Digital Cameras : Olympus Stylus 770 SW

This camera's awesome features came into full use yesterday. I was getting into my girlfriends SUV and the camera fell out of my pocket about 2-3 feet and into a puddle of water. Any other digi cam would have been destroyed but this was unphased.



Its a great camera, only drawback is the slow write speed if you are taking full quality pictures... but I'm not making posters so I turn it down and its perfectly fast. It also has a "select-a-shot" feature that takes 10 simultaneous pictures and you pick the ones you like. I have some SICK action shots using that feature. Overall, this camera fits my life as an avid skateboarder, snowboarder, freediver, spearfisherman. Its a little more on the heavy side but is still quite small.



Its already been worth the cost... Like I said if I had any other camera it would be broken by now. Hide Full Review

I bought this as a father's day present last year and I was sold on the fact that it was able to go underwater up to ten feet without a case. I've taken so many underwater pictures and video's and loved the quality of it! My kids are in competitive swimming and taking videos underwater was a great training tool to show them what they can do to improve. If you were to purchase and develop 24 underwater disposable camera then you might as well invest in this. Besides the underwater feature, I'm a total clutz and am forever dropping (expensive) things like our old video camera and phones! I've dropped this so often and it only has tiny tiny scratches to show for it. Olympus has always been the brand for us as far as quality for the price. The only thing I have to say about the 770 SW is that you have to buy more memory otherwise you will get stuck with a lower resolution and that can take away from the picture. You also want to invest in an extra battery, just because if you are out all day with the camera, by the end of the day you'll probably need it. But that's all fixable, as long as you buy the extra memory (suggest no smaller than 1G) and an extra battery you'll be set! I LOVE MY CAMERA, I've taken so many videos with it that my video camera is collecting dust. This is easy to use, and downloading isn't hard at all. Not to mention the different photo qualities that it has programned in it. I can't express enough how much I love this camera. It's captured so many of our fondes memories in the year that we've had it. Hide Full Review

I'm an avid fisherman, snowboarder, and backpacker. I had T series Sony which was really nice, but I broke it snowboarding. The 770 SW has allowed me to take pictures in every enviroment I'm in without having to worry about the camera. I'm able to take pictures of the fish I catch underwater; How cool is that! I don't have worry about the screen cracking like I did on T series. I'm taking more pictures now because of this. The picture quality is fair to good. The Sony had noticably better pictures, little easier to use, and slightly faster, but hey, I can't take pictures with broken camera. IMHO, this is best camera for people active in the outdoors. Its compact,water resistant, tough(impact resistant), and takes decent pictures. You may want to look at other cameras, if your not an outdoor nut like me. Hide Full Review

i ride a bike could never take a camera along for fear of getting caught in a florida downpour this thing is great and for less than a hundred dollars you can get another battery pack and a 2G memory card thats over 1100 pics with my first charge i took over80 pics with flash and still had battery left wish they had come out with this sooner Hide Full Review