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KIT FOCUS How tough are Toughs?
Turns out that the Tough cameras well deserve their name: this report comes from a Slovenian Olympus Tough camera whose owner Boris loves the mountains… “In February 2011 during a trip to the Slovenian Alps, my owner lost his footing and fell 500 meters – and I fell out into the snow. He was fine, but I spent the entire winter stuck between the rocks, at well below -20. “Once all the snow melted in June 2011, a young Slovenian mountaineer noticed me, picked me up, turned me on – and I worked! Because my owner wrote his address on my battery, I was able to go home.”
WE ALSO CAUGHT UP WITH UK DOWNHILL SKI RACE CHAMPION CHEMMY ALCOTT at the UK launch of the new TG-1, and she had this story to tell about her own Tough experience – which unfortunately doesn’t have the same happy ending…
Introducing the newest addition to our successful Ultra Zoom range, the SP- 820UZ which boasts an astounding 40x optical zoom for getting right up close to your subjects. With Full HD and high-speed, adjustable- frame rate movie recording, Olympus iHS technologies plus an array of advanced features, this new ultra zoom is a fantastic addition to our line-up of bridge compacts.