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Compact Underwater Camera – Panasonic DMC-TS3

Our very first rave. This camera performs fantastically underwater and also works as a high-quality point and shoot. We took nearly 1,000 photos the first week we owned the camera. Heather prefers orange, but it does come in several colors!

Enjoy some of our underwater photos below.

Brain Coral

Christmas-tree worms

Wrasse

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Ultra-zoom Mid-size Camera – Fujifilm HS 20-EXR

We picked up this camera after our Canon Powershot S5-IS died. Several things steered me towards this one; a reasonable price, nice feature-set, manual zoom, good reviews, and best of all, regular AA batteries! No need to buy a second proprietary (read: expensive) Li-ion battery for this one, I use regular rechargeable Ni-MH batteries and keep a spare set of regular alkaline AA’s in the bag just in case. Great bang for the buck.