I’m having a hard time believing how Olympus can charge almost three hundred dollars (depending, as always, on where you shop) for its 850SW camera.  It’s enough to make me wonder, in fact, if that whole idea of having options in colors in cameras and the resultant cameras being crap is actually right.

The Olympus 850SW is an eight megapixel camera with a 3x optical zoom, xD picture card compatibility, and is waterproof to ten feet and can survive a fall of five feet.

This is a smal, thin, light camera that you’ll barely even notice carrying, and the fact that it’s got some shock resistances makes it even more amazing.  But come on…an eight megapixel camera for three hundred bucks??  I can get a TWELVE for almost half that!  Who in their right mind would buy this cutesy-poo camera with less utility and greater price than a comparable model?

There’s no way I can recommend this camera–the sheer discrepancy in value and utility is entirely too great to withstand.

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