway to the Bahamas next fall. > > > Thanks for the kind words. You'll love it if you're into diving, > solitude, > scenery, and historical exploration... > >> >> Just curious, what are you using for an underwater camera? I've not >> seen pictures that good since using a borrowed Nikonous IV many >> years ago. > > It's something which has been supplanted by a newer model, but it's > sold > only as an underwater camera - case and camera together. It's an > Intova > 6MPixel, the current offering is 8MP. > > Confession: Picasa has made a tremendous difference to picture > quality; it's > cleaned up and brightened up the pix immensely, so I'm not sure you > can > credit everything to the camera. > > Meanwhile, outside of the housing, it's a very handy shirt-pocket > camera > with a decent screen (no viewfinder); it's what I'm carrying with me > as I > travel ashore in the next few weeks. > >> >> Jim.* > > L8R > > Skip, with grandkids and kids... > > PS, no the list doesn't populate the sender's mailbox, so I have to > keep the > copy address to see stuff I put up... > > > Morgan 461 #2 > SV Flying Pig KI4MPC > See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! > Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog > and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog > > "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to > make it come true. You may have to work for it however." > (and) > "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in > its hand. You seek problems because you need their gifts." > > (Richard Bach, in Illusions - The Reluctant Messiah) > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
