olympus tg-4 vs olympus xz-2

[fish80]

Hello, asking again an advice here... amazing forum.

So far I have been diving with a gopro but I would like to be able to also take decent still photos, as it takes me ages to properly edit a video. I am considering moving to a simple point and shoot camera which has also the ability to take good videos... and say goodbye to the gopro.

Made some research, the tg-4 seems amazing, and also allows to take pictures while taking a video, which I think it is great. I am almost sold but I saw the xz-2 which should have better sensor, but with housing is only about 700$, making the price similar.

So... tg-4 or xz-2 for a beginner photographer who likes to shoot videos too?

Thanks a million!

 

[anenomefishman]

i run an XZ-1 camera. the predessor to the XZ-2. it is a great small full manual camera with a big sensor. takes some nice pics. the most common olympus camera i see on dive trips is the TG-4. seen great pics from it as well.

example XZ-1 pic. just using the internal flash.

 

[fish80]

wow!! I am trying a tg4 at the moment but with the flash the results are terrible... not sure why

 

[anenomefishman]

wow!! I am trying a tg4 at the moment but with the flash the results are terrible... not sure why

check your settings. what are are they?

 

[fish80]

check your settings. what are are they?

mm just the standard underwater mode, it come automatically with the flash enabled but it just create a lot of backscatter in front of the subject. If i disable the flash it works much better

 

[anenomefishman]

mm just the standard underwater mode, it come automatically with the flash enabled but it just create a lot of backscatter in front of the subject. If i disable the flash it works much better

normally back-scatter means there is lots of stuff in the water. i have shot many thousands of UW pics. the galapagos was very bad this year. too much stuff in the water.

 

[fish80]

understood! Thanks

 

[wildbill9]

Have you tried playing with the angle/focus spot of the strobe? Don't aim it directly at the subject.

 

[fish80]

Have you tried playing with the angle/focus spot of the strobe? Don't aim it directly at the subject.

thank we were just talking about the internal flash..

 

[Laci83]

I have an xz-2 camera with 2 sea&sea strobes. And a wide ange lens. I noticed when the flash was on it made the images greeny and yellowy if I turned the flash off the custom wb did good pics. I know when the strobes was on something was wrong with the wb,but I tried several different settings but almost always more or less the pictures came out greeny and yellow with flash on. Anybody has a setting what I can try this year? Thanks