Underwater Video Camera?

Can anyone recommend an underwater video camera or where to look to purchase one? Is digital available? Team wants to start taping swimmers but we don't know where to look to buy camera or best one, etc Any tips, ideas, recommendations would be helpful. Thanks
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    wow! this camera sounds pretty amazing! here is the mfg. web www.olympusamerica.com/.../product.asp under the spec's tab i found this: Sequential Shooting High speed: 3.5 frames per second up to 12 frames (3MP) Normal speed: 1.1 frames per second to the card capacity Movie Mode AVI Movie with Sound: 640x480/15fps, SHQ; 320x240/15fps, HQ; 160x120/15fps, SQ 640x480/15fps sounds like it would work exceptionally well for stroke analysis. no more of those postage stamp size images to squint at. the Sequential Shooting (burst mode) options sound really good to. the size is pretty amazing too: Size 3.6” W x 2.3” H x 0.8” D (91.8mm x 59.2mm x 20.6mm) Weight 5.5oz. (155g) without battery and media card i've found that Quick Time is the best motion pic viewer as it allows you to step through one frame at a time (forwards & backwards) using the arrow keys after you hit pause. i got a Fuji digital camera about 5yrs ago mainly because it uses the XD pic card, which (at the time anyway) was the most efficient for battery life (i believe it is still true). as i recall the XD was a joint venture between Fuji & Olympus, so they are the only ones that use them. My Fuji point & shoot has been great, and still takes great digital images. i once owned an Olympus 35mm point & shoot that lasted quite a long time and also took great pics. tip: i no longer plug my camera into a pc to get images off of it. for about $10 you can get a thumb drive like device that you can plug your mem. card into, so you simply plug it into a USB port as you would any flash drive. this allows the camera to be more available for taking pics (one person shooting, one person reviewing on a pc). on newer os's (like xp) is is just plug and go (no software to install), so it makes it exceptionally easy to share images on whatever pc you are standing in front of at the time. i find that these card readers are way more compact and versatile than carrying around a cable. I've seen these at places like Office Depot. the best ones I've see were at Fry's here is one example: shop2.outpost.com/.../4985241
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  • Former Member
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    wow! this camera sounds pretty amazing! here is the mfg. web www.olympusamerica.com/.../product.asp under the spec's tab i found this: Sequential Shooting High speed: 3.5 frames per second up to 12 frames (3MP) Normal speed: 1.1 frames per second to the card capacity Movie Mode AVI Movie with Sound: 640x480/15fps, SHQ; 320x240/15fps, HQ; 160x120/15fps, SQ 640x480/15fps sounds like it would work exceptionally well for stroke analysis. no more of those postage stamp size images to squint at. the Sequential Shooting (burst mode) options sound really good to. the size is pretty amazing too: Size 3.6” W x 2.3” H x 0.8” D (91.8mm x 59.2mm x 20.6mm) Weight 5.5oz. (155g) without battery and media card i've found that Quick Time is the best motion pic viewer as it allows you to step through one frame at a time (forwards & backwards) using the arrow keys after you hit pause. i got a Fuji digital camera about 5yrs ago mainly because it uses the XD pic card, which (at the time anyway) was the most efficient for battery life (i believe it is still true). as i recall the XD was a joint venture between Fuji & Olympus, so they are the only ones that use them. My Fuji point & shoot has been great, and still takes great digital images. i once owned an Olympus 35mm point & shoot that lasted quite a long time and also took great pics. tip: i no longer plug my camera into a pc to get images off of it. for about $10 you can get a thumb drive like device that you can plug your mem. card into, so you simply plug it into a USB port as you would any flash drive. this allows the camera to be more available for taking pics (one person shooting, one person reviewing on a pc). on newer os's (like xp) is is just plug and go (no software to install), so it makes it exceptionally easy to share images on whatever pc you are standing in front of at the time. i find that these card readers are way more compact and versatile than carrying around a cable. I've seen these at places like Office Depot. the best ones I've see were at Fry's here is one example: shop2.outpost.com/.../4985241
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