Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT1 Waterproof Compact Camera Hands-on Comments

"It's a fairly well-established rule that electronics and water Do Not Mix"...but it should be often.
Can't manufacturers make waterproof only cameras, not with underwater lens?

Interesting article. Weird use of deemed: "and deemed to invite me".

I bought this camera as a second choice to my DSLR Nikon D40 + 18-200VR lens, to have a compact camera to bring with me everywhere.
I read enthusiastic review throughout internet and I used it all the summer.
Really terrific HD videos, very good resistance for dropping from belt height, good wide-tele extension, frontal LED very useful, zoom availability during video is very interesting and battery life is very

good!
But.. LCD display scratches very easily at beach, just after my first outing and under direct sunlight it behaves as a mirror instead as a viewer.
About still pictures: colors are very poor an all the pictures are greenish, except for the sunset mode in which pictures have good saturation even if they are reddish.
I had to retouch all the pictures in Photoshop to obtain good color, contrast and white balance!
There are too many modalities which creates only confusion: the beginner will only use AUTO mode, while the pro will need much more freedom in setting all the parameters.
Zoom lever is not smooth and with sands it easily block.
Moreover, after two months, the battery compartment-door started having some leakage and now the camera in unusable.
My suggestion is to try it and its competitors, useful links are:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/IMCOMP/COMPS01.HTM
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2346778,00.asp#
My final verdict is: it is not worth the money, definitely buy another model unless you only want good HD video performances