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TG-6 cosistenly overexposus

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

Very impressive! However, the key point of this issue is:

"It's not my camera, it's my wife's, and she has 0.00% percent [interest] in tweaking with knobs, menus, or asking me to do the tweaking. She wants point&shoot."

Why a TG-6 at all? The previous camera, Nikon AW130, was a hurry-up purchase to replace a Canon P&S that was very not waterproof, as a brief dunk in a Bahamian stream proved.

The problem with the Nikon, which she likes, probably comes from outgassing from plastic bits in the camera. That's coated some of the optics. Not Good - think lens smeared with fingerprints, only inside the camera body.

The TG-6 was selected, in great measure, based on DPR's review, with the ability to shoot RAW a big deal for me. I'm the one who'll get asked to print something from what my wife pointed to and shot. From JPEG and needing cropping? Hello, RAW!

So that's "why a TG-6".

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As to settings used, the factory defaults except: enabling RAW, trying spot metering. I shot with P mode, but tried Auto and Scene. All three simply overexpose. In P mode, changing the EV "cures" overexposure, and restores saturation. See above re: knob twiddling.

Bottom line: out of the box, with 0.0 EV, scenes are consistently overexposed. That displeases the camera's owner. End of camera, end of story.

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