OM SYSTEM Olympus TG-6 Red Underwater Camera, Waterproof, Freeze Proof, High Resolution Bright, 4K Video 44x Macro Shooting

For a compact camera I was hoping for good photos, but wasn’t expecting great quality. I was very surprised! This camera is great! It can be a simple point-and-shoot camera, but with some practice, and taking the time to use the various settings, this camera gives excellent results. While kayaking on a river, I wanted to test the underwater feature. I just adjusted the setting, stuck the camera onto the water, and snapped 3 photos. When I saw the results, I was so surprised at the color correction and the high clarity. Every pebble and piece of moss was crystal clear. The water was about 15’ deep. For photo transfer I use the Olympus app. Uploading photos to my iPhone X are a snap. When comparing photos between the TG-6 and my iPhone, the TG-6 is the winner, hands down. I’ve been in photography for 40 years, and have used 35mm, 120mm, and 4x5 film cameras. This little camera wouldn’t beat my old 4x5, but comes close to the other cameras I’ve used. I can’t wait to go snorkeling and really test out the underwater features. I highly recommend getting the lens cap to save the lens from scratches. Always there and easy to use. For a high quality handy travel camera that really delivers, I highly recommend the TG-6. Being a good water proof camera is a huge plus.

This is such a versatile camera. I use it underwater mostly but it is great for topside photography also. I actually had my housing flood at 60 feet, but because the camera is allegedly waterproof to 50 feet, the camera was not damaged. Having said that, even though the camera is advertised as waterproof to 50 feet, I would not trust taking it underwater without the housing. I believe the water pressure without the housing might, indeed, cause a leak in the camera itself. I'm not willing to take that chance. But I feel comfortable that any time my housing floods, my camera is still safe. I have gotten some great images with this little camera and would highly recommend it for novices and experienced photographers alike.

Great camera for a fair price. Pictures are very good, much better than other waterproof cameras I tried. Still, I guess I'm a bit spoiled by my old Canon DSLR. Tons of features most of which I won't use. Stacking and bracketing seem to work well. A couple of minor complaints. First, the battery life isn't great but that's no secret. I bought an extra battery and charger to cope. Second, the lens ring that the camera comes with is purely cosmetic and will not take a lens cap. So, for an additional purchase I got the lens ring adapter which comes with a lens cap. The extra purchases add up and it would be nice if Olympus made the extra battery, charger, and lens ring/cap part of the package at the current price. And finally, and what concerns me the most, is that the zoom lens function is noisy, clearly audible to this old man. The real problem however is that the noise is picked up by the microphone while taking video and produces a disagreeable hum in the background of resulting videos. I'm going to try to contact Olympus to ask if the zoom is normally that noisy or if my unit is defective. We'll see how that works out. Olympus did accept the camera for warranty work on the noisy zoom feature. Hopefully it works properly when I get it back. I got the camera back from Olympus warranty service recently and they told me that it is working fine and that the noise from the zoom lens is normal. So, they have designed a $500 camera that has a zoom lens that is so noisy it is overheard when making a video with the camera. They even had the nerve to suggest using an external mic for recordings.

Here's a couple of photos I took on the first day without changing any settings. One is normal, one is with an added filter from an app. This is much better than the phone I've been using. I have a Goppro 8 black and this Tg-6 is better in every regard except it's not quite as good with antishake and the focus makes a little whiring noise thats audible in playback. The video is much better than some footage I've seen on youtube, so it's going to depend a lot on the settings, the camera person and the postprocessing. I bought this for photos. As far as picture quality, it seems to be as good or better than most phones, right out of the box. I feel like it keeps up with most cameras of higher cost and is superior to anything else at this price point. I'm very new to photography, but was getting some good night shots so far. It's actually better than I thought it would be with those indoors shots under incandescent, fluorescent and LED lighting. I'll be using it for landscapes, nature and taking photos in cities and towns. The photo quality is excellent in my opinion and it works great without being to imposing or cluttered. It turns on in maybe two seconds, so I can stop the bike, be sure of a great picture and be moving again, making great time. Some days I get rained on really good and this camera is a perfect addition to my contingency gear. It should also do well in the colder conditions. It feels durable and I'm sure it will do well if I drop it or if it gets crushed around in my baggage on a tough day. I did buy the jj brand lens cap and a glass screen protector to keep from scratching those parts, but thats just extra and not totally necessary. I also picked up the led diffuser accessory for macro photography. Results on a $20 bill are pictured, here. Works perfectly...well worth the extra 35.00 or so, considering the possibilities it unlocks. I'll probably pick up the flash dispersing accessory also, after seeing this work as well as it does. All these things considered, and with hands on, out of the box use, I'll be confident to invest my hard earned dollars in the teleconverter, wide angle and fisheye lenses and maybe even down the line, the deep water case if the opportunity to go diving presents itself. The camera works great with or without them. The firmware on the camera takes a day to learn, with all the little extras embedded in there, but after that navigation is relatively easy. Even though it is I think classified a "point and shoot" everything is customizable- and even more so, once you know a couple of tricks that are mentioned online in various places. Most anybody however, can simply pick this up, click it on auto mode and get great pictures without confusion. The app (I got for my android) was very easy to connect with. The camera puts out the wifi signal and the phone connects to that, so it can be done without an actual internet connection. Photos import within a few seconds each and can be edited in any other app from there. I take a 4:3 ratio pictures and after importing, crop it to whatever size from there. I'd love to speak on GPS and the Windows Olympus software, but have not gotten that far just yet. From what I've seen, and if you don't know yet, this goes pretty deep with what information you can attach to the photos and video. Pretty sure that if I decided to go that route, I'd be able to automatically have photos all on a map of where they were captured. Geotagging is still a subject of contention these days, though. But it's there if needed along with barometric pressure (manometer), compass and altitude (altimeter?). Can also add a little audio voice note to individual photos as well. It's possible to convert the proprietary file format of the RAW photos to be able to edit on other software if necessary. Only thing left is maybe some filters and a lens hood for extra usefulness, a floating wrist strap for beach and stream excursions, and a respectable case and bag. Those are all extras but now that I know I will be enjoying this camera for many years to come I'm sure it's worth it.

Buen producto, 100% recomendado. Sirve muy bien y es de calidad

Takes good pics once you can navigate the extensive menus.

Tem recursos de sobra para ótimas fotografias e é muito resistente; Perfeita para quem trabalha em campo.

Acheté l(an dernier pour photos sous-marines. M'en suis resservi cette année sans aucun problème . facile à utiliser, facile à ouvrir et bien étanche

This is my first TG-series camera. I am coming from a DSLR, which doesn't play nice with my kayak on a number of levels. I bought this camera as a go-anywhere-do-anything camera, and to my surprise this is exactly what it is. It gives me some of the features of my DSLR, which is nice, but I kept running into the limits of the hardware. Still, most of the time I was able to get what I want. I was able to get some nice bokeh, though I wouldn't want to use this for portraits. Maybe with the teleconverter it would become a passable portrait camera, I don't know. I used it for landscapes, lots of landscapes, and it worked pretty well for that. I see some color bleeding and some vignette, but I wouldn't call those problematic. The lens is the equivalent of a standard zoom, so no bird-watching with this thing, and I doubt the teleconverter can do a whole lot to change that. I had a chance to play with the fisheye adapter for about an hour and it gave me just a slightly wider angle overall, but nothing I would call a must-have. This camera is amazing for macro photography, though: my few attempts at it all turned out stunning. Hardware is pretty sturdy, though the screen at the back scratches easily. GET A PROTECTOR! I am not particularly worried about the lack of an EVF as I wear glasses, though I seem to be alone to not consider this a problem. The screen is somewhat hard to see in bright sunlight, but I am able to manage. The camera survived salt water, sand, being tossed unprotected in my luggage, even being in my PFD while I kayak and perform stunts. I am quite pleased! It's the right tool for the job and it worked pretty well! The camera is small, the controls are sometimes hard to operate with gloves, but I don't see how a compact camera can possibly solve that issue: I guess Olympus can add a touchscreen, but touchscreens don't work well when water is involved. Now for the software. Argh the software! The Olympus RAW format is ORF and is mostly unsupported by anything. There is a plugin for Photoshop (not sure if Lightroom supports it, but I hear no), and that's about it. I got a once-in-a-lifetime offer to get the Adobe software for regular price, and that's the extent of the support I got from Olympus. What if I don't want to use Adobe stuff? There is no indication anywhere in the documentation how exactly I am supposed to integrate Olympus RAW with any photo processing workflow, including Adobe's which they promote so aggressively. Eventually I stumbled upon something called Olympus Workspace, which appears to do something close to what Lightroom does, but I ultimately settled on a third-party tool called Luminar. Luminar worked pretty well. I wish I had more choices! It's a shame a camera so well regarded and so respected (the TG-5 is practically the gold standard for camera for water sports) doesn't do more to be supported by photo-processing software out there. The battery life is on par with my DSLR! I can get several hundred pictures on a single battery charge! I also love the in-camera modes for panorama, HDR and focus-stacking. Neither of them are perfect, of course: the panorama mode is trying to stitch shots by tracking landmarks in your frame, but when it cannot find one right at the edge of the frame (e.g. it encounters the empty horizon), it gets hopelessly lost. Similarly, focus-stacking would sometimes fail for reasons I have not investigated yet. I hope this is helping someone.