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TMCNet: Jonathan Takiff: Some cameras for the roughest or klutziest among us

[March 15, 2010]

Jonathan Takiff: Some cameras for the roughest or klutziest among us

Mar 15, 2010 (Philadelphia Daily News - McClatchy-Tribune News Service via COMTEX) -- THE GIZMOS: Today we have cameras to bang around; a techy remedy for a St. Patrick's Day dilemma; and Android eccentricities.

SAVED BY THE BELLS & WHISTLES (AND RICE): Judging from recent announcements of new, super-tough digital still cameras, and a self-help bulletin just issued by the Geek Squad, many of us need help keeping our electronics devices intact.


And that goes double around St. Patrick's Day, when the risk dramatically rises for spilling green suds on our usually sober cameras and mobile phones.

PUMPED-UP IMAGE MAKERS: A new hoard of rugged cameras holds appeal to both the sporty crowd and the klutzes among us.

What kind of abuse can these snap shooters take? The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS2 ($399.95) boasts the biggest numbers: waterproof protection down to 33 feet and a shockproof bounce back from drops of up to 6.6 feet.

The DMC-TS2's 4.6 power Leica zoom lens and ability to shoot moving video in the AVCHD Lite high-definition format are not shabby either. And, like the other rugged cameras in our survey, this Lumix is dust resistant and freeze-proof down to 14 degrees.

Sony's Cybershot DSC-TX5 ($250) seemingly has the least padding. This shooter's less than an inch thin and about the size of a deck of cards, yet it dunks to 10 feet and is shockproof to 6 feet. Optical SteadyShot, a highburst (10 frames per second) shooting mode, panoramic picture stitching and 720p high-def video recording are other allures.

Pentax's Optio W30 ($330) survives a dive 20 feet into the sea and a dry-land fall of up to 4 feet. The Optio jumps out of the pack with a digital microscope mode, focusing on images less than an inch away, with special LED lighting around the lens to illuminate the picture.

And its face recognition feature goes one step beyond with pet recognition, finding, focusing and enhancing the images of up to three dogs and cats. You can even set it to automatically click a pic when Fido faces the lens.

Relative bargain of the brawny bunch, FujiFilm's FinePix XP10 ($199.95), dives to 10 feet without springing a leak and shakes off a hard fall of about 3 feet. Auto scene recognition, face detection, a five-power optical zoom and a snazzy metal body available in five colors are also on the table.

MORNING AFTER REMEDIES: OK, so now we know what to look for the next time we buy a camera. But what to do when a less-sturdy camera (or cell phone) takes an unintended bath _ perhaps in the pool of green beer that holiday celebrants will be frolicking in this weekend? Won't hurt to try the surprisingly low-tech, seven-step cure proposed in a Geek Squad survival bulletin utilizing "everyday" moisture-absorbing agents. Here's the strategy: 1. Turn off the drenched camera or phone and remove the battery.

2. Dry the device inside and out with a clean cloth.

3. Locate a stash of uncooked rice or a sealed bag of beef jerky. (For real.) 4. If you have the dry rice, pour a pile into a tight-lidded container. If you have a bag of jerky, open it up, take out the silica (moisture absorbing) packet and put the unopened packet in your airtight container.

If you're hungry, have a piece of jerky.

5. Place the dunked device in the container with the rice or silica packet.

6. Secure the container lid tight and leave it overnight.

7. The next day, replace the battery and (hopefully) start that baby up.

ANDROID OUTRAGE? The secret's getting out: Not all Android phones built on the Google operating system are created equal. Made by different suppliers, some function better than others.

For example, the screen on the HTC-built Nexus One (which Google sells directly to consumers) doesn't respond as accurately to touch commands as does the Motorola-made Droid phone that Verizon has exclusively. See for yourself in a video posted at www.androidandme.com.

Even more curious, different models don't all offer the same feature set. Android is an "open" operating system, which means that a mobile-phone company can customize the product to fit a lifestyle vision or make partners happier. Clearly, there's a bit of both afoot in the Motorola Backflip, AT&T's first Android OS smartphone, newly in stores at $99.99 (with a two-year contract).

First thing you notice, egads, is that Google isn't the default search engine. It's been replaced by Yahoo Search, as favored by, um, tens of people from coast to coast.

This has got to be killing the number crunchers at Google, since the company gives away Android with the aim of making money on the advertising that decorates Google search pages.

Another thing I noticed in playing with AT&T's Backflip: The available list of Android apps popping up in the marketplace is smaller and not as appealing as the bunch offered on Verizon's Droid. And you can't download apps from outside the "walled garden" that AT&T has built around this phone.

On the up side, Backflip is a beautiful thing for communications. The phone's sound quality is very good, as long as you keep the bottom twisted away from your chin. The flip-over and backlit (!) keypad proves more accommodating than most for typing, especially in the dark.

The keypad also doubles as a stand, with the display transitioning into an alarm clock/weather station. Cute.

Most important in the envisioneering is the Backflip's unique (for now) Motoblur software. Its home page of cloud-like widgets constantly alerts you to the latest posts from e-mail (including Gmail), Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Last.FM and Picasa.

_____ E-mail Jonathan Takiff at takiffj@phillynews.com.

___ (c) 2010, Philadelphia Daily News.

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