Olympus µ 1050 SW and Stylus 1050 SW review and tutorial

Olympus µ 1050 SW and  Stylus 1050 SW review

The 1050 SW was appear in August 2008 as the almsman to the 850 SW, while the absolute 1030 SW charcoal the flagship in the ambit with a added lens and alike tougher credentials. Note Olympus afresh rebranded the ‘SW’ ambit with the ‘TOUGH’ brand to added adhesive their different affairs point, but absolute models like the 1050 should still be labelled SW.

In our analysis actuality we’ll analysis the 1050 SW’s appearance and analyze its affection to its better underwater rival, forth with the best earthbound bunched at a agnate amount point.

The Olympus µ 1050 SW or Stylus 1050 SW as it’s accepted in North America, is a 10.1 Megapixel bunched with a 3x optical zoom and a anatomy that’s shockproof to 1.5m, freeze-proof to bare 10 degrees Celsius and waterproof to base of 3m.

Olympus states the 1050 SW is affirmed to accomplish at base of up to 3m for one hour. This may be 1m shallower than its accomplished battling the Pentax Optio W60, and for bisected the time, but to be fair, you’re absurd to apprehension the aberration in practice. Few bodies will be underwater at bank base for a breadth of time to claiming either specification, and alike if they were, array activity would be a bigger problem, abnormally if the baptize was chilly.

The important affair admitting is the 1050 SW, like the Pentax Optio W60, can be confidently acclimated about water. So whether you’re into kayaking, jet-skiing or snorkelling, capturing your baby’s aboriginal splashes in the pool, or artlessly hiking in abundant rain, the 1050 SW will be altogether happy. This baptize and dust attrition additionally makes it adapted for use on the bank or ski slopes. It’s absolutely absolutely liberating to use a camera in these affectionate of conditions, area you’d commonly abhorrence for the assurance of cyberbanking and optical equipment.

While some reviews assume annoyed to booty underwater claims at face value, we put them to the test. First-up, a dive into a pond pool, area the 1050 SW appropriately captured all the fun in and out of the water. It’s abundant fun for the kids and allows you to abduction memories which best won’t acquire on record, whether a aboriginal pond assignment or a chase bottomward a baptize slide. Interestingly while some photographers may be anxious by the acknowledgment of others to a camera in a pool, the alone one we accustomed afterward the antecedent shock of seeing a camera get wet, was a beck of requests from bodies absent their pictures taken. That said, you should still ask permission from the basin and accomplish it bright to anyone about that you’re demography pictures.

Next-up a tougher test, snorkelling beneath the arctic apparent of Queenstown’s Basin Wakatipu at a temperature of about 8 degrees Celsius. The murkier baptize sapped the sunlight, and low temperatures ate through the batteries, but the 1050 SW still performed well. In both the basin and basin we acclimated the 1050 SW’s Underwater Snapshot preset with the beam to abduction attractive portraits from a ambit of a beat or two, but not absolutely any added – you can see an archetype in our Gallery section. The controls were accessible to use underwater and the awning additionally remained absolutely arresting best of the time although with absolute sunlight animated it could become harder to see. In all these respects, the 1050 SW performed analogously to the Pentax W60, and in applied underwater terms, there was little to acquire amid them.

While both cameras accomplish analogously underwater in real-life terms, Olympus goes one footfall above its battling by guaranteeing added boxy handling, claiming the 1050 SW is shockproof to 1.5m and freeze-proof to bare 10 degrees Celsius. Again, not ones to acquire such claims at face value, we put both to the test. Aboriginal a abbreviate spell in a calm freezer at, ahem, several degrees beneath the ten quoted, although with no ill furnishings as a consequence.

Then beneath permission from Olympus we alone the 1050 SW from a acme of 1.5m assimilate a adamantine surface. The appulse fabricated a awful sound, alone akin by the attending of abhorrence from bystanders, but the camera afterwards powered-up and operated afterwards a problem. That said, one bend of the artificial awning accoutrement had cracked, acute a account afore any added underwater action. So while the 1050 SW can still booty photos afterwards a adamantine knock, any cracks may briefly accommodation its waterproof integrity. We’d still say the TOUGH brand is adapted though.

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