Olympus Tough TG-6 - Hands On
Olympus has recently propelled their most recent Tough arrangement camera, the Olympus TG-6 today, and I have gotten the opportunity to shoot with it for a couple of days a week ago. I am not a bold individual, absolutely I don't do insane exceptional exercises like plunging, hiking, trail running or anything extraordinary, which this camera is intended for. Thusly, I will investigate some uncommon highlights in the Olympus TG-6, for example, the outrageous large scale shooting abilities and remark on the general experience utilizing the camera.
Significant notes: Before we go excessively far, enable me to advise you that right now I am a functioning Olympus Visionary part, being a minister for the brand. The Olympus TG-6 was a loaner from Olympus Malaysia, I had it just for couple of days and it has been returned before the composition of this article. This blog passage isn't an audit of the item.
I didn't get the opportunity to plunge or shoot anything submerged with the TG-6, henceforth this article can't qualify as a total evaluation of the camera. Rather, I am just talking about a couple of key parts of the TG-6, explicitly the full scale shooting abilities, general picture quality and by and large remark on the TG-6 as an imaging apparatus. My involvement with the camera and perceptions might be abstract. All pictures were shot in RAW and minor post-preparing (introduction remuneration, white parity changes, and so forth) was connected through Olympus Workspace.
Olympus Tough arrangement is no more unusual, the numerous manifestations of Tough cameras up to the past TG-5 have won various honors and acknowledgment for the vigorous form quality and unwavering quality. Being waterproof, dustproof, shockproof and freezeproof, tried over and over the Tough cameras dependably endure, and have earned Olympus a solid notoriety in this specific item portion. Truth be told, Olympus throughout the years has chopped out the various varieties of minimized simple to use cameras except for the TG-arrangement, the staying Tough product offering which keeps on being a confirmation for what Olympus is equipped for accomplishing by and large in their imaging items. The two most grounded highlights found on the leader Olympus OM-D framework are climate fixing and prevalent optics, both I am glad to report are available in this new Olympus TG-6.
Maybe the greatest inquiry is - for what reason do I significantly mess with a minimized camera with a little measured picture sensor, particularly me being a city-shielded kid who does not wander out much on outrageous exercises where the Tough camera flourishes? My answer is basic - I have recommended to numerous companions and blog perusers to have a Tough camera helpful as a reinforcement.
The Tough camera is little, it doesn't take much space in your camera pack, should anything happen to your fundamental cameras, in the harshest condition the Tough camera will no doubt endure. There is no doubt that this TG-6 (or some other past cycles of TG cameras) is assembled like a tank. Out of the blue, I am lifting this up and truly giving it a more intensive hope to decide whether the TG-6 is adequately competent as a back up imaging device?
How about we get the key determinations of Olympus TG-6 off the beaten path:
12MP goals on 1/2.33 inch BSI CMOS Image Sensor
Truepic 8 Engine - like Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II and E-M1X
Extreme Features - Waterproof (down to 15m), Droproof, Dustproof and Freezeproof (down to less 10 degrees Celsius)
Olympus focal point 25-100mm F2.0-4.9, with implicit Image Stabilization
Focal point plan - 9 components in 7 gatherings
Very Macro AF - 1cm least centering separation, presently accessible in P and A shooting modes (in TG-5 just accessible in Microscope mode)
Worked in field detecting and following highlights - GPS, Thermometer, Manometer, Compass and Acceleration sensors
Improved LCD-Screen with 1.04 Million Dots (over TG-5 with 460k Dots)
Clearly I was unfit to test each and every component recorded above, and I will simply hop directly into the most pleasant piece of this article - shooting with the Olympus TG-6!
Realizing that the TG-6 can go unimaginable near the subjects I explicitly did creepy crawly full scale with the camera first. I additionally brought it out for some road shooting rounds, both in the day just as night time.
For the creepy crawly full scale shooting, I utilized A mode (Aperture Priority) and physically select the F-number, ordinarily not the most stretched out to get somewhat more profundity of field. I likewise actuated the in camera streak. I controlled the glimmer control physically. ISO was fixed at 100 (least) for ideal picture quality.
I at last discovered something I have been searching for a long, long time - an Ant Mimic Spider going after the Ant it was imitating. I have shot Ant Mimic creepy crawlies commonly, and have seen them together with different ants, however never caught one eating the insect.
This was my first shot (I realize this isn't a phenomenal picture, however to me it was my first, so it was exceptional), and I figured out how to shoot it with the Olympus TG-6! The lighting was not perfect since it was from a brutal direct in camera streak, however to be completely forthright, regardless of details, realizing that it was a reduced camera that delivered this, with negligible exertion, the general outcome was still very noteworthy.
I am not expecting the dimension of subtleties I get from utilizing an OM-D camera and Olympus M.Zuiko 60mm F2.8 full scale focal point, that would be an uncalled for examination. I have even redone my remote glimmer procedure to accomplish preferred lighting over this. In any case, for a streamlined simple to use exertion, I think the TG-6 performed outstandingly. Pictures told the truth out, hues were punchy and reasonable and there was adequate chomp in the sharpness. Truth to be told, that one little focal point on the TG-6 is one hell of an extraordinary focal point!
I clearly did not go as close as 1cm for every one of my shots, I didn't need to, and the creepy crawlies I was shooting were not unreasonably small that I expected to go excessively close. For most shots, the creepy crawlies were around 3-10cm far from the focal point, with a greater part of them being nearer thsn 5cm. What's more, I have zoomed in the focal point to the farthest end 100mm comparable for all the creepy crawly shots.
Concentrating on the bugs at such close up separation was out of the blue quick and responsive. I had no issues securing concentrate even substantial shade condition where numerous bugs and bugs were covering up in. I moved the centering territory around to ensure that I accomplish basic exactness on the precise zone I needed. The centering was adequately solid to take care of business.
My greatest gripe of the camera up until this point? No capacity to control the shade speed. I simply feel that having Aperture Priority and Program presentation modes are valuable in reality, however why exclude Shutter Priority or far and away superior, full manual shooting mode? To state that the clients whom the TG-6 is focused for are not genuine picture takers and may not want to utilize the propelled shooting highlights is an inadmissible reason. There are many propelled includes in camera - Pro Capture Mode, center stacking and the way that the camera permits RAW picture shooting demonstrate that this camera is setting up the clients for the following propelled level in photography. Not having the choice to control screen speed is a bit of constraining.
I wish I could do some moderate screen speed movement obscure shots of the water, or people on foot strolling in the city. Most likely there are workarounds to compel the camera to accomplish moderate screen speed, yet a committed control would have been a superior alternative.
Utilizing the Olympus TG-6 in the city was a significant fascinating knowledge. I have constantly wanted to work with littler cameras doing road photography so individuals don't quickly feel undermined at the nearness of a colossal secret elements pushed before their appearances. In any case, the splendid red shade of the TG-6 loaner I had did not help me being stealthy by any means, as the strong red shouted consideration. Having said that, there is a dark TG-6 variation, which I ought to have by and by mentioned for my very own shooting rather than the red.
The focal point, for non-large scale shooting, performed well in all circumstances. The focal point handles wide edge great, with no contortion observable, and this could very well additionally halfway due to in-camera programming adjustment kicking in hard. I noticed a few hints of Chromatic Aberration, however that would be me scratch picking, as the purple bordering in brilliant complexity regions can without much of a stretch be disposed of in post-handling. Sharpness was predictable all through the central range right to the longest fax zoom. I tried the focal points in different lighting condition, shooting subjects close and far, and they all rendered perfectly.
Significant notes: Before we go excessively far, enable me to advise you that right now I am a functioning Olympus Visionary part, being a minister for the brand. The Olympus TG-6 was a loaner from Olympus Malaysia, I had it just for couple of days and it has been returned before the composition of this article. This blog passage isn't an audit of the item.
I didn't get the opportunity to plunge or shoot anything submerged with the TG-6, henceforth this article can't qualify as a total evaluation of the camera. Rather, I am just talking about a couple of key parts of the TG-6, explicitly the full scale shooting abilities, general picture quality and by and large remark on the TG-6 as an imaging apparatus. My involvement with the camera and perceptions might be abstract. All pictures were shot in RAW and minor post-preparing (introduction remuneration, white parity changes, and so forth) was connected through Olympus Workspace.
Olympus Tough arrangement is no more unusual, the numerous manifestations of Tough cameras up to the past TG-5 have won various honors and acknowledgment for the vigorous form quality and unwavering quality. Being waterproof, dustproof, shockproof and freezeproof, tried over and over the Tough cameras dependably endure, and have earned Olympus a solid notoriety in this specific item portion. Truth be told, Olympus throughout the years has chopped out the various varieties of minimized simple to use cameras except for the TG-arrangement, the staying Tough product offering which keeps on being a confirmation for what Olympus is equipped for accomplishing by and large in their imaging items. The two most grounded highlights found on the leader Olympus OM-D framework are climate fixing and prevalent optics, both I am glad to report are available in this new Olympus TG-6.
Maybe the greatest inquiry is - for what reason do I significantly mess with a minimized camera with a little measured picture sensor, particularly me being a city-shielded kid who does not wander out much on outrageous exercises where the Tough camera flourishes? My answer is basic - I have recommended to numerous companions and blog perusers to have a Tough camera helpful as a reinforcement.
The Tough camera is little, it doesn't take much space in your camera pack, should anything happen to your fundamental cameras, in the harshest condition the Tough camera will no doubt endure. There is no doubt that this TG-6 (or some other past cycles of TG cameras) is assembled like a tank. Out of the blue, I am lifting this up and truly giving it a more intensive hope to decide whether the TG-6 is adequately competent as a back up imaging device?
How about we get the key determinations of Olympus TG-6 off the beaten path:
12MP goals on 1/2.33 inch BSI CMOS Image Sensor
Truepic 8 Engine - like Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II and E-M1X
Extreme Features - Waterproof (down to 15m), Droproof, Dustproof and Freezeproof (down to less 10 degrees Celsius)
Olympus focal point 25-100mm F2.0-4.9, with implicit Image Stabilization
Focal point plan - 9 components in 7 gatherings
Very Macro AF - 1cm least centering separation, presently accessible in P and A shooting modes (in TG-5 just accessible in Microscope mode)
Worked in field detecting and following highlights - GPS, Thermometer, Manometer, Compass and Acceleration sensors
Improved LCD-Screen with 1.04 Million Dots (over TG-5 with 460k Dots)
Clearly I was unfit to test each and every component recorded above, and I will simply hop directly into the most pleasant piece of this article - shooting with the Olympus TG-6!
Realizing that the TG-6 can go unimaginable near the subjects I explicitly did creepy crawly full scale with the camera first. I additionally brought it out for some road shooting rounds, both in the day just as night time.
For the creepy crawly full scale shooting, I utilized A mode (Aperture Priority) and physically select the F-number, ordinarily not the most stretched out to get somewhat more profundity of field. I likewise actuated the in camera streak. I controlled the glimmer control physically. ISO was fixed at 100 (least) for ideal picture quality.
I at last discovered something I have been searching for a long, long time - an Ant Mimic Spider going after the Ant it was imitating. I have shot Ant Mimic creepy crawlies commonly, and have seen them together with different ants, however never caught one eating the insect.
This was my first shot (I realize this isn't a phenomenal picture, however to me it was my first, so it was exceptional), and I figured out how to shoot it with the Olympus TG-6! The lighting was not perfect since it was from a brutal direct in camera streak, however to be completely forthright, regardless of details, realizing that it was a reduced camera that delivered this, with negligible exertion, the general outcome was still very noteworthy.
I am not expecting the dimension of subtleties I get from utilizing an OM-D camera and Olympus M.Zuiko 60mm F2.8 full scale focal point, that would be an uncalled for examination. I have even redone my remote glimmer procedure to accomplish preferred lighting over this. In any case, for a streamlined simple to use exertion, I think the TG-6 performed outstandingly. Pictures told the truth out, hues were punchy and reasonable and there was adequate chomp in the sharpness. Truth to be told, that one little focal point on the TG-6 is one hell of an extraordinary focal point!
I clearly did not go as close as 1cm for every one of my shots, I didn't need to, and the creepy crawlies I was shooting were not unreasonably small that I expected to go excessively close. For most shots, the creepy crawlies were around 3-10cm far from the focal point, with a greater part of them being nearer thsn 5cm. What's more, I have zoomed in the focal point to the farthest end 100mm comparable for all the creepy crawly shots.
Concentrating on the bugs at such close up separation was out of the blue quick and responsive. I had no issues securing concentrate even substantial shade condition where numerous bugs and bugs were covering up in. I moved the centering territory around to ensure that I accomplish basic exactness on the precise zone I needed. The centering was adequately solid to take care of business.
My greatest gripe of the camera up until this point? No capacity to control the shade speed. I simply feel that having Aperture Priority and Program presentation modes are valuable in reality, however why exclude Shutter Priority or far and away superior, full manual shooting mode? To state that the clients whom the TG-6 is focused for are not genuine picture takers and may not want to utilize the propelled shooting highlights is an inadmissible reason. There are many propelled includes in camera - Pro Capture Mode, center stacking and the way that the camera permits RAW picture shooting demonstrate that this camera is setting up the clients for the following propelled level in photography. Not having the choice to control screen speed is a bit of constraining.
I wish I could do some moderate screen speed movement obscure shots of the water, or people on foot strolling in the city. Most likely there are workarounds to compel the camera to accomplish moderate screen speed, yet a committed control would have been a superior alternative.
Utilizing the Olympus TG-6 in the city was a significant fascinating knowledge. I have constantly wanted to work with littler cameras doing road photography so individuals don't quickly feel undermined at the nearness of a colossal secret elements pushed before their appearances. In any case, the splendid red shade of the TG-6 loaner I had did not help me being stealthy by any means, as the strong red shouted consideration. Having said that, there is a dark TG-6 variation, which I ought to have by and by mentioned for my very own shooting rather than the red.
The focal point, for non-large scale shooting, performed well in all circumstances. The focal point handles wide edge great, with no contortion observable, and this could very well additionally halfway due to in-camera programming adjustment kicking in hard. I noticed a few hints of Chromatic Aberration, however that would be me scratch picking, as the purple bordering in brilliant complexity regions can without much of a stretch be disposed of in post-handling. Sharpness was predictable all through the central range right to the longest fax zoom. I tried the focal points in different lighting condition, shooting subjects close and far, and they all rendered perfectly.
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