What do you use to take fish pictures?

I shoot a pretty cheap Canon Digital Rebel XTi, with the kit lens. I also carry an Olympus Tough point-and-click for the days that I want to travel light. What do you folks use?

Submitted by brennan.sangTue, 2011-09-27 12:32

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fish4budz 13 years 2 months ago

i use a nikon d5000 with a tokina 80-200 macro for anywhere im not at too high or risk of dunking otherwise i use a Gopro HD for filming and underwater shots. i wish i had a really high mega pixle waterproof camera. might have to search one out

jschoen 13 years 1 month ago

 

Pentax Optio point and shoot.  I have 2. Optio W-10 (several years old) and an Optio WG-1 GPS.  Great little cameras. Rugged, waterproof (to 33 feet?)  The Optio can take underwater pix and videos. My new WG-1 GPS function geotags  photos - when the GPS function is turned on (careful, this function drains the battery, even when camera is off) and when GPS reception is working.  Reception somewhat spotty.  The Optio is small enough that I pretty much have it with me wherever I go.  The older model has a dictation function, which is great for recording memos on field observations, hatch or stream temperature info, etc.  Unfortunately, the newer version doesn't have this any more.  There is a workaround (voice annotate a picture already taken), but it's a bit kloodgy. 

Forgot to mention: one of the nicer features of the Pentax Optios is their macro settings. Sometimes hard to get it to focus on the object of interest, but they can be quite good at taking closeups of bugs, etc.