Took one of these as a pocket camera to Bali and Raja Ampat with no housing. Excellent additional camera to add to the gear bag. I went white water rafting with it and got some great videos.
Note that in video mode it defaults to the lower resolution. You need to go into general settings and set the image size from QVGA to VGA in order to get the better resolution video. Obviously not HD, but great for a travel cam.
As noted, it does not shoot RAW, nor does it manual white balance, but it does have an underwater mode.
Purchased this camera as an alternate to the Olympus C-5060 in an Olympus housing just in time for a trip to Western Australia. Perfect small camera for in the jeans pocket--and since it was water-resistant to 33FSW, no problems if the elements turned rainy on me.
Bought the housing for it while in OZ, and took some spiffy, touristy U/W shots of a local dive buddy while he was hunting cray. (Tasty cray, if I may add.)
Two days later, I fell tumbling down the stone embankment at South Mole in Freemantle with the camera in it's housing inside a thigh pocket.
I broke my ankle; the 8000 and Olympus housing for it came through without a scratch, and continue to work well nearly four months after the accident--both above and below the surface.
If you want a good travel camera that can take punishment, I can highly recommend the Stylus Tough-8000 to you (be sure to get the housing as well; you won't regret it!).
Just don't go field testing it like I did. Hospitals are dull places to spend half your vacation before flying home. Of course, that gives me an excuse to go back to Australia--and you can bet the Stylus Tough-8000 will be going back with me!