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TG-6 cosistenly overexposus

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

Point well taken on the cost.   I agree.     At the time (some ten+ years ago) I was not aware of any alternatives.    I thought then that the Hoodman was too expensive. IIRC it was $80 when I bought it, and I did not think it was worth over $60.

My bride was there to see all the problems I was having with the LCD screen in bright daylight.    With her strong element of common sense, she told me, in quite blunt terms, that I was letting $20 stop me.     As usual she was right.    I ordered it and have never looked back.

A little later I got started in Sony E-mount APS-C.    My first E-mount body, which I still use, also had only a screen.    This one tilts, so most of the time I am fine holding at waist level. But there are some occasions where eye level viewing is best.    So I bought another Hoodman Loupe to keep with the Sony.     Despite the disagreeable cost it really is that useful - for me.

Good luck in your endeavors, having been there myself.     I carry all my compact 'tough' and travel zoom cameras in Pelican Micro Cases, so I can't have anything attached to the exterior of the camera.    I rigged my own elastic loupe attachment system that works for me, and since I have been working with it so many years I am very efficient at getting the loupe attached when I get the camera out.

I too will probably not be buying any more cameras without viewfinders.    For one thing, I have more than enough cameras to last.    The other is that I don't know if there are even any such cameras still in production outside of the 'tough' genre.     But if some brilliant engineering team in Tokyo were to develop a camera I just had to have, and it did not have a viewfinder, I would go for it knowing I could attach a Hoodman.

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