TG-5 + open source software

[Chris_D]

Here's a presentation about shooting with the Olympus TG-5 and editing with open source software packages darktable and Digikam.

The presentation was part of a face-off with another member of my dive club, who uses a more expensive ($50K) setup.

The video covers equipment, software, workflow, technique and philosophy, and may be helpful if you're thinking of moving from commercial software to open source.

 

[justinthedeeps]

Very nice, both the TG line and Darktable are super capable in good hands.

Exposure compensation should typically be at ~ -0.7 ...

The on-board 'white balance capture' feature is quite powerful for saving four different in situ white balanced modes, and you can use anything colorless/white/gray to do it quickly at multiple separate depths: fins, scuba tanks, etc. This often obviates the needs to do much white balance correction later, yielding wonderful preprocessed JPGs right off the camera.

The Olympus/OM System heavy autoprocessing for TG series JPGs is often so impressive, and the raw quality/definition/dynamic range of the TG line sufficiently limited, that I rarely edit the raw ORFs from TG. It can be tricky to 'beat' their JPGs via raw processing in Darktable.

But sometimes it does win, by a lot... particularly when the former two recommendations weren't sufficient. And good practice for ORFs off the higher-end cameras