Pentax Optio WG-3 Camera Review

Talk about Pentax going the rugged route, but with its latest Optio WG-3, you got a nifty outdoors camera that can take note of a few other important things like barometric pressure, geo location, altitude and underwater depth.

Fashionably, the Optio WG-3 looks nice to pair up with trail sneakers.  Thee camera has a 16-megapixel, 1/2.3-inch BSI CMOS sensor, a 4x lens that can open at an f/2 wide-angle maximum aperture, along with options for 1080/30p and 720/60p video capture. By default, its waterproof to 14 meters (46 feet), shockproof to 2 meters (6.5 feet) and freeze-proof to -10 degrees Celsius (14 degrees Fahrenheit). It has a rechargeable lithium ion battery that can average 200 images when fully charged. The Optio WG-3 can take a beating like your wallet at $300-$350.

Geonaute's 360 Degree Sports Camera

With the rush of action head-cams on the market mainly targeted for extreme sports enthusiasts, Geonaute is reinventing the point-of-view action cams by giving you another angle and its a full 360 degree one. Showcasing a three 8-megapixel wide-angle lens, Geonaute's 360 degree sports camera gives you a detailed spherical field of view which offers you more options for editing later on. In terms of getting the best shots, you can set the camera to capture everything or stay in one position like a rear facing shot.

For one thing with this high-octane sports cam, you are you're own walking/running/spinning Google's Street View. In 360 video mode the resolution is 2,048 x 1,024 and in still mode and even time lapse mode, you get a 4,096 x 2,048 resolution. The Field-of-View is 360 degrees on the horizontal and a full-on 150 degrees vertically, but still a complete viewing sphere as promised. The 3,000 mAh cam battery can run up to two hours of footage, and the microSD card slot will take 32GB cards. It's a pretty sturdy outdoor cam that can withstand the elements and the same forces the sports enthusiast is subjected to.