Late last year, we took a brief look at Olympus' Tough TG-810, and came away unimpressed by its image quality. Just a few short months later, the company has offered up an interesting alternative that aims to answer the concerns we--and other reviewers--raised. The key change in the Olympus TG-820 iHS is a switch to a new twelve megapixel, backside illuminated CMOS image sensor. The combination of a larger pixel size due to the slight decrease in resolution, and a greater light-gathering area per pixel due to the BSI design bode well for an improvement in image quality. Thankfully, the... (read more)
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