Bestselling Olympus Stylus 1030SW 10.1MP Digital Camera Reviews: Features, Specs and Price
July 21, 2009 by eCamera Talk
Filed under Olympus
Today we are going to introduce a super cool Olympus camera, Olympus Stylus 1030SW, which has been a bestseller on Amazon for a long time and now its popularity is still growing day by day. So we’ve got enough reason to discuss it today. Well, let’s begin to find out what’s special in this camera.
The Olympus Stylus 1030SW is a 10.1 megapixel point-and-shoot digital camera with a rough-and-ready body that is waterproof, crushproof, shockproof, and freeze-proof. A 3.6x optical zoom lens provides a wider-than-average 35mm-equivalent focal length of 28mm-102mm and is complemented by a 5x digital zoom. At f/3.5-f/5.1, the lens isn’t the fastest glass in town, but the camera specializes in outdoor shooting, so the speed of the lens should suffice under most outdoor conditions.
The Stylus 1030 SW is one tough camera. The Shockproof, Waterproof, Freezeproof and Dustproof design gives active people the confidence to take this camera anywhere and shoot in nearly any condition. Plus, the wide-angle lens lets users capture more of what they see.
CNET reviewed the Olympus Stylus 1030SW like this:
The good:
Rugged, sealed body that’s waterproof, crushproof, shockproof, and freezeproof; solid build and design, onboard Guide for beginners; live preview.The bad:
Average image quality and performance.The bottom line:
Other cameras may deliver better image quality and performance, but none can survive the range of conditions that the Olympus 1030 SW was designed for.
The Olympus Stylus 1030SW comes with a lot of wonderful features, let’s take a look.
Features:
- The 1030SW’s basic feature set is complemented by on-board Help, a Shooting Guide, the very useful Perfect Shot Preview (which gives you a preview of how a photo will look with various settings such as White Balance), a live Histogram and Frame Assist.
- There’s also a Shadow Adjustment feature on the Olympus 1030SW that is designed to balance shadows and highlights in various situations such as backlit scenes, and a Manometer that measures air pressure, so mountain climbers and scuba divers have a reference point of the height (or depth) at which an image is captured.
- Face Detection and a post-processing automatic Perfect Fix feature add to the Olympus Stylus 1030SW’s capabilities.
- Optical image stabilization is not available. Instead, the 1030SW utilizes its ISO range of 80 to 1600 for what the company calls “Digital image stabilization.”
These are just the main features this camera has, it also offers many other cool features, you can enjoy them by yourself when you get the camera.
Specs:
- 10-megapixel image sensor captures enough detail for photo-quality 18 x 24-inch prints
- 3.6x optical wide-angle zoom; Face Detection
- 2.7-inch HyperCrystal II LCD
- Waterproof to 33 feet; shockproof to 6.6 feet
- Stores images on xD Picture Cards
Price: $429.95 (on Amazon)
This is a very reasonable price for such a cool Olympus camera, people are glad to accept it.
What users said about this camera? Let’s take a look.
I love this camera!!! It takes beautiful picts both wet and dry. We were just on vacation in Hawaii and used it on a sailing trip with lots of splashing water and underwater in…
I purchased the 1030SW before I went on a cruise 2 years ago, and I really love it. I was able to take it snorkeling and it took great underwater shots.
So what do you think about the Olympus Stylus 1030SW camera?
If you want to learn more about the Olympus Stylus 1030SW camera and get it, you can find it on Amazon and eBay.
