Olympus Mju 770SW

Rob Spray · Issue 45, Nov/Dec 2008 · pp. 22–25

Products mentioned: Olympus Mju770SW, Olympus Mju720SW, PT-035 dive case, Olympus C7070WZ

A year or so ago I rushed to buy an Olympus Mju720SW when it was released as it seemed the perfect tough cookie camera to pick up all those deck shots which my big, heavy housed diving camera was now just too bulky to catch. The camera was robust, it could be dropped from 1.5m, and waterproof, it could be taken to 3m without a case but despite its credentials I never dropped it and didn’t take it unhoused into the water - those levels of indestructibility weren’t quite enough to feel comfortable abusing it. It seems I was unjustified in my squeamishness. The third generation 7series SW model has just landed and now it’s grown up, it has a 10m underwater rating and adds 100kg crush resistance to shrugging off falls from the same height as before. The surprise is that you’d be hard pushed to see where the construction has changed. It looks as though the original ratings were conservative. …