So far I have written a few articles about what waterproof digital camera housing options you have. Let’s consider an attractive alternative: buying the cheapest digital camera you can buy that is waterproof. After all, if you are taking it down to the beach or in the boat and throwing it around a bit, it might make more sense to purchase a camera that you can afford to lose or damage.

Amazon, along with many other online retailers, has a number of options on offer. Here is an offer that Amazon are selling for under $60: the Vivitar ViviCam 5188 5 Megapixel camera with a waterproof digital camera housing. The camera comes with a 16MB SD RAM Flash memory card – which is so typical of digital camera manufacturers. You could fill that up in less than a minute! Hopefully you already have a digital camera and a couple of larger memory cards hanging around that you can recycle in to this camera. The Vivitar ViviCam takes AAA batteries which is handy: you should be able to pick them up in any hotel gift shop or drug store should you ever run out while on vacation. The camera and housing together weigh less than 9oz (140g) which is quite light.

Vivitar ViviCam 5188 Digital Camera

At the time of writing 7 customer have reviewed the product with an average of 3.5 star rating. The consensus is that it is a pretty good camera for the beach, and a pretty good camera for the kids, but it probably isn’t your first choice for the day-to-day family camera. At under $60 it is cheaper than some underwater digital camera housing units, plus you get a camera with a few megapixels, so maybe it’s a good choice if you are looking for a backup camera that the kids could use.

Click here if you want to go and check out the Amazon page describing the full specifications of the camera.

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