The Canon PowerShot D10: A Great Outdoor Companion
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The Canon PowerShot D10 has truly offered me the chance to share my outdoor way of life with my friends and family. Living on a exotic island I have numerous options for savoring the outdoors and I make best use of this. I’ve been snorkeling, wind-surfing, trekking and mountain biking for many years but I have never recorded my adventures to show my family as I never possessed a suitable camera for the outdoors lifestyle.
However that has all altered now as I bought a Canon PowerShot D10 not too long ago. This camera is very rugged and more importantly is shock proof and water proof. This has offered me so many more choices for taking great pics, specifically for the very first time, underwater pics.
The PowerShot D10 is waterproof right down to thirty three feet or ten metres and as an active snorkeler this really is ideal for me. I know that I never dive deeper than four metres so this waterproof camera won’t ever be tested to its limits unless of course I dropped it which is unlikely because of the add-ons that I bought with the camera.
As new the camera comes with a durable adjustable wrist strap. I purchased the Canon accessory package which includes two braided cable shoulder or neck straps, a carabiner strap, three various colored front covers and a soft camera case. So when I am in the water I have the camera clipped to my belt or dangling round my neck or chest. This also frees up my hands but with the assurance that I will not lose the camera.
There are four fixture points for the straps, one in every corner, making this ideal for left handed user as well. The wrist strap or the carabiner fixes to only one corner but the other straps fix to two corners enabling you to loop it over your neck or round your upper body, making it hands free.
Since I bought the camera it has had hours in the ocean, diving down to four metres, a lot of drops in the sand, numerous button mashes from my wet and sandy fingertips and rough cycle rides in the rain. The result, a digital camera still just like the day I purchased it.
The PowerShot D10 incorporates a bulky design when compared with most point and shoot cameras and a noticeably protruding lens making it somewhat podgy and a little awkward to carry around. It is not the camera I would pop into my top pocket for taking to the coffee shop but once I get out my back pack and snorkeling gear the camera really comes into its own. Weight wise the camera is okay and the outstanding decision by Canon to incorporate four accessory posts at the corners was a master stroke.
Now don’t expect underwater video and photos that specialist cameras take, the camera can’t do that, however for its price it gives good results. Out of the water the quality are excellent, a lot better than my PowerShot 780IS which doesn’t have any of the three main features of the D10. Overall I am happy with my “outdoor companion’ and it is always the first thing into my back pack ready for the up coming adventure.
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