Re: TG-6 cosistenly overexposus
smithaa02 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.
It's not my camera, it's my wife's and she has 0.00% percent in tweaking with knobs, menus, or asking me to do the tweaking. She wants point&shoot.
Barring a resolution, this puppy may be on its way back to B&H.
(Yes, I printed up the full PDF manual, Yes, I know how to get IMHO at least very good exposures - see .sig for details. <---humor, mostly)
The TG-6 has many settings for a camera in its class. I'm curious to know what settings you had and if this negatively impacted the image. If you can post original jpgs with exif data, we can check this.
I've taken countless images with the TG-6 (many when kayaking). By default in sunny conditions, yes...the TG-6 over-exposes. But a simple fix is to step down the exposure.
Can you do this in auto? No...auto is evil. Can you do this in AP? Not easily...because then the TG-6 assigns the top dial to aperture instead of exposure...and you have to change exposure in the "quick" menu which isn't quick.
The proper solution is to use P (program) (or C1/C2). A good option to use a settings recipe that works for you. The following is my TG-6 settings recipe for my OOC Jpgs:
- Use 1 second delay for crisp images
- i-enhance > low for blue skies
- Turn off "keep colors warm"
- In some situations I will use custom WB (the TG6 errors on the warm side)
- I like to slightly under-expose to maintain saturation. TG-6 under-exposed OOC jpgs respond very well to exposure compensation (eg Gimp/Photoshop)
- Turn noise reduction to low...normal destroys tree leaves
- I wouldn't worry about aperture control, as in my experience manual temperature settings don't help that much.
- Turn the levels on for nicely aligned images
- Gradation normal (aka off)
- 4:3 aspect ratio to prevent cropping
My best hypothesis is you may be disabling the built in light filter by when using aperture priority (a common mistake). The backlit sensor on the TG-6 is very sensitive and in bright conditions, it really needs to apply these "sunglasses" to protect images from being blown out. This really isn't an aperture change, so it confusing that Olympus put such a setting there. Normally when shooting program in sunny conditions, this isn't a problem...as Olympus almost always (from my experience) applies this filter for sunny outdoor scenes.
Overall I'm happy with the TG-6. It's not a perfect camera but serves a good niche and with the right settings produces good images. For macro I would argue it can compete with and surpass some of the big boys for results.
The following are some sample TG-6 images I've taken:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/162931725@N08/sets/72157709545430657/?layout=justified
https://www.flickr.com/photos/162931725@N08/sets/72157710712252142/?layout=justified
Please can you explain the part about the "light filter" ~ what light filter 'setting' are you talking about???
There is no such setting mentioned in the manual....only Noise Filter is mentioned!
TIA