Olympus Tough TG-6 User Reviews

The TG-6 fills an unusual niche. It's a compact camera with a small sensor when most people looking for this kind of camera are happy to use their phones. It lacks shutter priority, which even modestly priced smartphones support. It can't match a DSLR for low light performance, and it's resolution of 12M pixels is nothing spectacular, yet in spite of this, having owned the camera for several months, I'd never want to be without it. What makes a camera that on the face of it seems pretty ...

I bought the Olympus TG-6 for a long sailing trip. The idea was to have a tough camera that can survive knocks and salty water. The TG-6 is marketed as an underwater camera but is very capable as a action, sailing, skiing or general tourist camera. It delivers stunning images with minimal effort. Before taking the TG-6 on trip and worked extensively through the settings to fully understand all the features because I knew there would not be any time on the boat to figure out the modes. I ...

I bought the Olympus TG6 because I was frustrated with the close-up capabilities of my Sony RX100 M3. The Sony has better image quality because of its larger sensor. The TG6 images look fine at screen resolution but not so good at 100% crop. Having said that, the TG6 is brilliant for macro. Taking shots of minute objects is ridiculously easy. What is equally important, the depth of field achieved using in-camera focus stacking amazes me. You can fill the screen with an object less than 5 mm ...