Samsung phones may be IPX rated, but if you read the warranty carefully, water damage is considered abuse and not covered. There are a number of angry posts about this online.
Most people never have a problem, but you never know.
We want this for the canoe
(Drone, cameras etc)
Expensive but the dry bags are too hard to open and close
I think that’s the idea. I don’t even open mine in the water. We have decent cameras too, but I’d be way too nervous to bring them out because I am pretty clumsy and I’d drop it in the water.
Good video. He spends a lot of time talking about how to protect an expensive camera, only to admit later that he usually uses his small point-and-shoot anyway - good to hear. Couple of things I definitely agree with:
Use the burst mode - I have come back from whitewater trips with 2,000 pictures and ended up sharing 20 of them. I’m pretty good about taking a single shot at the right time, but with burst mode I get interesting pictures that I wouldn’t have even thought of.
Edit them after - you are limited with what you can do with a waterproof point-and-shoot camera, but the editing you can do after is almost unlimited. I’m no expert, so cropping and correcting exposure are the two most common fixes for me. I use Photoshop Elements, but there are lots of image editing softwares.
Set it in advance and leave it - I use the presets on the camera. Depending on the trip it is either landscape for flatwater trips or action for whitewater trips. Every once in a while the setting will get inadvertently changed, and the pictures don’t come out - that is a bummer.
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I use FastStone image viewer (free, highly recommend) to edit photos, mostly using these menus:
- Straighten / Rotate by any degree (to get the horizon level)
- Adjust lighting (my point and shoot tends to overexpose)
- Crop
Any hints on how to get rid of water droplets on the lens when everything on you is wet?
One of the things I like about having a small hatch in front of the cockpit is that I can keep a microfibre cloth inside, and it stays relatively dry for wiping the lens. Or keep one in a PFD pocket.
The only other thing I have found that helps is blowing the water off by mouth. That can be surprisingly effective.
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It’s not my idea because I want to take pictures 
Some diver accidentally kicked my housing on a deco stop once and I had to watch my housing fill slowly with water, flooding a three thousand dollar Nikon.
Luckily insurance is very cheap if you have cameras in or near the water enough.
My husband just bought me an inexpensive waterproof case to try. I don’t worry about dropping the IPhone because I always have it tethered.
I’ll use this case only when on the water and then put the phone back in the normal case.
I liked his overarching point about compromise.
I think after a while you can get accustomed to losing camera gear if you have underwater cameras and especially drones. My husband lost an expensive drone ice climbing when it lost connectivity and flew into a mountain. Since it was insured (not that much) the company replaced it (even with an upgrade)
Loss is baked into our cake, like risk.
People paddle for different reasons: speed, solitude, social, fitness, and photography.
We paddle mainly to get to views we wouldn’t see otherwise.
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I find photography is like a forced medication to “stop, breathe, see, reflect.”
On my morning runs I always take one picture of something beautiful that I see: an insect, the light etc
Nice job! I prefer the Canon Power Shot series. They do a good job and don’t do much adjusting while paddling and photographing. Thanks.