Olympus Stylus TOUGH-8000

	Sample Photos
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Sample Photos

In the following sample images, clicking on the larger image will download the full resolution original. Each photo is accompanied by three actual-size crops.

Landscape Sample
			Focal length: 8.89mm ISO: 64 Aperture: f/6.3 Shutter speed: 1/125 of a second One of the upsides of having a tough camera like this is that you can take pictures if you happen to be stuck in a nor'easter. Most cameras would quickly stop working in a snowstorm, but the Tough 8000 kept on clickin' like it was a day at the beach. This holiday card worthy shot was taken with the camera in the iAuto mode, where the camera makes the decisions. It did a decent job, picking a moderate aperture and a fast shutter speed. Which was good, as my hands were shaking at the time.

Super Macro Sample
			Focal length: 6.35mm ISO: 64 Aperture: f/4.1 Shutter speed: 1/125 of a second This shot was taken with the Tough 8000's Super Macro LED mode, which allows the camera to focus down to 2cm and turns on a small LED light on the front of the camera to illuminate the subject. I was hoping that this would give the snow a more sparkly experience. It sort of worked, but the image is a bit dull. This could be fixed in photoshop, though; the images we feature here are shown without post-processing or enhancement,

Landscape sample
			Focal length: 6.53mm ISO: 64 Aperture: f/4.1 Shutter speed: 1/100 of a second This shot was taken in the camera's Snow scene mode, and shows the varying sharpeness of this camera. Although the branch in the center is sharp (the first crop), the ones at the bottom left corner (third crop) are somewhat blurry.

Low Light Sample (program mode)
			Focal length: 11.76mm ISO: 400 Aperture: f/4.7 Shutter speed: 1/4 of a second This image was shot in the camera's program mode, with a single light bulb illuminating the scene from the right, and the flash disabled. Under these difficult lighting conditions, the camera chose a medium ISO and a slow shutter speed, with decent results. There is a significant amount of noise in the image, but the details are still visible.

Still Life Examples

Below are images of our still life captured by the Tough 8000 (and our comparison cameras) at all of the ISO levels that it supports. To see the original file of any image, click on it, but remember that these images are often several megabytes in size and may take some time to download.

	Still Life Comparisons
	Olympus Stylus Tough 8000	Fuji Z33WP	Canon D10	Pentax W80
ISO 64 (80 for the Canon)
ISO 100
ISO 200
ISO 400
ISO 800
ISO 1600
ISO 3200
ISO 6400

NOTE: The images above are not used in our testing or scoring, but are included here to show real-world examples of the differences between cameras at the various ISO settings.

See how the competition stacked up against the Olympus Stylus Tough 8000
Fuji Z33WP	Canon D10	Pentax W80