Rugged Compact Camera 2015

The number of waterproof rugged cameras has exploded over the past few years.

Rugged compact camera 2015. A digital camera or digicam is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory most cameras produced today are digital and while there are still dedicated digital cameras many more cameras are now incorporated into mobile devices like smartphones which can among many other purposes use their cameras to initiate live video telephony and directly edit and upload imagery to others. Rather than 3 or 4x optical zoom this camera has a lens that can go up to 10x. With five underwater shooting modes there s no doubt about it. Olympus along with pentax is one of the pioneers of the underwater rugged camera.

Nothing spoils a vacation like spilling a mai tai on your fancy new camera. The xi series is a fusion of a rugged compact pyrometer and a modern ir camera. Furthermore some of the rugged cameras come with multiple years of warranties just in case if the camcorder were to break. Its first camera the stylus 720 sw was introduced back in 2006 and the rest is history.

The camera goes on sale in march 2015 for 380. If you want to get up close and personal panasonic s compact lumix zs100 gives you way more zoom than the competition. Many many generations of rugged cameras later the tough tg 1 ihs arrived and it brought something new to the genre. The camera survived 5 days of snorkeling lagoon swimming and big wave ocean motorboat rides that destroyed cell phones and other non waterproof electronics.

The olympus tg 4 isn t just sealed against spills its fully waterproof to 15m 50ft as well as shockproof from 2 1m 7ft crushproof to 100kg 220lbf and freezeproof to 10c 14f. Thanks to analog and digital outputs as well as the option to process up to nine freely definable measuring areas using an external process interface the xi camera is perfectly suited for oem applications. The segment was basically owned by pentax and olympus but now all of the major compact camera manufacturers have a. A fast f2 0 4 9 25 100mm equivalent zoom lens.

The lens focuses quickly even underwater which is vital for snagging snaps. Apr 7 2015 if you have a few aquatic adventures on the horizon this summer it s. Put simply it operates more like a high end compact than a traditional rugged camera which is to say that it doesn t include many of the compromises that its contemporaries do. At the recent cp camera show in japan ricoh announced the new pentax k s2 dslr and w g5 rugged compact as well as an entry level pentax flash.

The waterproof cameras can go up to depths of 10 feet for more than 30 minutes.