Thursday, June 26, 2008
Olympus SP570-UZ Product Review
Olympus SP570-UZ is an upgraded model from SP560-UZ introduced roughly half a year ago. It retains all attractive functions and features of its predecessor while boasting a super-versatile 20X 26 to 520mm zoom Lens, 10 million effective pixels CCD, hot-shoe for external flash unit, a newly-added manual zoom ring and so on.
Establishing itself as a high-end SP model, SP570-UZ provides a wide range of choice for photographic control, say, aperture-priority, shutter-speed priority or manual exposure mode and useful white-balance adjustment. To cater to the need of beginners, Auto, Scene and Guide would be equally useful in enhancing photographic pleasure. It seems that Olympus is so ambitious as to embrace user of all kind by a SLR-like super-zoom DC.
The plastic cover of the housing gives your a touch of security and comfort. While the grip ergonomic grip maintains an overall good balances for shooting.
But as for those who have a large hand, the little finger of the right hand may find no place to rest. The EVF is useful but it takes quite a long time to shift from LCD mode to EVF mode so it would be highly recommended to stick to using the LCD which is large and bright.
The powerful 26-520mm zoom lens is currently the longest zoom available for a compact DC.
Though unique in its optics, the pictorial quality is just mediocre. Slow focusing speed is one of its fatal weaknesses and it is unbelievable it takes nearly 2 seconds for the camera for data processing before being ready to take another picture. Shooting with flash is much more disastrous, as you have to wait for about 5second for taking another picture. It is quite a strange design as to fix the ISO at 400 for continuous shooting while the picture quality would be downgraded to 5MP or even 3MP, depending on what fps you choose.
Maybe this is a compromise that one has to succumb to when 20 x zoom optics is packed into such a compact DC.
Establishing itself as a high-end SP model, SP570-UZ provides a wide range of choice for photographic control, say, aperture-priority, shutter-speed priority or manual exposure mode and useful white-balance adjustment. To cater to the need of beginners, Auto, Scene and Guide would be equally useful in enhancing photographic pleasure. It seems that Olympus is so ambitious as to embrace user of all kind by a SLR-like super-zoom DC.
The plastic cover of the housing gives your a touch of security and comfort. While the grip ergonomic grip maintains an overall good balances for shooting.
But as for those who have a large hand, the little finger of the right hand may find no place to rest. The EVF is useful but it takes quite a long time to shift from LCD mode to EVF mode so it would be highly recommended to stick to using the LCD which is large and bright.
The powerful 26-520mm zoom lens is currently the longest zoom available for a compact DC.
Though unique in its optics, the pictorial quality is just mediocre. Slow focusing speed is one of its fatal weaknesses and it is unbelievable it takes nearly 2 seconds for the camera for data processing before being ready to take another picture. Shooting with flash is much more disastrous, as you have to wait for about 5second for taking another picture. It is quite a strange design as to fix the ISO at 400 for continuous shooting while the picture quality would be downgraded to 5MP or even 3MP, depending on what fps you choose.
Maybe this is a compromise that one has to succumb to when 20 x zoom optics is packed into such a compact DC.
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