Olympus TG-6 & PT-059 review

Team Backscatter · Issue 109, Jul/Aug 2019 · pp. 40–44

Products mentioned: Olympus TG-6, Olympus PT-059, Olympus TG-5, Backscatter M52 Wide Angle Lens

We were able to get our hands on a prerelease Olympus TG-6 camera and Olympus PT-059 housing and spent a few dives with it in our home waters of Monterey. On paper, the Olympus TG-6 looks very similar to Olympus TG-5, with the same great image quality and similar specs. However, there are some major improvements to the menu options and operation that completely changes how to shoot the Olympus TG-6, making it a lot easier to use and get even better results. Everything you would want to do underwater can be done without ever having to rotate the mode dial. Read on for this key information you won’t find in any press release or topside camera review. Set To Aperture Priority And Forget The Rest With all of the new usability features of the Olympus TG-6, the camera can pretty much just live in Aperture Priority mode all the time. We can now focus as close as we could in microscope mode on t…