A solid first foray into the action cam market.
The TG-Tracker is Olympus’s first venture into the action camera market, and its camcorder-like design stands in stark contrast to the box designs of its rivals. It certainly stands out visually, and follows the company’s Tough compact camera range in styling.
At 3.5x5.7x9.3cm it’s relatively small, but its 180g weight makes it a little heavier than the GoPro Hero4 Black. This extra weight can cause a bit of wobble when it’s mounted on a bike’s handlebar. Helpfully, the built-in image stabiliser can be enabled in the menu system, and does a good job of reducing, although not totally eliminating, vibrations.
The TG-Tracker has a small LED lamp to illuminate night-time filming, something we haven’t seen on an action cam before. It’s also waterproof out of the box to 30m, and can operate in temperatures down to -10°C, survive being dropped from up to 2.1m, and is crushproof up to 100kg – so you don’t have to worry about accidentally sitting on it.
The small camera packs built-in Wi-Fi, GPS, motion sensors and 4K video capability. It looks like Olympus is serious about making an impact in a market that has recently seen a slowdown in innovation. Aside from the GPS, other sensors include a compass, barometer, thermometer, and an accelerometer – these make it a serious rival to the Garmin Virb XE and TomTom Bandit.
This story is from the October 2016 edition of MacFormat UK.
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