Canon D10: Shock, Water and Freeze-Proof

Canon is making a new, ruggedized camera, the D10. How do we know how tough it is? Because it has a camouflage color scheme, the universal symbol of manliness.

Weird, bulbous, cartoonish design aside, the D10 looks like a great outdoor camera. The D10 can be frozen, dropped and drowned and it’ll still grab pictures with a perfectly sufficient 12.1 megapixels and a 4x, stabilized optical zoom.

The limits: 33 feet under water, a four foot drop onto hard ground, and a temperature range of 14-104°F. And if you hate the camo-look, you can swap out the faceplates with bright, garish, easy-to-find-in-the-snow colors. At $330, it isn’t cheap, but then, you probably won’t have to buy another camera for a long time.