INTOVA INWD-IC600 6.0 MP Digital Camera with Waterproof Housing -180FT
 |   Publisher : Intova Company : INTOVA |
Features
- 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.
Product Description
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.Customer reviews
Good basic underwater camera 
The Intova IC600 is a good basic underwater camera for the price. The waterproof housing worked great on two scuba dives down to 60 feet. The camera has several nice features including a flash that works in auto, flash off, flash on, and red eye modes. The flash is weak, and it has to be used close to your subject in clear water. The photos are of nice quality. You can experiment with white balance settings to give different color qualities underwater. The housing allows for 46mm filters to be attached, although the 85B filter I used tended to give photos a green hue. Intova offers an underwater filter that may or may not help. Definitely use rechargeable Ni-Cad batteries with the camera as they last longer than regular batteries, which get eaten up fast. The rear screen is hard to see through the housing in sunlight, but is slighty easier to read underwater. This is the perfect underwater camera for the occasional scuba diver or snorkler who wants to see immediate results and preserve underwater sights with good quality photos. The camera takes standard SD cards up to a couple gigabytes, and by taking numerous photos, you're bound to get a few keepers.
poor 
This seems like a good deal: durable waterproof housing, 6mp, optical zoom. However, there are 2 major problems with this item. The flash is useless when in the housing. I wrote to the company and was told that they don't recommend using the internal flash and I should get an external flash. The second problem is that the screen is almost impossible to see when outside. It is like trying to look through a mirror. Most of the time, when taking pictures, I had to just guess. I can take better pictures with a disposable camera. For these reasons, I returned this item.
good bargain
This Camera has alot of memory capability which is a plus.Have taken less than 100 pix so far but am happy with this camera for what I paid for it.
Not too shabby
Great camera for the money. I did have one dive where the camera froze up at the beginning of the dive and I could not get it to reset until we came topside and I was able to remove the batteries. I went again after that and had no issues. Hopefully it was an isolated incident.
Much more than I hoped...
In this modern day & age, we are sometimes sufficiently graced to "get what we pay for". I am happy to convey this boffo little dynamo gives your steady hand way more bang than expected. As an avid diver & photographer I did a lot of research, wedged between some mecha-$1000s set up with strobes out to the sides like insect eyes - and the stoopid $20 disposable film jobbies I'd hobbled by with for years.
Lucky to have found this camera; their (Intova) newer, more mega-pixeled versions could be better - I would not be surprised, given the overall workmanship, quality of build & performance I got. Caveat: 90% of my opinion is based on scuba pix in warm & clear tropical environments; however, the responsive convenience of the digital itself - sans housing - should not be overlooked. For a suave dinky 6MP point & shoot, the built-in flash functioned admirably, if sometimes pawn to close range (~<5 ft, better 3 ft & in) & victim of lens housing shadow casts. Used skillfully in conjunction with your natural light source, you can capture very decent color renditions below 40 ft. ("photoshop" up your reds). While Intova's labeled claim of 180 ft. wasn't challenged by me, I spent plenty of time >100 ft, & my IC600 negotiated >30 dives without so much as a hiccup. I did also attentively maintain my housing, well rinsed & clean, with good quality fresh silicone grease on my o-rings when I changed the batteries. By the way, the red filter accessory is too much (overtones) & not worth it.
Two other tips - some may ponder ordinary "alkaline" vs rechargable batteries here; follow me & many other reviewers & use rechargeables ONLY. I got a sony 4-pk w/ wall charger & easily kept them going in&out by 2's ~every other day with zero performance lapse (eg, 50-75 HQ photos per day +some videos, over 600 files in total; didn't barely fill half my card). To that end, I also added a better-quality "fast" 2GB SD card. Very curious if the processor reads an SDHC (since the specs don't say), but haven't tried.
For what this camera costs versus what it delivers, it's 5-star, frankly. It is though an "entry level" option, and not meant to compete with those huge multi-eyed 12MP rigs fellows tote around. As at the start, sometimes we're lucky to get what we pay for, and MY IC600 to me is "worth" way more than I paid here on Amazon, that's for sure.