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TG-6 review: Shoot and enjoy

Started May 29, 2020 | User reviews thread
Mittskitts Contributing Member • Posts: 897
Re: TG-6 review: Shoot and enjoy
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Orion, Taurus, Mars and the Pleiades (left to right)

I have had several Olympus Tough cameras over the past 12 years, and they are great for travel, museums with “no flash” rules, golf, carrying in my purse for whatever photo ops I find, etc., but the image quality was not up to my OM-D. I subjectively think the routine image quality of my TG-3 with the 16 MP sensor is slightly better than my TG-6 with the 12 MP sensor. Recently, I discovered that I can do casual astrophotography quite easily with the TG-6 on a tripod with the Live Composite scene setting. Now, we are not talking about zooms of Saturn’s rings, but wide angle views of constellations and the sky. I live in a light polluted area and star gazing is very limited. The TG-6 lets me see everything on my star charts including the faint star clusters! I wondered how I would be able to focus on the stars, but it seems to take care of that automatically. Now I am even more enthusiastic about the TG-6 and having a lot of fun with it after dark. Who knew?

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Olympus Tough TG-1 iHS Olympus SH-50 Olympus Tough TG-3 Olympus TG-6 Nikon Coolpix P950 +12 more
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