Olympus Stylus 725 SW

7.10 Megapixels   3.00x zoom   2.5 inch LCD

Back in June I review the Olympus mju 720 SW, a seven-megapixel dense camera intended for great durability - shockproof and water-resistant to a deepness of three meters. I had more than a few doubts about it, not smallest amount its incomplete battery life, over-complicated manage border and unsatisfactory picture quality, but I guess an important person have to have like it because it won the important EISA (European Imaging and Sound Association) prize for the best pouch camera of 2006. I can merely assume they didn’t look at many others.

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In glow of this tribute, in October Olympus launch an efficient version, the mju 725 SW. It looks approximately the same, with the same tough industrial-looking strengthen body, total with bare Allen bolt heads. These strike me as a bit of beauty pretence the first time approximately so in strength of inquiry I undo the three on the front board just to make certain they were genuine bolt. In fact one of them was a false, but the additional two detained the front inset pane in place. The camera come in three color scheme (the Titanium version you see here, plus Deep Blue and pink Red) with only this inset panel life form of the dissimilar color.

The similarity flanked by the two models even extends to the sell price. The mju 720 SW is obtainable online for approximately £220, while the best cost for the new 725 SW is £223.

The merely real dissimilarity between the 720 and its heir is an development to its already imposing toughness. Where the 720 was waterproof to a deepness of three meters, the 725 is water-resistant to five meters, a whole additional 1/5th of an ambiance of pressure, which I’m certain will create a huge dissimilarity.

In the bureaucrat account of the mju 725 the shock-proofing is rated to “MIL normal (MIL-STD 810F)” a multifaceted plus highly specific set of difficult criterion published by the US military. I’ve had a seem at the pertinent section and it seems that it income that the mju 725 SW can endure momentary shock of at least 1,000 G, concerning fifty times what the person body can withstand. It’s very imposing, and it’s certainly comforting to know that the camera can stay alive the type of impact that would turn its proprietor into jam, but I’m not certain it’s in fact any better than the mju 720 in this admiration.

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