The Pentax WG-1 offers many robust options along with advantages over built-in GPS the summer tourists. Otherwise, it is a pretty average compact for easy and fast.

In the February of 2011, as the company’s 12 generation of adventure series of digital cameras compact announced is the WG-1 GPS on the market accompanied a WG-1 variant, which, not surprisingly, that the GPS function is pursued and draws coordinates with captured images. While the former camera is the subject of our review, apart from GPS the features of the two cameras are identical, so that for reasons of brevity, we we only our camera be the WG 1 unless otherwise indicated.

The big attraction is the WG-1 which hardened design which makes it stand up, would play havoc with a standard compact digital: waterproof to 33 feet deep, and dust proof and; shockproof, if by up to 5 meters to withstand; Coldproof up to 14 degrees Fahrenheit and with a break-resistant construction that can withstand a weight force, that up to 220 pounds.

Once you have past that hard outer layer that remains is a quite typical compact: the WG 1 is available in black or purple, the WG-1 GPS in grey or green. Both cameras share the same hardware, a 14 megapixel sensor and 5 X zoom lens for the focal range of 28-140 mm in the 35 mm equivalents. Here is a look at this extreme.

In addition, is a 2, 7-inch LCD monitor, 720 p HD video, digital shake reduction, face detection, smile capture and blink detection technology and a nice digital microscope function, which contains 5 LED lights arranged around the lens, lighting to support extreme close ups. The native ISO range is 80-1600, 3200 and 6400 are however available with reduced resolution (4 and 5 MP). The camera uses SD/SDHC/SDXC storage media and it is an internal storage capacity of 97 MB. Pentax include USB and AV cable, a lithium ion battery and charger, camera strap, carabiner strap, macro stand and CD-ROM software from any camera.

The WG 1 is hard enough to risk go, but it is what kind of images generated in the process? Let us find out.