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TG-6 cosistenly overexposus

Started Jul 3, 2021 | Discussions thread
RBEmerson
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Re: TG-6 cosistenly overexposus

Sure, dropping the EV by a half stop fixes the daytime problem in P mode. Doesn't do much for Scene mode (already "threatening" to use it). IMHO Scene mode is missing a syllable in front of it: "ob" as in obscene, but I'm just being elitist and snarky.

Strictly speaking, any camera in the bridge or point and shoot range should give good exposures out of the box, no fiddling needed.

Can I "rescue" any exposure with PhotoLab 4 (currently use it and like it - d***ed if I'll rent anything from Adobe). Again, this is stupid. My wife wants to point, shoot, show off what she got.

Run the exposure through PL4 and put back on the camera's chip. Ummm... maybe not.

So far, two respondents out of two report overexposure out the box. Absent missing some thing really obvious, this thing goes back. Which annoys me no end, because Nikon, et al. don't support RAW in any format at all. And RAW was part of the tipping point for TG-6

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Past all of that, I finally had a chance to shoot some fine-detailed fabric (looking for "show me resolution in the real world") and even at 100% (not "pixel peeking") I'm not impressed.

The initial exposures of some hydrangeas (bush with very colorful blossom clusters) are equally ...what else?... underwhelming. Tweaking in "post-production" rescued the color and contrast. Unsharp masking or other sharpening tools can help with the fuzz, but, again, point, shoot, repair in post, return to camera? I think not.

Understand I'm not someone who shoots with something mirrorless, using a lens inventory costing more than the GNP's of El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua combined. I use a Sony RX-10 IV bridge camera, hardly bleeding edge anything.

Overall, the TG-6 has nice features for someone like myself, but the zoom is limited, there's the exposure thing, so, generally point and shoot this thing is not.

I just talked myself into getting an RMA on Monday.

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