Canon Sure Shot A1 Panorama Date 35mm Film Camera

Pros: Small, Compact, Easy to Use
Cons: Limited distance range under water, short focal length

As a person who loves water, water sports and the beach; I needed an inexpensive but durable water resistant camera to catch those once-in-a-life time photos of my 40 pound rainbow trout (my fish tale); taking photos while inside a tube while surfing at...

Pros: Small, light, durable, inexpensive
Cons: Underwater image quality is barely adequate

I bought this camera as an alternative (antidote) to hauling around Nikonos or underwater-housed digital camera big-rigs. Therefore, this review covers the use of this camera only as used for SCUBA, i.e. underwater, not on land.

As anyone who...

Pros: Nice effort
Cons: Poor design and service support

Hello,

Please don't buy the Canon Sure Shot A-1 Panorama Date underwater camera. Allow me to explain.

I bought a Sure Shot Panorama Date underwater camera as a birthday gift for my 14 year old daughter. I loaded it with film and off...

Pros: underwater, sporty look
Cons: costs around $130, cheap plastic, dial

Like taking pictures? Like underwater, diving? Like taking pictures underwater? Then try this Canon A-1, a high-quality underwater camera with fixed shooting range, excellent auto-focus, easy-to use and understand features, automatic functions.
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Pros: ease of use, robust
Cons: still looking

An underwater camera is something I had always wanted, I spend lots of time sailing and rowing and like to take pictures. Canon make good cameras and this camera seemed the best underwater choice in my price range (Nikonos one day maybe). I bought is for...

Pros: one of my best buys
Cons: it is a great camera

I live in the Caribbean and I had many other cameras before and they were all ruined by constant sand getting into the edges and zoom lenses.It takes excellent picture underwater and can take a banging. I carried it on my Virgin Islands vacation and...

Pros: Reasonably priced and easy to use.
Cons: Unreliable when used underwater

I bought this camera back in Dec 1999. I had fun with it in mixed conditions (i.e on dry land as well as underwater in a swimming pool).

As the other cameras owned by me are the Nikon FM2 (fully manual), Nikon FE2 (aperture priority), Olympus...

Used many years in salt water. Greatest aggrivation is the switch. Works fine in use, but too easy to accidently turn on when stowing camera in a bag or case. Rugged and gives good pictures. Eventually the auto rewind quit.

I love this camera so much I've bought two now. Both times they've leaked in 6-8 feet of water and specs say the camera is good to around 15 feet. I'm very disappointed and Canon won't stand behind it now that it's out of warranty. Great splashproof camera, lousy snorkeling camera!