Canon Sure Shot A1 Panorama Date 35mm Film Camera

Pros: Small, Compact, Easy to Use

Cons: Limited distance range under water, short focal length

Review: As a person who loves water, water sports and the beach; I needed an inexpensive but durable water resistant camera to catch those once-in-a-life time photos of my 40 pound rainbow trout (my fish tale); taking photos while inside a tube while surfing at...

Pros: ease of use, robust

Cons: still looking

Review: An underwater camera is something I had always wanted, I spend lots of time sailing and rowing and like to take pictures. Canon make good cameras and this camera seemed the best underwater choice in my price range (Nikonos one day maybe). I bought is for...

Pros: one of my best buys

Cons: it is a great camera

Review: I live in the Caribbean and I had many other cameras before and they were all ruined by constant sand getting into the edges and zoom lenses.It takes excellent picture underwater and can take a banging. I carried it on my Virgin Islands vacation and...

Pros: underwater, sporty look

Cons: costs around $130, cheap plastic, dial

Review: Like taking pictures? Like underwater, diving? Like taking pictures underwater? Then try this Canon A-1, a high-quality underwater camera with fixed shooting range, excellent auto-focus, easy-to use and understand features, automatic functions.
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Pros: Small, light, durable, inexpensive

Cons: Underwater image quality is barely adequate

The Bottom Line: Until a dedicated underwater digital camera arrives, this is a somewhat workable stop-gap for divers.

Review: I bought this camera as an alternative (antidote) to hauling around Nikonos or underwater-housed digital camera big-rigs. Therefore, this review covers the use of this camera only as used for SCUBA, i.e. underwater, not on land.

As anyone who...

Pros: Nice effort

Cons: Poor design and service support

Review: Hello,

Please don't buy the Canon Sure Shot A-1 Panorama Date underwater camera. Allow me to explain.

I bought a Sure Shot Panorama Date underwater camera as a birthday gift for my 14 year old daughter. I loaded it with film and off...

Pros: Reasonably priced and easy to use.

Cons: Unreliable when used underwater

The Bottom Line: Not recommended because the key feature of this camera i.e. being waterproof is not 100% reliable. There are better performing and better looking cameras for this price.

Review: I bought this camera back in Dec 1999. I had fun with it in mixed conditions (i.e on dry land as well as underwater in a swimming pool).

As the other cameras owned by me are the Nikon FM2 (fully manual), Nikon FE2 (aperture priority), Olympus...