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Always On - Rugged underwater camera showdown

2013-06-11
welcome to the funnest row test that I think we've done yet yeah even better than the skydiving yeah we're on a boat with a whole pod of dolphins surrounding us and taking pictures with our new action cam I know we're so old school we're actually using cameras instead of phones so I am gonna try out the hopefully waterproof and otherwise rugged fujifilm finepix XP 200 and you have the olympus tough TG 2d now both of these are supposed to be good underwater up to about 50 feet we're gonna test it with just snorkeling in the water and then we're gonna hand them off to some divers to try to take them just a tiny bit deeper thank good to Bert oh my God look at this job just there nature dude pretty good huh yeah that's outstanding all right I have to say so far our cameras are holding up pretty well yeah it's gonna come down to image quality okay so we have the two Tim's here yeah we wanted to make it fair so we got to Tim's we didn't want to have that make them more off exactly and the Tim's are diver we are not edge of ever IR dive certified so we're gonna go ahead and give each of you a camera Tim's are you ready you're all right down to two Tim's in the water two tips in the ladder damn it I think one thing we can guarantee is that Tim would Olympus might be done oh no it was odd all the way to 130 feet at lost focus around 80 man just when they started coming up she shut off really she had an event so went 100 it was mine yeah floor tour still taking pictures of the other 10 in 130 oh sweet it's got me much more fun than that God probably always so I'm assuming there may be some water in yours I dried mine off to open the battery compartment which we take unlocking it okay there's definitely moisture in there all right a little water right there oh let's yeah that might be what happened to it okay just because my camera doesn't work anymore and every glass surface has moisture under it Oh doesn't mean the pictures might not be amazing let's check them out okay oh nice shot though Thanks Wow Wow oh wow I know that was a great that was a moment ever that's a great photo that's been you got a print that yeah you know put that on the wall I have to say that I'm thinking that image quality is almost a draw at this point I agree unfortunately for your camera that does not appear to be the deciding factor it was fine down to 50 feet but low that not so much I think that both of these cameras did a great job with pictures and video both absolutely I would feel perfectly comfortable taking any of these on a snorkeling trip I just think if you're gonna mess up maybe go a little more rugged yeah that ultimately the Fujifilm stayed strongest it's a little unfair it says right on the front fifty feet so we did exceed that but if you're gonna award a winner the guy that can go beyond and still hold up has got to be the winner yeah I mean I think it's clear that even in non optimal circumstances the fujifilm finepix XP 200 is you
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