Underwater Camera

So my friend just went scuba diving in the ocean for the first time and of course had to by a nifty digital underwater camera to take with her. She returned with some really amazing photos so I thought I would let you know what she thought of the camera. She purchased the INTOVA IC 600, http://www.intova.net/ , which is a 6 megapixel digital camera with a plastic waterproof enclosure that is good to 180’. The pictures she took came out awesome but there were just a couple sticky points to it. The 2 AA batteries required to run it were burned through extremely quickly, she had to change out the batteries every dive, so after about an hour of use they were done for. And the display is not great, it is hard to see and the quality is very poor, once you load the pictures to your computer you can really see how much they are, and finally the amount of time to take the picture once the button has been pressed is too long – on the other hand it did take the picture quick as in a short exposure time which was good for action shots. All in all for what the options are for camera that can go that deep this one is a winner.