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Getting the best from Olympus TG2

Started Apr 26, 2013 | Questions thread
Jefftan Veteran Member • Posts: 3,501
Re: Getting the best from Olympus TG2

My experience is same as you.  I don't have all the answers but some suggestions

1. If you believe you have steady hands set ISO to 400 in not too dark shooting situation like indoor lighting.  IQ degrade a lot after ISO 400

2. The biggest problem of TG-2 is missed focus when there are lots of little light in a dark scene (such as street light).  The solution to this is to point the camera at other point, acquire focus with half press shutter than move the camera back to original street light scene and press fully down to shoot

But there are many times the camera just miss focus in low light for no obvious reason.  This is a big problem and happen very often in night time.  The green box confirm focus but image come out blur.

Right now my only solution is to use "spot" focus (central focus) which seem to help a bit but still lots of missed focus images.  I wish someone can offer other solutions.

Besides this problem this is a great camera in good lighting.  Some of my ISO 100 image can be confused with image I take with my NEX-5N

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