Olympus waterproof digital camera
Finally, there’s an affordable digital camera that is waterproof and shock proof. For most avid riders interested in shooting water sports buying a waterhousing for your camera to shoot your friends wakeboarding or wakeskating while sitting on a tube can be pretty expensive, not to mention risky for your non-waterproof camera. The Olympus Stylus 770 eliminates the need to spend extra money on a waterproof bag or plastic water housing which could leak. You can submerge this 7.1 megapixel point and shoot camera up to 33ft (10m) and drop it from about 5ft (1.5m). Entry level wakeboard and wakeskate photography made easy and affordable.
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via Digital Photography Review]
August 4th, 2007
9:03 pm
This camera has several cool little features too. It lets you know how deep you are in the water, and it actually embeds that info into the image file. One thing that kinda sucks is it only shoots 1.1 frames per second. So this camera won’t be very good at doing action-sequence shots. The camera DOES however have a video mode, so you can shoot 640×480 sized AVI video at 30 fps. Here is another good review of the camera from CNET.