[kmo]

I bought one and love it. Its the first digital camera I've had though, I'm not too sure how it compares to a similarly priced camera that doesn't go in the water.

I'm rough on gear, so the best features for me are that its drop proof and waterproof.

It certainly isn't much of a video camera though. I tried to do a slow pan around a beautiful panorama the other day and it came out shocking as the light changed. It still fun to take it underwater and shoot film of little fish when I can't go spearing.

Its great to have in the boat for fish photos. The big screen is good, in someways its better than my laptop for showing photos.

It takes pretty good lowlight photos for sunsets and that sort of stuff.

I've attached two photos taken with it.
One of a mate Brad with a nice dhu fish. The vis wasn't perfect that day so there are a few particles in view.
The other is a sunset in the Philippines.
I haven't touched either photo with photoshop, I've just compressed them using outlook express to post them.

Cheers,
Cameron