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TG-6 cosistenly overexposus

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

Enders Shadow wrote:

RBEmerson wrote:

I bought a TG-6 to replace a Nikon AW300 - point&shoot. The TG-6 is consistently over-exposing. I have it spot metering and still no help. I stopped down, which obviously improves things. If it were my camera, I'd tweak the compensation to taste.

In most cases, spot metering should be avoided if the user is inexperienced. I dont understand your "stopped down" comment. There's no manual mode. Using aperture priority mode only means that shutter speed and ISO are controlled by the camera. It doesn't change metering of the system. If it's inaccurate, it will remain inaccurate.

Small sensor cameras tend to push the exposure in order to maximize dynamic range. The TG-6 definitely falls into that category

You have a lot of complaints about the camera but haven't posted a single example. You would receive more informed responses if we can see what you're talking about.

Spot metering was tried as "well, the default meter doesn't work, try spot metering in case it clears up the problem". It didn't.

In P mode, go to -0.5 EV (give or take) and the problem of overexposure ends. Fine, I tend to leave -0.3 EV in my RX-10. But... and this the part that matters, my wife doesn't want to mess around with any knobs, She wants point&shoot at its purest. See my other recent post about "why a TG-6 at all".

Actually, "lots of complaints" isn't quite right. I've got one complaint, and that's overexposure. It's hard to miss when more than parts of highlights bleach out, and saturation is missing in action. The histogram in the camera, and in PhotoLab 4, are pushed to the right, and there's a spike at and near 255.

We did a side-by-side this morning. The Nikon(*) image was well exposed with no user intervention. The TG-6 was bleached out with no user intervention.

Anyway, at this point, the matter's moot. Chris said send it back. Back it goes.

(*) I mistakenly wrote "AW300" - the correct model is "AW130". My error.

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