Writing here every week can get hard sometime, apart from having nothing of note to write about getting the pictures to fill in the blanks can be even harder. Not wanting to drown my cameras can make some of our sailing spots a little hard to capture, thankfully some clever brainiacs have not only made our pocket cameras worth using and also added a bit of water resistance to boot.
But for some reason you can’t get the best of both. I tried loads of small cameras, most pocket ones give great results but mention water resistance and the quality starts to get a bit retro. For best results I’ve used my canon G9 in a water housing, but that adds a little too much bulk for tucking into the front of my wetsuit.
The two waterproof cameras I’ve used are the much-advertised Olympus and the Pentax Optio. I’m guessing the cost of waterproofing has taken precedence over features as both suffer from slow focus and shutter speeds to capture the action. I for one would rather pay a few quid extra to combine the quality of the G9 with wet weather functions of the Pentax.
Right now I just pop the Pentax inside my wetsuit for windsurfing, but am working on a way to put it on the mast as the ability to keep shooting every ten seconds makes it easy to get a half decent picture and is why I use it in the kite.
If they aren’t right yet, my G9 helped me score a few points over Easter, scrap that, windfinder.com set me up for the biggest point run in awhile. While all the TV forecasts predicted the typical rainy bank holiday weekend windfinder was spot on. It couldn’t do anything about the occasional grey skyes, but the lack of rain was a welcome change.
If you can call an eleven mile hike a family walk, then that would have been our Sunday, though the way my mum strikes out, it isn’t that far off a run. Ruffles must have thought he’d gone to dog heaven as with two long runs out in a row as Monday was spent with friends riding round Alton Water.
I’m hoping windfinder’s got it wrong this week as it’s prediction will leave all wind junkies struggling to find there fix.
