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MuddyMike · 05-20-2011, 07:56 AM

I've lost 2 cameras to water (Rain & Ocean) in the last year, so I finally splurged on a Pentax WG-1, that hopefully will be difficult for me to break.

Waterproof to 33 feet (haven't tested this). It's a little bloated with features I'll probably not use, but other features are pretty neat. Panorama, Microscope mode, & lots of other preset picture settings.

Coolest feature besides the ruggedness is the built in GPS chip. It writes your location to the meta data. If you use Picasa, it will read that data and show you a map of an area, with clickable thumbnails of where you took the picture. You can turn off that feature on either the camera, or in your Picasa album for privacy reasons. They have non GPS versions for about $50 less.

The quality of the pictures themselves are decent, this isn't near DSLR quality. Also the GPS receiver isn't very strong, so some pictures may not get the location data on them. Obviously inside it doesn't pick up, but sometimes outside it is a little slow.

05-20-2011, 07:56 AM	#5
MuddyMike Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Temecula, CA Posts: 111	I've lost 2 cameras to water (Rain & Ocean) in the last year, so I finally splurged on a Pentax WG-1, that hopefully will be difficult for me to break. Waterproof to 33 feet (haven't tested this). It's a little bloated with features I'll probably not use, but other features are pretty neat. Panorama, Microscope mode, & lots of other preset picture settings. Coolest feature besides the ruggedness is the built in GPS chip. It writes your location to the meta data. If you use Picasa, it will read that data and show you a map of an area, with clickable thumbnails of where you took the picture. You can turn off that feature on either the camera, or in your Picasa album for privacy reasons. They have non GPS versions for about $50 less. The quality of the pictures themselves are decent, this isn't near DSLR quality. Also the GPS receiver isn't very strong, so some pictures may not get the location data on them. Obviously inside it doesn't pick up, but sometimes outside it is a little slow.