Quote Originally Posted by NoNo View Post
I'm honestly leaning towards the D10 despite it's ugliness. The Olympus 8010 is getting horrible reviews for speed and quality. The Panasonic had a lot of complaints on Amazon about leaking. The Sony didn't have enough user reviews for me to feel comfortable, so I think that leaves the Canon. "My name is Annette, and my camera has a bubble butt."
Yeah, I would avoid the olympus - my first digital camera was an olympus and for a 1 megapixel digital , it took gorgeous pics - the optics were just incredible and I've managed to blow up those 1 megapixel pics to 16x20... However, I've hated every olympus that I've tried since then for photo quality. The waterproof cameras in general tend to get a lot of terrible reviews about leaking - the kodak playsport that i have has a ton of reviews saying that theirs leak. I put vacuum grease around the gaskets and that seems to work for me.

The thing about the canon is the shape for holding it in your hands - and that I shove my camera into the top of my pfd. If it's a small flat camera, I barely feel that and it doesn't interfere with my paddling. I don't think I could say the same about the canon with that shape.