important features in a u/w camera ?

wad are the few compact camera or semi pro camera that has the features required

Features required really depend on the type of photography that you take... Care to elaborate a bit? Do you like photographing fish? Coral? Scenics? Do you want a camera that is good both under and above water? Do you photograph in low light? Etc...

Luiz asks some great questions. Our friends at Backscatter wrote an article that compares the best features of the compact cameras for underwater. A quick read of that might help.

http://www.backscatter.com/learn/article/article.php?ID=80

Cheers,

Steve

thanks , i have seen that site i was thinking G11 or a s90. which is can give me a better shoot underwater , cos sometimes i get blueish photos from my old intova sports 8 which i just lost

Berkley White and Jim Decker have a good review in the penultimate UWP (54) http://www.uwpmag.com/54c.html

Tim

I'd say the ability to shoot in RAW, manual control over ISO, shutter speed and aperture are the most important features by far.

I'd say the ability to shoot in RAW, manual control over ISO, shutter speed and aperture are the most important features by far.

Ability to shoot in RAW is essential to me in order to adjust the white balance after the dive. Even a specific underwater white balance mode will not replace manual adjusting.

Waterproof.