(Credit: Pentax)
While there are plenty of rugged digital cameras to go around these days, Pentax and Olympus have been making them the longest. The new WG-3 is Pentax's 15th-generation ruggedized camera and it's going directly after Olympus' top models, the Stylus Tough TG-1 iHS and TG-2 iHS.
The key features of the Olympus are its 4x f2.0-4.9 25-100mm lens and the option to attach a lens adapter for add-on conversion lenses. And that's exactly what you get with the WG-3; the exact same lens specs, and you can put on a lens adapter and wide-angle conversion lens to expand the wide end to 20mm. Having the bright f2.0 aperture available at the wide end comes in very handy when lighting isn't the best, so you don't immediately have to use high ISO settings.
Of course it's waterproof, cold-proof, shockproof, dust-proof, and crushproof, too. The WG-3 can go on dives down to 45 feet, be dropped from up to 6.6 feet, survive 220 pounds of pressure, and keep shooting in temperatures as low as 14 degrees Fahrenheit.
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