Well, I sure had some adventures with my SeaLife DC500
The first one, I bought at the local dive shop for nearly $1000 (AUD). I used it a few times, then one day ( it happened to be my birthday last year:-) I went for a dive at Byron Bay, here in New South Wales, Australia. The water was a bit rough, and while climbing into the boat, the camera fell off my arm. We all looked for it for awhile, then the others had to go before the boat went out to sea by itself. My husband and I stayed back to look for it, but it didn’t want to be found by us.
So, after a month or so, I bought another brand new sealife from a store on Ebay, for about $600 (AUD). Buying one from the US was less expensive because of import taxes not having to be paid.
The camera worked really well, until one night in Las Vegas, in the middle of taking a movie of The Pirate show, it went weird. I had to take the battery out to stop it going weird. After that, there was too much light exposed in all the photos, and they looked all white. We were disappointed because we had a lot of pictures to take in Vegas.
I sent the camera back to the U.S. and got a brand new replacement. I had that for a few months, and took it up to the Sunshine Coast recently. I took some great movie of the HMAS Brisbane ( in a previous post ), and then a couple of days later, was taking some shots and the photos went all white again, just like they did in Vegas.
So, I sent the camera back again, and this time, they sent me the upgraded model. So, now I have a brand new SeaLife 600. Will write about it another day. It’s a beautiful camera!
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