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Olympus Mju 1030SW Digital Camera - Midnight Black (10.1MP, 3.6x Digital Zoom) 2.7 inch LCD
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(5 out of 5) by Mr. D. Dodwell-Bennett on Feb 8, 2009 (England)I am a professional photographer, and one of the pains of this is I'm always taking the photographs wherever we go as a family.
My wife has been through three cameras in two years (too big, too complicated, broken) and finally I appear to have found the solution. Easy to use, water and bombproof; finally my kids will realise they had a father when they grow up and look at our family photos!
Great little bit of kit.
My wife has been through three cameras in two years (too big, too complicated, broken) and finally I appear to have found the solution. Easy to use, water and bombproof; finally my kids will realise they had a father when they grow up and look at our family photos!
Great little bit of kit.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Useful, but could be better
(3 out of 5) by I. Craig on Feb 6, 2009After my 13 year old son wrecked my last camera, I resolved to buy a family-proof camera and the Olympus Mju 1030 SW seems to fit the requirement. It's not perfect though, and my list of niggles is as follows:
1 - The battery does not seem to last long, and has to be taken out to be recharged.
2 - No memory card: these things are to cheap for a good one not to be included; and the camera is built to take a proprietary card format although an adaptor is supplied - to make things worse, Olympus disables panoramic functionality if you don't use their card.
3 - Non-standard USB lead.
4 - The lens is in the top right-hand corner of the camera; its just too easy to get the tip of a finger or a strap in the shot.
5 - The stick-on decals on the rotary selector are disintegrating. Fortunately the selected mode is shown on the display, but I've only owned this camera for one month.
6 - There are two openings on the camera: at least one too many for a waterproof camera.
7 - The automatic metal lens protector worries me - I think that sand is going to get in and wreck it.
8 - The microphone is in the side of the camera, and is is difficult to not record noise generated by simply holding the camera.
If I were to build a camera like this, I'd make the battery and memory sealed internally and not user accessible. The camera would be recharged and download via a standard USB cable. It would be brilliant if the USB connector could be sealed so the connector port was external - the camera would then remain factory sealed. I bet the camera would be able to go deeper, if there are no openings. The switches would have magnetic contacts through the case. I'd make a dock so that the memory could be downloaded and the camera recharged from AA batteries.
1 - The battery does not seem to last long, and has to be taken out to be recharged.
2 - No memory card: these things are to cheap for a good one not to be included; and the camera is built to take a proprietary card format although an adaptor is supplied - to make things worse, Olympus disables panoramic functionality if you don't use their card.
3 - Non-standard USB lead.
4 - The lens is in the top right-hand corner of the camera; its just too easy to get the tip of a finger or a strap in the shot.
5 - The stick-on decals on the rotary selector are disintegrating. Fortunately the selected mode is shown on the display, but I've only owned this camera for one month.
6 - There are two openings on the camera: at least one too many for a waterproof camera.
7 - The automatic metal lens protector worries me - I think that sand is going to get in and wreck it.
8 - The microphone is in the side of the camera, and is is difficult to not record noise generated by simply holding the camera.
If I were to build a camera like this, I'd make the battery and memory sealed internally and not user accessible. The camera would be recharged and download via a standard USB cable. It would be brilliant if the USB connector could be sealed so the connector port was external - the camera would then remain factory sealed. I bet the camera would be able to go deeper, if there are no openings. The switches would have magnetic contacts through the case. I'd make a dock so that the memory could be downloaded and the camera recharged from AA batteries.