Tahitian Princess Trip Report and Photos / tahiti_049a June 26, 2004 sailing www.koskiphotography.com/tripreports.html

These two cameras took most of the 2000 photos we made in Tahiti. I edited those down to 850 on the laptop computer we brought with us. You're seeing 150 of our favorites. The camera on the left is a Sony DSC-P32 in a $50 underwater housing from camerashield.com. The P32 (now discontinued, replaced by the P41) is an excellent camera for this purpose because the lens doesn't extend when the camera is turned on. I turn off the LCD display to conserve battery life and set the camera to stay on for the maximum time (3 minutes) before automatically turning off. This is important because when the camera is in the plastic underwater housing you can't turn it back on. You must take at least one picture every 3 minutes!!

The camera on the right is my favorite, the Sony DSC-V1. Even though it will take 5 megapixel images, I almost always have it set on 3 megapixels. That's an 800 KB image... large enough for smaller prints, great looking on the computer and lets me take about 150 photos before changing the 128 mb MemoryStick.

John took some of these photos with his Sony DSC-S75 digital camera and a few are from the CDs produced onboard ship when his disposable underwater camera film was processed.

We also took about an hour of video, trying to follow the “7 second rule” . No one shot should be more than 7 seconds long. Video can get boring when shots linger on too long.