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Fly Fishing With Robert Jarvis
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Olympus MJU 720 SW
Features
: Rob's Test The LCD monitor's outer cover and the front lens are both made from scratch resistant glass. The warranty covers the camera against flooding to a depth of three metres. In my experience no device so far built by man can withstand sand so don't place it on the beach or the outer moving parts will become clogged with fine silica particles. The exposure compensation is very handy when trying to balance different lighting situations. Glare reflected from shiny surfaces can be reduced to a similar intensity of illumination over the rest of the subject. When submerging the camera in murky or salt water remember to dry the camera and clean the lens afterwards or residue will coat the lens and affect your images in a number of ways. Firstly it will soften the image, secondly there will be a reduction in contrast and last but not least the prints will appear to have dust on them. The camera has five image quality settings SHQ, HQ, SQ1, SQ2 and SQ. SHQ provides an image size of 3072 x 2304 which equates to a file size of around 3 meg. At SHQ the internal memory stores 5 images, while the 1 gig memory card will hold 294 images. I also purchased an extra battery, a one gig memory card and a Lowepro holster. The battery doesn't last long when using the flash or uploading images to the computer. Scrolling through the camera's menu also drains the battery so two fully charged batteries should see a day of photography end well. The one gig memory card with its capacity equivalent to 8 rolls of 36 exposure film should allow me to snap the big one even at the end of the day. Because this camera will be carried where my SLR would not I needed a neoprene holster. The Lowepro D-Pods 20 holster is perfect as the camera slips in easy.
The image files generated by the camera are JPG not RAW so if this is something that is important to you unfortunately you will have to keep looking for another camera. In Super macro the camera takes very detailed images as these next two images demonstrate. The first image is what the camera captured.
The second image is just a zoomed in view of the first. This statue only stands 75mm high but the detail expressed in the old mans face is outstanding.
This next image was taken in the middle of the day, hand held and without any field flash. I did not engage the image stabilisation as an experiment in sharpness and to see how good the auto focus is.
Again the second image is just a zoom in of the first image to see what is sharp and what is not. The eye of the fish is still not too bad while the bead chain on the fly is razor sharp.
Every fishing photographer will have a drawer full of images that were taken at noon of another angler with a hat on. Yes, you know what I mean, the fish looks good but the face of the angler holding the fish is black from shade cast by the hat. The spot meter coupled with the internal flash of this camera makes this problem a thing of the past as this next image shows.
The last item on my camera test journey is landscapes. This image I took was again hand held in the middle on the day. Not bad, great depth of field. The lens is only small but it sure takes great images.
So, for the progressive fisho , this is a great camera. The waterproof case is probably its greatest feature as I have seen 5 SLR's , 2 flashes and 1 compact camera flooded while on fishing adventures with other anglers. Also in the last 3 months I have seen 3 Mobile Phones (including my own) flooded, but that is another story..
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