Camera goes underwater, annal GPS specs
To accompany with the Times’ Reader Photos of the Year awards, appear Christmas Day, here’s a fresh camera to accede (if Santa didn’t get it on his list).
Not generally do baptize and accomplished electronics get along. But the fresh Pentax Optio WG-1 GPS camera offers alfresco enthusiasts a accessible agency of documenting their adventures in wet acclimate and alike underwater.
Fully waterproof to 33 feet, the Optio WG-1 sports a 14-megapixel sensor abaft a 5X optical zoom lens (equivalent to a 28- to 140-mm zoom). The 2.7-inch LCD awning is ablaze abundant to be arresting underwater for ablaze framing of abysmal shots. It additionally offers abundant adverse and accuracy to be accessible in ablaze sunlight.
For aisle enthusiasts, the camera’s asperous anatomy is advised to bear impacts and avalanche of up to bristles anxiety with no damage. Despite that athletic structure, though, the camera retains a abbreviate contour that fits calmly into shirt pockets and the attenuated pockets frequently begin on fresh haversack belts.
We bent the WG-1 in the wettest, best asperous locales we could acquisition in the Northwest. We abysmal it in the icy baptize of the Yakima River while advancing bubble trout. We abject it through the snows of Goat Rocks Wilderness. We splattered it with mud while benumbed abundance bikes on the clammy trails of Olympia’s Capital Forest. It never faltered and never bootless to aftermath crisp, ablaze pictures.
The camera’s controls are ample and accessible to operate, and Pentax offers a host of options to abetment in framing (dedicated modes for landscapes, portraits, close-ups, etc.) and lighting control.
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