There are roughedised point and shoot cameras, Pentax makes some and I think
Canon just announced one. They are generally good to go underwater a short
distance and take drops and such better than normal cameras. I was going to
get our son one but he demanded an XBox for Christmas.
Yeah it's the Canon d10
<
http://www.usa.canon.com/cusa/consumer/products/cameras/digital_cameras/powershot_d10#Features
>
$249 at B&H
<http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/605229-REG/Canon_3508B001.html>
Looks like a good choice for a kid,
BK
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On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 13:29, Victoria L. Herring
<victoria@journeyzing.com>wrote:
> I don't think she needs expandability and while I really love Canon
> myself [and have the S90] this sounds perfect since she tends [still]
> not to be overly sensitive to her cameras [she dropped one in the
> desert in Chile and of course it doesn't work now...
>
> At 8:21 AM -0800 12/9/10, Michael Pearlman wrote:
> >I have owned an Olympus 1030 for a few years and the thing has been bullet
> >proof. So much so that I had a hard time reading the model number.
> >Mine uses an Olympus chip that is pricey but I understand the newer models
> >use regular SD cards. I taken mine hiking and dropped it, used it
> >underwater and at times it's even been covered with mud. It's been
> biking,
> >river running with me and the camera out of the raft a good part of the
> >time.
> >It's been with me Camel jockeying in the Middle East and up the Andes in
> >Peru. The pictures are good if not great but certainly very usable. No
> >RAW function but
> >I can easily get 11x14's.
>
> --
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> Award of Excellence, 2010 [http://www.chicagophotoforum.org];
>
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