Costly affair for action junkies with little demand on image quality

As currently probably the only outdoor camera with folding screen offers the TG-850 the action junkie, even under the most adverse conditions on land, at sea and in the air to shoot a Selfie and thus to share the experienced adventure in the foreground with the undemanding Internet community.

Or so allows the TG-850 in a couple of words to summarize and to the folding screen, the Olympus has actually nothing that they would, for example, favorably separating it from a Nikon Coolpix AW120.

The image results of TG-850 are responsible for the Otto-Normal-consumer and with much benevolence just minimum standard, who usually then thinks about the automatic mode addition and perhaps hold not only action-packed memories somehow, but also print-like results can be achieved wants, the needs at the Olympus already often times supply both eyes (and the Delete button) press.

From 16 megapixels on a 1 / 2.3 CMOS sensor can be expected innately no miracles, but that already from ISO 400 noise onset significantly limited then very quickly the fun and the possibilities of the camera. 6400 ISO are then also more of a marketing gimmick by the manufacturer, because even 800 ISO overwhelm the camera, ISO 1600 and more then deliver nothing really more handsome. Sorry, Olympus, whether outdoor or not, the image quality of the TG-850 is simply beyond the pale and at the level of low-snapping in the 2-digit euro range.

Olympus has promised much with the TG-850, but if you want to make really good shots in the water, which engages better still to a compact camera and a separate underwater housing. The disadvantage of larger size and greater weight is because very quickly relativized by much better picture quality.

Too bad the producers to bring all the possibilities and also the know-how something "Ordinary" to the man, but apparently is (short-term) profit maximization at the expense of (inexperienced) customers become more important than the focus on the essentials - a camera for I still the image result.

And so the TG-850 stays with us an exceptional phenomenon, a camera that is only taken in exceptional cases, from the cabinet when eg going to the water, the kids want carefree when Hertoben hold a few reminders and in which it is not in focus or claim arrives. Nearly 300, - are then but this "pleasure" but quite steep.