Pogue takes a a few waterproof cams down to the local waterpark for testing and finds Sanyo’s 6MP Xacti E1 to be of better image and video quality than the rest. I have always found the Xacti cam’s nice, but the low light performance to be lacking.
That doesn’t matter when you’re talking about beach and pool time, however. I believe its image quality is better than the other cams in this roundup, but it’s only rated to 5 feet of depth.
He also tests two traditionally shaped 7MP cameras, the Optio W30 ($237) and Olympus’s Stylus 770 SW ($270). The Olympus is a fully rugged setup, shock and extreme temperature resistant, good down to 33 feet of water; the Pentax is good for 10 feet at two hours. I’ve used the previous generation Pentax and loved it for hawaii conditions. But I did lose it on a reef and only then did I learn what Pogue points out: None of these damn things float.
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