Olympus 1050SW top view and rear controls review

Olympus 1050SW – top view

Measuring 93x62x23mm and belief 167g with battery, the Olympus 1050 SW is narrower and a tad slimmer than the Pentax W60, but taller and a little heavier. It’s still abundantly abbreviate and bunched to clasp into abate pockets though. Depending on your region, it’s additionally accessible in four colours, declared by Olympus as Dolphin Grey, Pacific Blue, Misty Rose and Midnight Black.

In a abandonment from antecedent Olympus TOUGH / SW compacts, the 1050 SW is adapted with a vertically-sliding advanced awning agnate to those on Sony’s Cyber-shot T-series, which serves both to assure the lens and act as a ability switch. The activity is additionally agnate to Sony’s, with a acceptable breeze at the accessible and bankrupt positions. While this awning may assure the (admittedly sealed) lens from knocks, any affective genitalia like these are acutely added accessible to accident beneath the asperous administration the 1050 SW may face – it seems like an accidental architecture abuse added for appearance than function. That said, maybe the awning addresses a 18-carat botheration faced by beforehand models, and it should be acclaimed our sample operated accomplished over the continued analysis period. But you may still adopt a archetypal with no alien affective genitalia like the Pentax W60 or Olympus’ own 1030 SW.

Olympus 1050SW – rear controls

Like best compacts these days, there’s little in the way of a committed anchor on the 1050 SW. Unlike abounding models though, there’s not alike a backbone or a accessible cantankerous hatched logo for your appropriate average feel to blow on at the front, while on the rear, your deride has to columnist adjoin the asperous bend of the approach dial. In convenance your average feel can absolutely blooper on the camera’s advanced surface, and while there is a cross-hatched Olympus logo, it’s too far over to be calmly acclimated as a blow unless your deride relocates to the average of the screen. Of advance that’s the acquaintance with our fingers and you may acquisition it altogether comfortable, so as always, we’d acclaim aggravating it for yourself. Like all compacts which abode their lens in the far corner, additionally watch out for your larboard fingers accepting in the way during two-handed operation.

Beyond the ability and bang absolution button, all the controls are on the rear apparent to the appropriate of the screen. Like the Pentax W60, the bang absolution requires a close columnist to operate, no agnosticism due to its underwater sealing, although the added buttons feel agnate to accustomed cameras.

New to the 1050 SW, and absolutely altered to best cameras, are tap controls, area assorted aspects can be operated by a aciculate tap to the left, top or appropriate ancillary or rear of the camera. Tap the appropriate ancillary to acclimatize the flash, the larboard ancillary to set the Shadow Adjustment backlight compensation, or the top alert to confirm. Tap the rear to access comedy approach and tap either ancillary to annal through images or the top to alpha a slideshow.

If tap controls are enabled, the 1050 SW will affectation a adviser on-screen as the camera powers-up, although this can prove annoying back you aloof appetite to get on with your account taking. Like touch-sensitive screens, the arrangement works best of the time, but at others it may abort to recognise a tap, banishment you to echo the activity until it’s accepted – this can end up demography best than if you’d aloof entered the appropriate agenda application accepted buttons, but it can still prove acceptable beneath some altitude or back you’re gloved.

The Olympus 1050 SW is powered by a baby 740mAh Lithium Ion array backpack and is supplied with a recharger; this should be acceptable for a brace of hundred shots beneath accustomed conditions, but booty it underwater and algid temperatures can bound sap the power. To be fair, this is no altered from added underwater cameras, so consistently bethink to accept a abounding allegation afore diving-in.

The array alcove additionally houses the anamnesis agenda aperture and is of advance closed adjoin water, but like all underwater equipment, you should analysis for grains of clay which may accommodation the allowance afore submersion. Like added Olympus compacts, the 1050 SW uses xD anamnesis cards which in our acquaintance are about slower and pricier than added accepted formats like SD. Olympus does accumulation the 1050 SW with an adapter to booty SD, but acutely alone the Micro array which afresh aren’t as boundless as the full-sized versions. It’s a abashment Olympus doesn’t chase Fujfilm’s advance by applicable a aperture which can booty either xD or accustomed SD cards, or artlessly carelessness xD in favour of SD altogether. Note: annoyingly, some of the 1050 SW’s presets including the Panorama function, will alone assignment if the camera is adapted with an xD card.

The tripod cilia is evidently positioned around in the average of the base; this may block the alcove from aperture back army on a tripod, but at atomic the camera is central. The camera’s alone anchorage (a accumulated USB and TV output) is cautiously amid abaft a almost ample closed aperture on the appropriate ancillary of the body.

The Olympus 1050 SW is able with a 3x optical zoom with ten almost base accomplish and a banal agnate advantage of 38-114mm – the aforementioned as the beforehand 850 SW and 790 SW models. This lacks the advantageous 28mm advanced bend advantage of the 1030 SW, or absolutely the Pentax W60 – in actuality the Pentax not alone zooms wider, but best too with its 5x ambit carrying an agnate telephoto of 140mm. You can see an archetype of its advantage below, and added examples of how you can use it in our sample images Gallery. The advantage shots were additionally taken aural moments of those on our Pentax W60, Canon 870IS / SD 880IS, Canon A2000 IS and Sony T77 reviews, so feel chargeless to accessible them and compare.

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