It’s a fairly well-established rule that electronics and water Do Not Mix. Or, rather, it used to be. Panasonic has made a habit of bucking that trend recently, with such notebooks as the ToughBook CF-Y5 - which was happy even after being buried in the snow! - and camcorders like the SW20 and its successor, the SW21.
Panasonic has instilled similar water- and shock-proof credentials on its Lumix DMC-FT1 compact camera and deemed to invite me out to go sailing with Skandia Team GBR in Palma to put the claims to the test. That’s not quite as strange an invite as it sounds. For a start, Panasonic is not only a sponsor of the British Olympic sailing team, but also a major sponsor of the 2012 games.
The Olympic team’s coaches use Panasonic’s waterproof cameras and camcorders as part of their training programmes, enabling sailors to review their performance on-the-water back on the shore. As such, jumping on board a selection of coaches’ RIBs and taking a quick cruise in a Laser Bahia sounds like a perfect test of the FT1’s performance. And as a sailor myself, getting to meet the likes of Nick Dempsey was rather awesome, to say the least.
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