Olympus mju 790 SW: The new underwater wonder
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By Alex Villafania
INQUIRER.net
ONLY a few things would make a splash buff blush, and among them is getting a camera that can be taken underwater, be frozen down to below five degrees Celsius, and be dropped from a height of 1.5 meters (shoulder length).
This sounds familiar because Olympus already did this with the mju 725 about three years ago. Then it followed up with the mju 750 in 2006 and now, the company has recently introduced the mju 790 SW. So far, the mju 790 is the most high-tech all-terrain consumer camera from Olympus and it certainly lives up to the hype of the best underwater camera in the market.
Two months ago, I was able to test the mju 770 by sinking it in a bucket of water and chucking it inside my freezer. This time the mju 790 SW took a more sustained test when I brought it to Miniloc island in El Nido, Palawan. Of course, that’s the juicy part — and here’s an underwater video I took to show the mju 790 SW in action.
