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Redang Island – Feed The Fish

azwan — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:35:52 +0000

This is how it looks like underwater As promised, I have uploaded my Redang Island snorkeling trip to Youtube. I have edited the video prior to upload. Although this one is only 36 seconds, but it took nearly 30 minutes to upload. It’s about 60MB in size and in HD.

This video was taken at the Pulau Pinang Marine Park, Redang, using the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT1. You don’t need additional casing to use it underwater.

Make sure you watch in HD.

Just Got Back From Redang

azwan — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:30:31 +0000

I also took I week off. Took the family for a trip to Kuala Trengganu, Redang and Cherating. Will blog more about it soon, with more pictures, and videos if I manage to upload it to Youtube.

This is me and my wife at the Redang Marine Park, underwater

Remember about the two cameras, Olympus and Panasonic, which are waterproof and shockproof. I bought the Lumix DMC-FT1. Here’s more pictures taken underwater. The deepest I went in with this camera is 1.5m deep.

Cantik kan?

Panasonic DMC-FT1 Waterproof, Shockproof, Dustproof

azwan — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:08:54 +0000

Most importantly, kidsproof. I am currently using Sony Cyber-Shot. the lens protector could not be closed when the camera is switched off. There’s a slight crack near the battery compartment and all these were due to my kids

At first there’s only Olympus that features the rugged type of cameras, now looks like Canon and Panasonic have started to do the same.

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT1 comes with 12.1 Megapixels resolution, 4.6x optical zoom. It’s 3.0m waterproof and 1.5m shockproof. One thing I like about this camera are the Intelligetn Auto and AVCHD Lite features. According to Panasonic :

FT1 make it even easier to take HD (High-Definition) motion images by adding a movie button and AVCHD Lite, which lets you take beautiful, long-time HD movies. You can also use the iA mode to shoot motion images, and let the camera do all the work for you. This user-friendly mode automatically selects the most suitable Scene mode and helps correct blurring, focus and brightness problems. All you do is aim and shoot. iA is the easy way to capture beautiful HD movies.

DMC-FT1 will really compliment my Plasma TV, I can just shoot, slot the SD card and watch the photos. No more cables. It also has a HDMI output, not sure what is it for, maybe the video taken could be watched directly? Have to take some time to find out more about this. Matta fair in two weeks time, usually there’s a Fotokem promotion as well.

[Update: 9 Nov 2009] I have bought this camera for RM1499 with 2 4GB memory card. If you want to see the quality of some of the videos I took underwater. Please refer to these posts – Feed The Fish and Snorkeling Trip. For still pictures, refer to this post. For the videos, please view in HD for better picture quality.