The cameras reviewed here will zoom (optically) from about 24 mm to 100 mm. An optical zoom found on Tough cameras actually pulls the subject closer in the viewfinder. The digital zoom found in most phones is merely a low-quality crop of the image in your viewfinder. Unlike many phone cameras, Tough cameras have optical telephoto lenses, not digital zooms. Good lenses that are sharp edge to edge with accurate color reproduction are the cornerstone of good photography. Read More: The Best 4-Season Tents Quality Optics Tough cameras can function in rain, snow, and sandstorms and withstand extremes of hot and cold temperatures. Tough cameras are tough! Weatherproof, waterproof, and crushproof, they can survive being dropped onto rocks, buried in mud, tossed at grizzly bears, and stomped on by moose. Although Tough Cameras are video capable, and can shoot high quality video, they are not primarily video cameras. Tough cameras are sophisticated auto focus, auto exposure, point and shoot cameras with video capability. GoPros can take stills from the video but these kind of cameras are primarily dedicated to video. While action cameras are fully water and weatherproof, they only have one wide angle focal length and a point of view that usually comes from being mounted on a helmet or other object. Even in a protective case, a cell phone is still a cell phone with shortcomings in the camera department: a fixed focal length lens with limited telephoto capability (most will do a digital zoom which produces lower quality images) and limited exposure control.Ī tough camera is not an action camera, like the GoPro Hero 8. Don’t bounce your phone off a boulder, take it into a sandstorm, let it freeze or overheat or shoot with it at any depth underwater. If you shoot in the rain, drop your phone into a creek or take a dunking while rafting, you’re covered.īut I wouldn’t test a cell phone’s durability much further than that.
Many new cell phones like the Google Pixel 6, Samsung Galaxy S22 or iPhone 13 are weather and waterproof-to a point. As cell phones have evolved so too has the quality of images produced with them.
Let’s start with what tough cameras are not.
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