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The new standard in affordable Sports Photography. This full featured 6 MP camera, with a rugged and compact housing, fills all your photographic needs. Use the camera by itself for safe, protected environments or put it in the housing for Wet and Wild photo occasions. The polycarbonite housing has full button feature controls and is waterproof to 180 feet (54 meters). Other features include a 2.4" color LCD display, 12 X zoom (3x optical, 4x digital) and SD card capacity up to 2 gig.
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- Waterproof to 180 feet, 54 meters.- Double O-Ring design for added leak protection.
- Full function button control.
- Removable 46mm lens thread adapter.
- 2.4" color LCD display, 12 X zoom (3x optical, 4x digital) and SD card capacity up to 2 gig.
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By Anthony L. Jenkins (Nashville, TN)
The Intova IC600 is a decent camera, hobbled by a couple of very strong shortcomings. If it were just any old camera on the market, I'd say pass it by without a second look...but it's not just any old camera. For less than the price most companies charge for an underwater housing, Intova delivers both the housing and the camera. This makes your decision a bit more complicated.
The first (and largest) problem is the battery life. It's horrendous. With alkaline batteries you'll get maybe a hundred pics. With rechargeables (I use 2500mah), you'll be lucky to get a couple of dozen. Intova recommends against using alkalines except for occasional emergency use (even though they ship two alkaline batteries in the box), and I've noticed that when you put alkalines in the camera, the screen glows lightly, even with the camera off.
The second problem is the time to take a picture. If the camera isn't on when you see something you want to shoot, you can forget about it, especially if the shot requires a flash. Time to first pic without a flash is about 15-20 seconds...and charging the flash requires an additional 20 or so seconds. Even if you already have the camera on and the flash charged, getting your shot could be iffy, since it takes about 2-3 seconds to take a picture from a ready state.
The pictures themselves are generally fine. The camera has a bit of noise in low-light situations, but most digital cameras do, these days. It embeds Exif info, and you can choose image size and quality.
The video quality is sub-par at best. It is over-compressed, noisy in low light and the sound tends to drop out every few seconds. I suppose it works okay as an emergency video source, but don't expect to replace your camcorder.
Like I said, if this were just any camera sitting on the shelf at Target or Wal-Mart, I'd recommend passing it by without a second thought. However, the inclusion of the waterproof housing changes things by giving this camera a niche.
The underwater housing is a high quality acrylic case with a double O-ring design and external buttons for all the functions. It is not a glorified zip-seal baggie like many 3rd party "cases." It is rated at 180 feet. It is easy to open and close, without any significant risk of accidental opening while underwater. The only issue with the casing (and this is common to all underwater housings) is that the cold water could cause condensation and fogging inside the case.
The inclusion of the case with the camera for less than the cost of most manufacturers' cases alone makes this worth picking up *if you want or need an underwater camera*. If you don't require the case, then I strongly suggest you look elsewhere for an everyday use camera.
By P. Winters (Scotts Valley, CA)
I purchased two of these cameras, one for my 12 year old and one for my 9 year old, for our recent two week Bahama trip. The cameras were easy to use and the kids loved the video mode. They took video of all sorts of under water activities as well as video of them hand feeding the fish. The cameras performed just as well out of the housing on dry land.
I was very satified with the cameras for the price. We did take the advise of previous reviewers regarding using rechargeable batteries and purchasing 2Gb memory cards.
Looking forward to our next trip!
By Ellen
I've only had the camera for a couple of weeks and only used it in my pool hence the pics of the battery operated fish. It seems to take a good picture in and out of the water. Problem, it's so bright in the pool that I have no idea what I'm taking a picture of. You cannot see the LCD monitor in bright light. Also, I agree with an earlier posting, the quality of the pic on the monitor isn't even close to the quality of the actual picture, so don't delete any pics until you've looked at them on your computer. I've been practicing with choosing a spot above the camera and using that as my focal point. Also, when the kids were in the pool, I had trouble with the shutter delay. But I think that was more related to my being unsure if the picture I wanted was in the frame. It won't be nearly as bright in the water when snorkeling so I think everything will work out fine. I think I'm gonna enjoy the camera. The only other concern I had was finding silicon grease. I missed it on the Amazon site so I didn't order it when I ordered the camera. Finally found it at Home Depot in the plumbing department. Just order it from Amazon when you order the camera.
By Kianta W. Asplund (Valdosta Ga)
while it is nice that a water proof camera is this cheap it isnt worth it. The whole point of having a camera is to capture life's moments to reflect on at a later date. This camera takes low quality washed out photos when using flash and has an orange blury tint to it if not using a flash. Overall the quality is not that of a camera that claims to be 6.0 MP...
In the end you are better off laying out another $100 and getting a quality camera
By Michael Stephens (Lucas, Texas USA)
The camera has many features and takes pretty good pictures. A couple of issues: it eats batteries. I turned it off between pictures and it lasted for a whole 30 minute dive. Unfortunately, one time I loaned it to my son. He left it on and only got 4 pictures before it ate a set if new batteries. The other problem was that a couple of times when it ran out of battery, it left the lens deployed and the lens open. Not too big a deal but it didn't fit in my pocket and I was afraid to scratch the lens. The camera is waterproof and has a good price but has some irritating flaws.
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