Magic Filter On Olympus Stylus Tough Cameras?

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Magic Filter On Olympus Stylus Tough Cameras?

by susan
(columbia, sc)

Hi, I think I've told you about getting an Olympus Stylus Tough. Well, when I scrolled through the settings it says magic filter and I've wondered if that's the same magic filter you talked about. I'm really excited about not having to deal with a case on my camera, but I do want to know about that please. Thanks and glad the Maui guide is close to finish. I've already seen I can download it onto my iPad looking at the Bonaire guide. That'll be my next big trip. Thanks, Susan

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Dec 09, 2010
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by: Galen & Nicole

Susan, the magic filter on your Olympus Stylus Tough camera is different than the magic filter I use. What I use is a redish colored physical filter that gets placed in front of my lens.

On the bottom of my review page for the Canon S90 you can see what the magic filter looks like on my camera.

The magic filter on your camera is an in camera processing feature that applies a variety of different effects to your pictures. Here is how the Olympus website describes them:

"Pop Art ? Enhance and saturate colors to create vivid, high-impact pictures that express the joyful, lighthearted feeling of the Pop Art style of the 1960s;

Pin Hole ? Reduce the peripheral brightness of an image as though it were shot through a pin hole, connecting the viewer intimately with the subject at the center;

Fish-Eye ? Emulate the wide angle of a fish-eye lens by taking extremely wide, hemispherical images and magnifying the center of the frame; and

Drawing ? Turn your image into a sketch outline for children to color."

None of those filter effects settings are similar to the magic filter I use, and they only apply a "look" to a picture after it is taken.

But, there should be an underwater white balance mode setting on your camera that you may wish to try to improve your colors.

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