I’m in the market for a compact, but durable camera to complement my dumbphone, but also be a potential gateway to 1080p amateur photography, mostly nature and street photography. I’ve narrowed my search to either the Olympus Tough TG-3 or TG-4, but I can’t decide which one to get.
They have mostly identical specs, but have a few minor differences:
-TG-3 has manual exposure and TG-4 doesn’t.
-TG-4 has manual focus and a live composite mode, as well as access to RAW format, with a slightly better battery.
Based on that, what does the community think might be the better option?
I couldn’t find a hint for setting the shutter speed to a specific value. But you could use the Aperture-Mode to set your aperture, then set the ISO to a fixed value and then use exposure compensation to set the shutter speed? As a workaround.
But I wouldn’t care that much about it, 90 % of the time you would be in Aperture-Mode. Those few times you would use Manual or S-Mode for some experiments are negligible, shooting in RAW would be much more important to me.
I think the random review site I looked at had some wrong data, a different one comfirms there’s no manual exposure. If OP could get your hands on one to try before buying, that’d be ideal, but might be unlikely to find in a local shop considering the age of these models.
I definitely agree, RAW seems like the most useful upgrade out of the things listed (with full manual focus being a bonus)