Olympus STYLUS Tough TG-4 Compact Camera 16MP 1/2.3" BSI CMOS 4608 x 3456pixels Black - Digital Cameras (16MP, 4608 x 3456 pixels, BSI CMOS, 4x, Full HD, Black)

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A series of photographs taken from the same position over a long period is joined together to create a short video. It’s the same arrangement on the Nikon COOLPIX AW130, except with a standard USB port on the camera, making it a little more flexible. This mode enables you to shoot in the appropriate settings by selecting a sub mode best suited to the subject or scene.

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At such close distances and at longer focal lengths you’ll encounter a problem that is familiar to macro photographers but isn’t often encountered on compacts – depth of field that’s so shallow only a tiny portion of your subject is in focus. smartphone main selling feature is now the camera, we can now shoot raw and have all manual control except aperture, why not also choose this marketing option to look better than the competition ? That may be enough to convince demanding photographers to consider it as a go-anywhere point-and-shoot. Why persist in cramming 16mp on a tiny sensor, when dozens of compacts stay with 12mp and get far superior IQ?

You can apply Art Filters, superimpose text, logos, even signatures written on your phone’s touchscreen, and play around with composite Photo Story arrangements. They also give the image sensor a better probability in identifying the right area of the scene to focus on in more automatic modes.

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A sensor-shift image stabilization system helps reduce the effects of camera shake, and seemed to be effective in the time we spent with the camera. The processing that this camera is puts on the jpeg photos is very over-done and leaves a blue hue to pixels in transitions from light to dark not observed with the Sony DSC. The AF is still a little jittery, but the TG4 copes better into the light at the beginning of this clip than in the previous one. This waxy quality has plagued other Olympus compacts, but with Raw capture, the TG-4 allows you to sidestep in-camera image processing. Had request support in Europe as well as in USA for this little cheap plastic part, no success for now.Its strength is that it offers a number of alternatives so if one doesn’t work you can try something else. From there, follow the on-screen instructions to establish a connection between your camera and mobile device. The zoom rocker is tucked between two plastic protrusions just to the left of the shutter release and I found it a bit fiddly. It can shoot continuously at full resolution at a speed of 5fps and the TG4 also has a couple of faster reduced resolution 3 Megapixel continuous modes in addition to an interval timer for creating time-lapse movies.

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There are faster modes available, which shoot at 15 and 60 fps, thoughthe resolution drops to 3 megapixel for both. this point and shoot does have aperture control so does stopping down the aperture 3 stops from max aperture also increases sharpness and contrast for this 1/2.The TG4 has four autofocus modes; Face iESP focuses on a face if there is one in the frame and if not defaults to 25-area AF. But for vacationers and shutterbugs in want of a pocket-friendly camera that will withstand what the world has to throw at it, the TG-4 is our Editors' Choice.

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We've selected a group of cameras that are easy to keep with you, and that can adapt to take photos wherever and whenever something memorable happens.With the exception of the time-lapse movie introduced on the TG3, these are essentially the same video modes as on the two-year-old TOUGH TG2. Olympus hasn't done much to tweak the design of its flagship TG series since the introduction of the TG-1 in 2012. Some people question the usefulness of RAW shooting on a compact because the small sensor size means lost highlight or shadow detail is often gone forever and you’re unlikely to retrieve it from any file, RAW or JPEG. We have owned this camera for about a week and have been very disappointed in the image quality in all but the macro mode. There are two high-speed capture modes—Hi1 (15fps) and Hi2 (50fps)—but resolution is limited to 3 megapixels when using them.