Olympus TOUGH-3000 Digital Camera – Turquoise Blue (12 MP, 3.6x Wide Optical Zoom) 2.7 inch LCD
Whether it’s being flung into a backpack or passed around at a family party you’ll never have to worry about getting the µ TOUGH-3000 back in one piece. But the model isn’t just sturdy – it has a number of new features to boot: HD movie recording and HDMI interface 1 GB internal memory and SD card slot Photo Surfing [ib] software USB charging.—-Chronicle all the action in an HD movie and show your friends on a TV connected via HDMI or flip through images easily on the spot with Photo Surfing. Thanks to Olympus’ new [ib] software you can quickly locate those particular events people and locations tagged using GPS Face Detection or the date. Group portraits as well as shots of a favourite band rocking-out on stage come out just as you imagined with the versatile 3.6x wide optical zoom (28-102mm*). Also a plus: you’ll never be left wanting for space or caught with a dead battery with the convenient 1GB of internal memory an additional SD card slot and a practical USB charger.—-Beside… more >>
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Review by MK for Olympus TOUGH-3000 Digital Camera – Turquoise Blue (12 MP, 3.6x Wide Optical Zoom) 2.7 inch LCD
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I had this camera on trial for a week or so. Gave it a good going over as we go out on site a lot and we need something that can take a bit of a battering. Have been playing around with the camera a bit more.
The good stuff:
* Nice and compact, fits in your pocket
* Picture quality is decent but there can be a little feathering around the edges but not a huge problem as the the images are high resolution and you can always crop
* I would give this camera five stars for the HD video quality, it is brilliant, the video quality is very sharp. I admit there was a shaky Cloverfield like effect but that’s down to operator error!
* The user panel on the back is very simpleand more space is left for the 2.7 inch view screen, the view pictures and record video buttons are straight forward
* The battery and card flap has a lock on it so you don’t open it by accident
* you can zoom the picture quite a bit after downloading and the image probably starts to deteriorate at about 300-400% which is not bad (trust me, in our jobs this sort of thing is very handy!)
The bad stuff:
* The buttons on the back are tiny, if you have little fingers then you are okay but most of the guys I work (who would be using it don’t)
* The battery for this camera goes in either way but only charges in one direction (match the olympus to olympus logo on the front). It’s a minor thing but it was annoying and I couldn’t work out why it wasn’t charging and I’m not the only one who was baffled.
* The software for the camera is installed in the camera memory but you can only access if there is no memory card in the camera – this is not included in the instructions.
* No viewfinder and the lens does not have a protective cover.
It’s a pretty good picture camera but the film is very superior, I would buy it just for that alone.