Review on 📷 Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS2 Yellow Waterproof Digital Camera: 14.1 MP, 4.6x Optical Zoom, Image Stabilization by Kevin Carey

I bought this camera for work (also for leisure/rafting etc.). I appraise real estate and thought it would be nice to have a rainproof and fold-down camera to take pictures of the outside, inside, attic and basements of the home since Seattle weather is rarely at its best. I was wrong. The pictures are absolutely awful. My $125 Canon Powershot 1100 IS takes crystal clear shots of whatever I need, whatever the weather, and when I traded it in for this it was pretty clear that it wasn't a great camera for anything but super sunny optimum conditions was (because those were the only good conditions). photos I've ever seen of him). I've spent a few weeks thinking that I just need to learn the differences between these cameras, how they interact with lighting conditions based on specific settings. I was wrong. Interior photos were fine when taken in good light, but even then color reproduction was poor and generally fuzzy compared to any point-and-shoots I've used (of which there have been many). I'm sure people take good close-up shots of people in great light and decent underwater shots in clear tropical waters, but for a $300 camera with a Leica lens it's obnoxious and shoots anywhere. No image captured outdoors on a cloudy day was ever sharp, but even in sunny weather when captured indoors, details were blurred (brick/wood lines were smeared, overall poor image quality) and this confused me, when I delivered it to my customers. Add to that slow optics and a decidedly bad sensor and you have a $50 camera in a $250 body. I really tried to love this camera as the exterior was exactly what I wanted but I need usable images. I have many years of experience in photography on all types of cameras; This was not due to bad camera settings. Since then I've gone back to my cheap camera which image quality is inferior to this camera rather than buying another brand/model with similar waterproof/shockproof ratings. my Joby Gorillapod which I placed on the ground from both cameras from the same angle and distance with the same camera settings and the discrepancy in noise and image quality on the TS2 versus the Powershot SD1100 was huge; at 2x and 4x it was almost ridiculous. Don't waste your money on this, look at the Canon D10 or the Olympus Tough series if you need a waterproof camera for travel and entertainment.