I have the Sealife 1200 which is pretty much the same camera just not in HD. Not sure how big of difference that makes in the camera. However I am currently looking for a strobe just for the fact without the strobe there is a huge amount of backscatter in my pictures. There is so much in fact sometimes its hard to tell what I’m taking pictures of. I dive in dark waters in the NE. From what I have seen the strobe as most said will bring out the colors a lot better than just the setups loaded into the camera.