Olympus SP-560 UZ Expert Reviews

The Olympus SP-560UZ sounds like it could be the ultimate paparazzi camera, allowing shutterbugs to take up close and personal pictures from a ridiculous distance away...

The Olympus SP-560UZ sounds like it could be the ultimate paparazzi camera, allowing shutterbugs to take up close and personal pictures from a ridiculous distance away. That's because this otherwise unassuming digicam boasts 18x optical zoom, putting ...

Is the successor to the SP-550UZ really that much of an improvement?

The Olympus SP-560 is an 8 megapixel (CCD) super zoom digital camera with a super long 18x Optical Zoom lens. This camera has an equivalent focal length of 35 to 486mm. The Olympus SP-560 has a 2.5 inch LCD (230,000 pixels), an ISO range of 50 to 6400 ...

This camera has an equivalent focal length of 35 to 486mm

Olympus Super Zoom gets put under the ThinkCamera lens...

Fast to power up ; Smooth video at 30fps ; Good grip and build ; Extensive ISO range ; Powerful telephoto lens

Soft pictures ; Hit and miss focusing ; High ISO settings aren't that useful ; Noisy images ; Desaturated colour

An upgrade from the predecessor to the Olympus SP-560UZ wouldn't be worthwhile in terms of the extras it affords, but the slightly wider 27mm lens can only be regarded as an asset for anyone in the post-Christmas market for a digital camera who ...

Olympus SP-560UZ Review - Two cameras with an 18x zoom arrive in the same week. Truly, the photographically lazy shall inherit the earth. Duncan Evans reports.

18x optical zoom!, 27mm wide angle, Shadow enhancement, Optical stabilisation, Great ISO range, 1cm Super macro mode, Program modes, Attractive looks

ISO6400 reduces resolution, ISO3200 quite messy, Noise is present early on, 15fps burst mode only 1.2Mp

With such a short space of time between the 550UZ and the 560UZ there's was a nagging worry that the differences would be so small as to not worth noting, but fortunately, there are. The slightly wider lens won't give you a fresh perspective on ...

First announced in late January, the SP-550UZ comes with a dreamy set of features: 18x optical zoom with 28mm wide-angle lens, dual image stabilization and maximum ISO 5,000 at 3-megapixel...

updated with the new Olympus SP-560 SP-550 its megazoom, leading to its eight-megapixel RESOLUTION (formerly seven) and slightly changing the focus of his stabilized 18x zoom to the corner (from 28-504 mm and 27-486 mm ).

Mucho más espectaculares que sus hermanas de lanzamiento en el día de hoy, Olympus nos deja en el mercado para el mes de octubre una nueva cámara compacta de las denominadas de zoom largo. La Olympus SP-560 presume ante todo de un zoom óptico de 18 ...

The Olympus SP-560UZ comes into direct competition with the Panasonic DMC-FZ18 also entices them with a 18 times zoom with true wide-angle lens focal length and image stabilizer, in this case a mechanical. It saves as the sole candidate, a custom recordin...

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