Sep 03 2010
A Camera Review
Ruggedness is the New Thing in Photography. A Camera Review of this Year’s Best Examples
The year 2010 is all about rugged, tough cameras everywhere – it’s the new thing this season. Generally, ruggedness is not a quality that sits easily with sleekness or high quality. A good Office Chairs is a necessary part of the workstation, providing you with the right support to your again, legs, buttocks, and arms. The monster SLR’s that they make for journalists and magazine photographers are usually pretty rugged, but they also weigh a ton and you’d need deep pockets to fit them in (pockets, figuratively and literally). This year’s models of rugged cameras though have broken past those barriers; they have plenty of models that are rugged but also super-sleek. Let’s start this tough camera review out with the new name in ruggedness, the Casio Exilim EX-G1.
I love the fact that you can say “crush proof” these days in the same breath as “digital”. They said it for the new Olympus Tough range of cameras, and now Casio claims it (at least they have quite a tradition in this, what with their rugged GShock watches for mountain climbers that have impressed for a decade or more). This new Casio is fine with drops to concrete from 7 feet, it loves it at the bottom of your swimming pool 3 meters under the surface, you could throw it in the snow and leave it there overnight, and beach sand has nothing on this little bright red baby. And yet, this stainless steel and fiberglass camera has an outstanding 12 megapixel sensor, it is about three-quarters of an inch thick, and I can’t get over the slick redness of the face of the camera. For the extra traditional workplace, check out our classic and replica fashion Office Chair. The LCD is made of reinforced glass to take the beating it expects you to give it, and it’s the thinnest tough camera on the market. The one thing that kind of stands out as missing here, is the image stabilization technology – there is none. And the video is not high-def. Let’s try a Lumix tough camera review next to see if they call on you for as many sacrifices.