There’s one word for the new Olympus Stylus TOUGH-6000 – TOUGH!!!! Spending 14 days on a Mexican eco-adventure means you have to have a camera that will survive anything. This camera is shockproof, waterproof, freezeproof, crushproof and shakeproof and was worth it’s weight in gold on my latest eco-adventure.
Whether I was getting ready to jump off a 30’ tree to zipline (above), or taking pictures of beautiful cenote scenery (below - last photo), the camera took fantastic photos. During the adventure I dropped the camera about four times, a guide stepped on it, and it accidentally fell off a boat twice. No kidding. And guess what? It kept on taking the best darned digital photos I have ever taken.
In the above shot you see hundreds of butterflies at the Sian Ka’an Bioreserve – a world heritage protected site in Mexico. They are zooming, dipping, and diving faster than my eye can keep up on an incredibly windy day – yet, the camera still captured the shot with amazing clarity.
Above you can see a photo I took underwater during murky conditions while only holding the camera in one hand. It is of a diver feeding a stingray and his fishy buddies in at the Xel-Ha eco-park near Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. WOW! No ordinary camera could take a photo like this. Best yet, it is a little hand held camera that can go any where so was easy to put in my back pack or my purse.
It has some amazing features, including the ability to digitally record a movie. Below you can see how I recorded a mini-movie in a cenote in Mexico using my little TOUGH-6000. I am swimming and am taking the photo-mini-movie one-handed while doing it. You will see both over water and underwater shots in the short video. COOL! I love it!
There are lots of other special features on this camera I have never seen before on other cameras including Face Detection, Tap Control (which allows you to tap the camera to take the photo), Beauty Mode (which allows you to smooth a persons complexion during the shot), and several night-shot taking features that were all easy to use. My entire education on how to use the camera happened on the airplane on my way to Mexico. I scanned the manual, hooked it on my wrist and was done.
My overall review is this is one fantastic camera which I have loved using. I can’t wait to show my readers more photos from my greening projects I have planned this spring and summer.
There was only one thing I had trouble with – the wrist strap Olympus provides with the camera does not allow you to tighten it close to the wrist. Because of this it came out of my hand and dropped during some of the more rigorous activities on my incredible Mexican Green Living Eco-Adventure. Hopefully a tighter fitting wrist strap will be easy to find.
Please leave a comment and let me know where I can find a strap that will not be obnoxious looking, but will still hold tight to my wrist.
Thanks Olympus – for making one tough camera that is a pleasure to use. You have opened a whole new world to me in photo taking - wonderful!
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I am just now trying to catch up on your adventures. What a neat experience you had. Sounds like a great camera too. Looking forward to going back to your previous posts.
We just bought a new camera for myself and it has the same issue with the strap. At first I thought it was missing the little clip thing that tightens it but it didn't come with one. Hopefully someone can shed some light on where we can purchase them.
Posted by: Angie (Losing It and Loving It) | April 13, 2009 at 11:47 AM