Waterproof Digital Camera Review

So you're searching for a reliable agenda camera you can yield with you on your next vacation AND use for every day living? As a affiliate of the ever-popular overworked-and-underpaid arm of society, I am actual accurate if authoritative purchases of this kind. I like to do my analysis and acquisition the best artefact to clothing my needs, for the best price, from a acclaimed seller. In this case, my choices depended mainly on quality, brand, amount range, features, and the specific appliance for the camera itself. Keep reading, and I will action you a glimpse into the controlling action of a absolute chump in the bazaar for said reliable agenda camera. But first, a little accomplishments into why there is a charge for a waterproof agenda camera in the aboriginal place!
An underwater camera allows you to abduction locations of the apple a lot of humans alone see on awning savers. The photos taken from beneath the baptize band (or AT the baptize line) accomplish for a abundant photo album, scrapbook, etc. They add bags of color, abyss (literally AND figuratively!), and atom a accomplished altered akin of homesickness in the anamnesis if abandoning the different adventures aggregate in abyssal situations. But back a lot of cameras you'd accept on vacation can't handle added than a few drops of sea spray, why should the accomplished poolside/underwater/starboard-side allocation of the cruise achieve for active alone in your mind's eye due to your absolute non-water-compliant camera's abstruse shortcomings?
If you're annihilation like me, you'd adopt to backpack as little about as accessible if traveling on a vacation, abnormally one area a lot of time will be spent by the water. Abounding humans usually lug about a agenda camera for pictures aloft the baptize and a abstracted underwater camera for capturing shots of the adorableness beneath the surface. In a lot of instances the underwater camera is beefy and awkward, and takes up lots of accidental space. Amount and superior are automatic backdrop too for these specialized cameras, and pictures taken with disposable cameras are actual poor quality. This doesn't accept to be the case!
There are several finalists in the seek for an underwater camera that doubles as an accustomed agenda camera. These cameras accomplish able-bodied underwater and are the aforementioned bunched admeasurement as your acceptable agenda camera. I am actual accurate in allotment a reliable waterproof agenda camera, and accept done the airing for you. After all, I wish to accomplish abiding the photos from MY vacation are as top in superior as my memories will be, after spending next year's vacation money on the camera itself! I concluded up purchasing what I accept to be the best camera for wet and dry use: the Olympus Stylus Tough 8000.
I was fatigued to Olympus for the reliable cast name and aggressive appraisement their cameras offered. Personally, I accept had luck with this brand, and I am added acceptable to assurance electronics that appear from added acclaimed brands, as they tend to accept bigger chump achievement ante -and bigger warranties.
There were abounding reviews accessible on the Olympus Stylus Tough 6000, which is the antecedent of the Tough 8000. All the reviews I apprehend on the Tough 6000 seemed to be abundant bigger than what I apprehend about the added all purpose, underwater agenda cameras. Why did I not go with the Stylus 6000? Well, added than the actuality that the Tough 8000 was newer, shinier and added recent, the 8000 had something to action that its ancestor didn't - DEPTH!!
While aural like an amazing camera, the Stylus 6000 is rated to a abyss of 10 feet. This is absolute for abounding boilerplate vacations involving water, like arena in the shallows at the resort pool, or puddle-jumping on an ATV tour. It's aswell abundant for kayaking, accepted swimming, bank snorkeling and demography pictures in the rain. As an ardent snorkeler & chargeless diver I bare something that could go deeper. The Olympus Stylus Tough 8000 is able of traveling down to 33 anxiety with no appropriate case or underwater housing, just the camera itself, AS IS! A lot of cameras with this adequacy are abundant beyond and bulkier, which brings me to the next chief agency for my purchase: SIZE!
Having an all in one camera was capital to my decision. I did not wish to accept to lug about two cameras, nor did I wish some behemothic barbarian of an underwater camera. After all, I'm not filming a National Geographic special; I just wish a bunched camera that takes superior photos aloft and beneath the surface. Size-and-specs-wise, Stylus 8000 ill-fitted my needs just fine. The camera itself is 2.4x3.7x.85, and weighs 6.4 ounces. Photo angel superior can be set up to 12 megapixels, which offers a lot of versatility, depending on your advised use. (Note: At 12 megapixels, you will accept the befalling to draft up that once-in-a-lifetime-I-can't-believe-we-saw-this attempt to affiche admeasurement and appearance it off withOUT any blurriness or accident in detail!)
Also, the lithium-ion rechargeable array is majorly absorbing in agreement of continued array activity and abbreviate recharge time. It was acclimated in and out of the baptize again throughout anniversary day with no low array problems. A aloft advance from archetypal AA array cameras. Also, the low array akin indicator gives you affluence of warning, so you accept a adventitious to either get to a charger or become captious with if to about-face the camera on so you don't absence out on the a lot of appropriate shots.
A final but VERY important agency I feel I should acknowledgment if talking about owning a reliable agenda camera, whether advised for use aloft or beneath the water, is affluence of use for others. Yes, this camera has a abundant timer for cocky portraits - even a self-portrait approach - and the buyer will usually be the photographer, but it's nice to accept the advantage to duke that camera over and say cheese already in awhile. With the Olympus Stylus Tough 8000, point and shoot is simple to do with little abstruse background. The awning is a nice admeasurement for previewing (2.7 inch LCD display), autofocus is effortless, and the cutting button is appropriate on the top! For added aggressive portrait-takers, the 3.6x optical zoom is simple to maneuver, and there are abounding account modes, including Portrait, Sunset, Indoor....even Panoramic. There is even a Face Detection action that will autofocus abstracts in the account - just in case Aunt Ruthy had a few too abounding if she was lining up the ancestors table attempt at Thanksgiving!
The camera is crushproof to 220 pounds, shockproof to 2 meters, freezeproof to 14 degrees Fahrenheit, and waterproof to 10 meters.
So you see, if lining up all the amenities I capital in a reliable agenda camera, the Olympus Stylus Tough 8000 Waterproof Agenda Camera blew the antagonism out of the baptize (no pun - ok, baby pun - intended).
- It ability just draft you abroad too.