Greetings,
I am having issues with shooting video with the TG-6, so I am looking for advice.
My full-size Nikon dSLR flooded last year, and so I decided to move to compact video. Based on the rave review at Backscatter, I went with their TG-6 video package. Over the New Year I took the camera to Palau for its maiden voyage. I use the camera settings recommended by Backscatter.
For a beginner's camera, it seems to work fairly well. The main problems that I am having relate to the battery life, autofocus, and color.
The battery life on the TG-6 is ambysmal. During 1 in 5 dives, the battery died before the end of the dive. I manually turn off the camera after each shot, but still the battery didn't last very long. I bought four batteries and swapped out a new battery after each dive. Is this a common problem?
The autofocus is unreliable, and it constantly goes in and out of focus. How do you handle this?
The manual white balance seems to work very well, but I am getting very purple pictures in natural light when I am deeper than 50 feet. Anyway to fix this? I tried some color correction in the video editor Pinnacle 26, but the corrective effects are minimal. I use a large WhiBal card for manual white balance, and I try to set a new white balance with every shot.
Below is a short composite video that I put together from my trip to Palau. I am wondering if this quality of video is typical for TG-6 users, or if I can do better. And if so, how? Thanks in advance.
I am having issues with shooting video with the TG-6, so I am looking for advice.
My full-size Nikon dSLR flooded last year, and so I decided to move to compact video. Based on the rave review at Backscatter, I went with their TG-6 video package. Over the New Year I took the camera to Palau for its maiden voyage. I use the camera settings recommended by Backscatter.
For a beginner's camera, it seems to work fairly well. The main problems that I am having relate to the battery life, autofocus, and color.
The battery life on the TG-6 is ambysmal. During 1 in 5 dives, the battery died before the end of the dive. I manually turn off the camera after each shot, but still the battery didn't last very long. I bought four batteries and swapped out a new battery after each dive. Is this a common problem?
The autofocus is unreliable, and it constantly goes in and out of focus. How do you handle this?
The manual white balance seems to work very well, but I am getting very purple pictures in natural light when I am deeper than 50 feet. Anyway to fix this? I tried some color correction in the video editor Pinnacle 26, but the corrective effects are minimal. I use a large WhiBal card for manual white balance, and I try to set a new white balance with every shot.
Below is a short composite video that I put together from my trip to Palau. I am wondering if this quality of video is typical for TG-6 users, or if I can do better. And if so, how? Thanks in advance.