Olympus SP-560 UZ dpreview.com User Reviews

I have just purchased an SP560 before Christmas. It has a lovely professional feel to it but unfortunately I find the image quality is not quite as good as my 3 year old Olympus C765 which had 4MP and 10x zoom range. I was extremely pleased with this olde...

I received this camera 11/15/07, and really love it! It was purchased as a replacement/upgrade for my almost worn out "UZI", Olympus C2100UZI. The Olympus menus are very familiar, and there are many new options and features to explore. I have, with grea...

Occasional focus lock problems at wider zoom, even with no peripherals attached. This may be due to the low light conditions at this time of year, and the lack of contrast...I will follow up when the light gets better in the spring

This camera is an improvement over its predecessor, the SP-550. It starts up faster.focuses better in low light, and has a slightly deeper buffer for high speed burst mode shots. It also has a few new modes, plus face detection. I like the 3 megapixel Hi...

It does not excel at night photography, although I got a couple of very sharp moon shots. I tried to take a picture of my wife just prior to New Years fireworks - regular flash, slow synch flash, no flash. The results were less than brilliant - overexpose...

I have lost my faith in Olympus and after owning 4 of their previous models, I will never buy one of their products again. See CONS PROS . looks good, feels great in your hands . flash performance is good

CONS ; soft images that lack detail and precision ; lots of noise at medium to low daylight ; movement in sports mode in morning daylight is always blurred (I photograph althletes) ; colours are warm and disappointing ; Don't buy this camera is you like g...

I really love this camera. I have shot several thousand pics with it so far and am really happy with the results. I compared this camera back-to-back with the 550 before purchasing and can say that the 560 is a big improvement. It is also extremely wel...

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The camerea itself is ok. But the image quality is really poor. The pictures are extremely grainy. I believe that Olympus is trying to get too much zoom out of it. I would like to see less zoom and higher pixel rating if they make the censor better. I ret...

560 just arrived. upgraded form the 550. same solid build quality so feels like you got your monies worth. nice to handle. menu options good especiallly wityh new FD group mode etc. With 8MPIXEL seems to have really all one needs for P&S as well as playin...

Indoor shots a little noisy-definitely require flash here. But overall I enjoyed the little beast

A bit about my quest for the compact. I was on market for a compact last year. I handled SP-560 back then but then something took over me and I bought a Canon G7. We never became friends.. I couldn't love G7 no matter how hard I tried. SP-560's memory sta...

No flash in super macro mode.

Video Recording time on top quality

My third current Oly camera, next to E-330 and E-3. Image quality is obviously not comparable to the SRLs : it is good to very good in enough light, but suffers and struggles in low light. But it is a fun and versatile camera to always have lying around...

Not the easiest camera to get good results out of in insufficient light, but what did you think ?