Olympus TG-1 & PT-053 Housing

Rob Spray · Issue 68, Sep/Oct 2012 · pp. 24–27

Products mentioned: Olympus TG-1, PT-053 housing, Olympus TG-810, Olympus XZ-1, Canon D10, Canon S100

If you’re a lifestyle kinda dude/dudette you may have heard of the Olympus Tough range. If you’re always living life to the extreme and hanging ten you might well have one or perhaps one of the many rugged, flat little cameras that their success kicked off. They were all well and good and as robust as these flat cameras usually were, photographic capability sometimes took a back seat. That situation has had some relief airlifted in… enter the lens fetish camera for masochists! I have a great life and it got better recently when I was asked out to Gozo to test some cameras. This was a chance to eye Olympus’ underwater range and rates as the kind of invitation that has a ‘yes, please’ floating in the air beside ready to use immediately. Of course there were big cameras and medium cameras but in true three bears style there was also a baby camera. The baby of this party was the new Tough TG…