Olympus SP-570 UZ Expert Reviews

We have analyzed the reviews for the Olympus SP-570 UZ using our BETA review analysis. These are our findings: The Olympus SP-570 UZ is very good. Despite scruples with the resolution, people are pleased with the sharp zoom, sharp photo color quality, and memory cards. If you can overlook the resolution, mark this digital camera as an option.

top-quality battery life, brilliant design, exceptional features, extraordinary handling, fantastic lens, outstanding memory cards, outstanding photo color quality, top-quality photos, very good resolution, outstanding user manual, first-class zoom.

terrible viewfinder.

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Lots of helpful and useful features.

Slow; big; manual zoom ring on lens not responsive enough; can't zoom in movie capture.

Poor performance diminishes the Olympus SP-570 UZ's potential as an otherwise solid megazoom.

If you feel your inner paparazzo yearning to come out and play, consider the Olympus SP-570UZ with its whopping 20x zoom lens - the equivalent of a 28mm-520mm zoom in 35mm photography. We had lots of fun shooting with this camera, firing off photos of ar...

- Excellent body design - 20x zoom - Extensive customizability and manual control options - Effective image stabilization system

- Imprecise zoom and manual focus controls - Mediocre lab test results in most categories - Poor video performance

  Take a look at the new Olympus models The megapixel war may be raging onward elsewhere, but the Olympus SP-570UZ is claiming a victory among the competition in the ultra-zoom digital camera market. Its 20x optical zoom lens is the longest on a compac

- Retro DSLR look - Great handling - 20x zoom lens - DSLR-like buttons - Lots of in-cam editing - Multi-Firework mode - Fingerprint-less LCD

- xD compatible up to only 2GB - Can't have audio AND zoom in movies - Zoom ring isn't very sensitive - Slow burst

We looked at the Olympus SP-570UZ at the PMA show and here's what we can tell you. It has a very cool retro DSLR look that fooled many eyes and made many people think Olympus may have put out yet another DSLR. Its design is not only classy but comfortable...

This innovative shooter is loaded with features, among them a 20X zoom lens. It's a worthy purchase for just about anyone who wants to get closer to the action.

Easily adjustable 20X zoom lens. Perfect Shot Preview. Shadow adjustment.

Image quality is inconsistent. Limited video. Irksome lens-focusing sound.

Even though its image quality isn't quite as consistent as that of competing models, this superzoom boasts plenty of useful features that make it worth considering.

The king of the high-zoom cameras offers sharp long-distance pics and quality ergonomics.

20X optical zoom is the highest in class, iESP focus targeting

Delayed shutter release, Autofocus sometimes searches fuzzily

We also had a bit of trouble getting the autofocus to lock onto targets in low light. The autofocus would scan from one end to the other trying to sharpen the image, and sometimes took up to 2 seconds to fully lock on to a focal point. In bright dayl...

The new SP-570 UZ is the latest in a long line of super-zoom cameras from Olympus. In the distant digital past, Olympus was one of the first manufacturers to market a superzoom camera, and their C-2100UZ model, fondly referred to as the 'UZI' by its owner...

The Olympus SP-570UZ features 20x zoom, optical image-stabilization, and a full-manual mode. Are its images worthy of its features-set?

20x zoom. Optical image-stabilization. Excellent design.

Small imaging-sensor. Issues with fringing and distortion. Only supports xD cards.

With an almost unlimited choice of compacts and DSLR cameras today, you could easily forget that there is another category of cameras out there that appears to be quite popular, the "SLR-like" cameras. We have taken a closer look at the Olympus SP-570 UZ,...