What to buy together with your new camera? I wrote some tips and
comments from a paddler perspective:

http://users.frii.com/uliasz/weblog/...219/index.html

Would you add anything?

how about a small, easily detached float? I keep my optio in a little
mash zippered pocket on my PFD. The pocket is too small for any kind of
float, but I get nervous about getting hit by a wave and dropping the
camera when I have it out (especially in following seas). What would be
ideal, but I have not found it, would be a float (not styrofoam, which
comes apart) that you could keep clipped to a line on the deck and then
clip it to the camera strap when you need it. Anyone know of anything?

Marek "Wayfarer" wrote the following on 5/17/2006 1:39 PM:
What to buy together with your new camera? I wrote some tips and
comments from a paddler perspective:

http://users.frii.com/uliasz/weblog/...219/index.html

Would you add anything?

In article ,
Dan Koretz wrote:

how about a small, easily detached float? I keep my optio in a little
mash zippered pocket on my PFD. The pocket is too small for any kind of
float, but I get nervous about getting hit by a wave and dropping the
camera when I have it out (especially in following seas). What would be
ideal, but I have not found it, would be a float (not styrofoam, which
comes apart) that you could keep clipped to a line on the deck and then
clip it to the camera strap when you need it. Anyone know of anything?

I dug out a visitor badge neck strap from work, and thread the Optio
WP's wrist strap through the steel loop at the end of the neck strap.

Hang it around my neck, with the camera tucked into a PDF mesh pocket
when not using it, and it works fine.

Doesn't go anywhere when you fall out of the boat at the dock, either.

:}

Interesting fix. Nothing extra to fuss with. As someone who started
out with whitewater, I never put anything around my neck, but it would
be easy to put the strap around a shoulder strap of your pfd, which is
where a lot of whitewater paddlers (including me) hang emergency
whistles and noseplugs. I think that's what I will do. Thanks for the idea.

Steve Hix wrote the following on 5/17/2006 5:00 PM:
In article ,
Dan Koretz wrote:

how about a small, easily detached float? I keep my optio in a little
mash zippered pocket on my PFD. The pocket is too small for any kind of
float, but I get nervous about getting hit by a wave and dropping the
camera when I have it out (especially in following seas). What would be
ideal, but I have not found it, would be a float (not styrofoam, which
comes apart) that you could keep clipped to a line on the deck and then
clip it to the camera strap when you need it. Anyone know of anything?

I dug out a visitor badge neck strap from work, and thread the Optio
WP's wrist strap through the steel loop at the end of the neck strap.

Hang it around my neck, with the camera tucked into a PDF mesh pocket
when not using it, and it works fine.

Doesn't go anywhere when you fall out of the boat at the dock, either.

:}

In article ,
Dan Koretz wrote:
Steve Hix wrote the following on 5/17/2006 5:00 PM:
In article ,
Dan Koretz wrote:

how about a small, easily detached float? I keep my optio in a little
mash zippered pocket on my PFD. The pocket is too small for any kind of
float, but I get nervous about getting hit by a wave and dropping the
camera when I have it out (especially in following seas). What would be
ideal, but I have not found it, would be a float (not styrofoam, which
comes apart) that you could keep clipped to a line on the deck and then
clip it to the camera strap when you need it. Anyone know of anything?

I dug out a visitor badge neck strap from work, and thread the Optio
WP's wrist strap through the steel loop at the end of the neck strap.

Hang it around my neck, with the camera tucked into a PDF mesh pocket
when not using it, and it works fine.

Doesn't go anywhere when you fall out of the boat at the dock, either.

Interesting fix. Nothing extra to fuss with. As someone who started
out with whitewater, I never put anything around my neck, but it would
be easy to put the strap around a shoulder strap of your pfd, which is
where a lot of whitewater paddlers (including me) hang emergency
whistles and noseplugs. I think that's what I will do. Thanks for the idea.

Ah...so *that's* what that D-ring on the PFD is for. Now I don't have to
leave the camera at home if I go out where there's surf or bumpy water.

Thanks.