Olympus Tough TG-7 Digital Camera (Black)

Great Everyday Carry Camera
I bought this nice little camera for everyday carry. I have high end DSLR and mirrorless cameras along with pro lenses from Nikon and Olympus, so I’m not expecting this little guy to beat those other cameras out in image quality.
This is a small, rugged, and waterproof camera that can be put in a pocket and exposed to harsh environments. It takes pretty good pictures and video. I partially LOVE the macro modes. I bought the guide light and silicone jacket accessories for it. With focus stacking and the guide light this little guy is very fun to explore the smaller things all around us. Put it in one of the scene modes or leave it in full auto to take photos of events, landscapes, people, etc.
Again, it won’t beat out its big brothers, but is excellent for everyday carry. As the old saying goes: the best camera is the one you have with you.
Some would argue that a cellphone fits this space better. I disagree. This thing is cheaper than the high end cellphones, is more durable (both shock and waterproof), it has advanced computational photography features, and it has a whole ecosystem of accessories. I like the GPS features to include compass, altitude, and temperature. You can geo tag your photos and videos. You can also shoot in RAW format and import your pictures to your favorite photo editor. The free OM Workspace works just fine.
Finally, the camera connects easily to the free OI.Share app on your phone so you can send your photos there to share with others.
I love this little camera.

About as good as a point-and-shoot format can get
I’ve been a big fan of Olympus for quite some time, and I have quite a bit of micro 4/3ds stuff from the Pen series cameras. I needed a tough camera for work, as I’m often in wet and nasty locations taking photos for insurance claims.
After dropping my Pen E-P5 lens down into a puddle of sewage on the concrete, destroying about $1,000 worth of glass, I realized that I cannot afford to keep using my good camera for dirty work. This one fits the bill. Not only is it designed to be drop resistant, waterproof and tough, but it has most of the control features I like about my mirrorless camera, in a point-and-shoot body. The camera has a fairly wide angle lens, and even better still, can accept adapters to give me even more flexibility. I added a screen protector, silicone cover and an aftermarket .45x wide-angle adapter, and the whole package cost me less than the lens I broke in the first place.
The camera has built in GPS, which is nice to have when photographing scenes that may later be introduced in court as evidence, it produces good-quality video, and has a pretty decent zoom range, and great macro focus capabilities right out of the box.
Add the fact you can go swimming with it and take photos underwater without an external case, and I’m pretty much set.
It has remote software you can install on your phone or tablet, and you can download the images wirelessly, use the camera in live view mode and control the zoom from your phone.
There’s some downsides to it, as it doesn’t integrate well with my estimating software, so I can’t take photos and import them directly, which slows the workflow some, but the quality of the photos is outstanding and it’s worth the extra bit of work.
The software that goes with this has another big drawback, in that it only lets you register one camera at a time with the software – so if you own multiple Olympus products, you have to ‘deregister’ one with the software to use the other, and that requires setting up the wifi and Bluetooth connections all over again.
The full manual isn’t included with the package, and it took an email to customer service to get a copy I could download, as it doesn’t even appear for this model on the Olympus website.
I think Olympus has a fantastic product, and they continue to improve it, but once they release it, they seem to neglect all the other things that make the product really useable for their customers. All in all, though, I’ll stick with the brand, and hope they do better on the rest.

Very disappointed
There’s not a lot of pocket cameras on the market right now. I liked that it was waterproof and more importantly shockproof so I gave it a try. It seems to have a tremendous amount of features, but unfortunately the included instruction manual doesn’t talk about any of those features. It’s a 300-page manual with 10 pages in English that talks about how to place the battery and put on the hand strap. It does not talk about how to take pictures, use the scene mode, use GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or anything else. There’s a little switch on the top of the camera that says off and log – But I have no idea what that is. Something else that’s very disappointing is the optical zoom. When you zoom in all the way it’s at the same distance as your normal eye. So really there is no zoom. I also don’t like that there’s no lens cover. I’m going to have to buy something from another vendor for about $15. Also if you’re recording a video and you use the zoom you can hear the zoom sounds on the video afterwards. I had another camera that did not do this, so I know this can be better.

Parfaite petite camera pour toujour avoir avec soi en camping, randonneée ou en canot excellent pour la macro
En replacement de note TG-1 originale qu’on a adoré

 The camera it is pretty good!
However the zoom slider got stuck after 2 uses….
I guess price vs what it is… will not recommend it…