Underwater digital cameras are a special designed digital camera make for still and video photography to capture the wonderful marine life flora and fauna. The underwater world offers so many opportunities object to capture once in your lifetime photos of undersea life, vivid colors of coral reefs. This time, underwater digital cameras give you clean and crisp pictures that truly reflect the images of marine and plant life of depths underwater.
There are two basic groups or types of digital cameras: SLR which stands for “single lens reflex” and “digi-cam” which just means digital camera, and refers to the smaller point and shoot models. SLR cameras resemble their film type predecessors. They are about the same size and have similar functionality. SLR cameras have advanced features, will allow you to change lenses, and are faster than the point and shoot digital cameras. Digi-cam, while easy to use, has shortcomings when compared to an SLR underwater camera.
Olympus Underwater Digital Camera – SW Series
Olympus SW series may be the best well rounded underwater camera at the moment. This camera completed with 10 Megapixels, ISO1600, and a 3.6x optical zoom feature and you could dive with this camera as depth as 6.6 feet.
The Olympus Stylus 770 SW camera is designed to take pictures underwater and on land. Olympus says you can take the camera underwater as far down as 33 feet, but for this review I went as far down as 9 feet in a swimming pool.
The Stylus 770 SW, like most cameras in its class, does not have an optical viewfinder. Its 2.5-inch LCD is sufficiently bright to use comfortably under almost all conditions, but it was often too reflective to use effectively in direct sunlight. Although the monitor brightens under low light conditions, the monitor sometimes lagged when gaining up so it appeared to blink from dark to light and back again. The exposure was accurate as well. Late afternoon/early evening shots were a little more difficult, however.
Another feature mentioned on the front of the camera was that the camera was shockproof up to 5 feet. So, for my test I dropped it on the floor from the height of five feet – over and over and over and over and over and over again. The stainless steel and aluminum body did not dent or show any damage.
The one downside to this camera is its physical design. It is very hard to hold this camera securely underwater or out of the water without putting your thumb over the lens. I would like to see a little more room for fingers around the edge of this camera.
In my opinion, this is a decent camera with a large view screen, and at 7.1 megapixels this camera produces great images.
This point-and-shoot camera’s rugged body, which is sealed against the elements and capable of withstanding rough handling, is otherwise fairly standard for its class. But the fact that the Olympus 770 SW is water/freeze/crush/shock-proof makes it stand out from the rest. You can enjoy the truly excellent aspects of this Olympus underwater digital camera.
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