Re: TG-6 cosistenly overexposus
Digging around, in other sources, for comments about the overexposure issue with the TG-6, this seems to be a problem with more than the TG-6. Why this is so with any one camera escapes me. Pull out the camera, stuff a battery and chip in it, power up, pull the trigger and a bleached out image shouldn't be result.
Getting the basis for a really satisfying image doesn't come without some effort behind the viewfinder. Even then, assuming no further bit fiddling is needed after pushing the button is ... um... wishful thinking.
But open box, point, shoot, oooohhh and ahhhh isn't unreasonable to expect.
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So. "They all do it" isn't so far from wrong.
Regarding the miserable RAW image of fabric, it remains miserable. But...
I ran it through DxO's PureRAW, which has generally given good results with my RAW exposures. It made an appallingly bad hash of the sample from the TG-6. The problem isn't the TG-6's, it's PureRAW's fault (guess what forum will shortly see a vein bulger from me). Other RAW files, including re-shooting the original exposure, are not too bad. Hardly mind-numbingly great art, but, for intended purpose, acceptable.
The one loose end, and I don't think there's a fix for the problem, is needing to tweak the EV as conditions change. If I were using the camera, meh... ain't no thing. For Chris, it's a thing. Guess I've some training and convincing to do.
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I'm mildly amused to see "microscope mode" present in a point&shoot. Macro support is OK, I guess, but, again, not my idea of a point and shoot activity. I could be talked into thinking these modes are included as much for bragging rights as anything. If I needed/wanted to photograph teeny, tiny details, it sure wouldn't be with a TG-6 or similar.
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At this point, given the chance the camera could accidentally go for a swim, or auger in from 5' up, and US Southwest is dusty as all get-out, I guess I'll stay with TG-6 after all. But it sure isn't what I expected to find when I opened the box. And, this time, I ain't sayin' it like it's a good thang.
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