waterproof archives (117 posts)


New Polaroid XS80 action cam with 1080p video, May 14, 2013
The action cameras continue to be unafraid of the smartphones and the fixed lens P&S digital cameras. Today the Polaroid brand announced a new action camera, the Polaroid XS80 with 1080p video and waterproof up to 30 feet with a... Continue

New Fuji XP200 waterproof CMOS camera with Wifi (with hands-on previews), March 25, 2013
The Wifi camera party continues to grow. Fuji announced a new XP-series waterproof camera with Wi-fi included. It is the new Finepix XP200. Other features include a 5x (28-140mm eq) lens with sensor shift stabilization, 16mp 1/2.3" CMOS sensor, 3-inch... Continue

New Pentax waterproofs: WG-3, WG-3 GPS (starting at f2) and WG-10, January 29, 2013
One more digital camera manufacturer has expanded their waterproof and elementproof camera offerings, trying to splash away the smartphone cannibals. Pentax has announced a two-tier waterproof digital camera refresh. The new WG-3 and WG-3 GPS are more mid-range models with... Continue

New Nikon Waterproof P&S cameras: Coolpix AW110 and S31, January 28, 2013
Waterproof digital cameras are something smartphones, at least for now, cannot cannibalize, so more and more of them are coming out. Nikon announced two of them with these batch, both follow-ups to their predecessor. The Coolpix AW110 is the tough... Continue

New Olympus TG-2 (starts at f2), TG-830 and TG-630 elementproofs, January 7, 2013
Thought we were done? Think again! It is time now for the Olympus press release wave! Olympus generated some interest last year with the Tough TG-1 camera with a bright lens starting at f2. Now Olympus have a follow-up, the... Continue

New Fuji XP60 waterproof P&S in multiple body colors, January 7, 2013
Superzooms and waterproofs are two segments of the digital camera market that at the moment have distinguishing features that can resist the onslaught of smartphones. Case in point, the only mass-market-sensor-size non-superzoom in this 2013 Fuji announcement burst is a... Continue

New Panasonic FT5/TS5 and FT25/TS25 elementproof P&S cameras, January 7, 2013
Just like clockwork, Panasonic announced two new elementproof/waterproof fixed-lens digital cameras in the FT-series which also goes by the name of TS-series. Just like previous years, this is a higher-spec/lower-spec model, with the single-digit model being the "leader" of the... Continue

Newsbytes: Samsung T-primes, RED Dragon fire, Panasonic X-Ray SD, etc, August 10, 2012
A number of newsy items have filled up the buffers, time to empty the buffers with a new edition of the Newsbytes! + Samyang announces Cinema T-versions of their 14mm, 21mm and 35mm primes via dpreview and LMdlP et al... Continue

(SOLD OUT) Daily Deal: Orange Panasonic TS20 waterproof for $99, August 7, 2012
This sold-out before the end of the 24-hour period... Waterproof camera party! The orange waterproof Panasonic TS20/FT20 digital camera is offered as the main Amazon deal for Tuesday for $99 with free shipping. This special is good until 3am eastern... Continue

Crazy Pentax K30 dSLR offer at Costco refuels Pentax P&S discontinuation speculation, July 31, 2012
Pentax Gone Wild at Costco! The membership chain is offering the standard Pentax K30 with 18-55mm kits (black, blue, or white) with these freebies: Pentax WG-1 waterproof camera, Pentax Sling bag and 8GB card for $900 with free shipping which... Continue

New camera announcement: Olympus TG-1 iHS elementproof starts at f2, has converter lenses, May 7, 2012
You can hear the new camera announcement trumpets trumpeting the announcement of a brand new camera right now, the new Olympus TG-1 iHS elementproof model. It shows megapixel restraint with a 12mp 1/2.3" backlit CMOS sensor with a 25-100mm equivalent... Continue

New camera announcement: Fuji XP170 elementproof, May 7, 2012
Once partners in xD, now Fuji and Olympus have parallel dueling press releases for elementproof point and shoot digital cameras. Fuji has just revealed the new elementproof XP170 digital camera with a 14mp CMOS sensor, 5x optical zoom (28-140mm eq),... Continue

Cameraholic Digest: Samsung NX200 review at dpreview & ORB hunting & lots more, February 28, 2012
And now time for a new edition of the Cameraholic Digest, an experimental new approach to rounding up some of the latest happenings. Samsung NX200 gets the dpreview review We start with today's Talking Points Memo: Samsung fans have been... Continue

New Sony Cybershot TX66 and TX20 backlit CMOS waterproofs, February 27, 2012
Another segment of the digital camera market that continues to grow are the waterproof/elementproof digital cameras, and Sony has announced two new ones today, the 18-megapixel TX66 and the 16-megapixel TX20, both with backlit CMOS sensors. Press release parade at... Continue

Canon launches 2nd waterproof Powershot - the D20 [tape-delayed news], February 8, 2012
Canon and Nikon have been very slow to warm up to the waterproof/elementproof camera segment, but with the newly announced Powershot D20, they have two cameras each. The new D20 looks more "aggressive", less toyish but more ...fishy than the... Continue

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