Great camera with some limitations | Olympus SP-570UZ 10MP Digital Camera with 20x Optical Dual Image...

Great camera - few shortcomings | Olympus SP-570UZ 10MP Digital Camera with 20x Optical Dual Image Stabilized Zoom

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	• Olympus SP-570UZ 10MP Digital Camera with 20x Optical Dual Image Stabilized Zoom Olympus Olympus, 2008 average customer review:based on 47 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Love this Camera

I am not a professional but do a lot of photography and photo editing. I have taken, what some say, are beautiful photos. I bought this camera after researching for over a year. Reading reviews, opinions, watching for "what's new", etc. I took the photos for my daughters wedding, a small private ceremony, and was blown away. I had two days to 'play' with it. One of the best I took was in the Candlelight mode. You can take good or bad pictures with any camera. You need the eye and sometimes just more than one shot. The continuous shot is great. There are enough modes to use, and are explained well, that you could take pix for a long time just using them. Love the feel, the weight, the zoom ring. I don't understand the problem some have w/ the xd card. I got a good price and can get hundreds of pix. I will post some if my slow dial-up will allow. Fantastic job Olympus.

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Great camera with some limitations

I was a big Olympus fan back in the days of film, but switched to other brands when digital came along. I bought my 570UZ for a photo safari to Kenya. I no longer care to haul all the lenses that are necessary to shoot a wide range of sujects with an SLR.

My 570 performed well under most conditions, but fell short in low-light scenarios (too much noise), and resulted in some shots being too soft. In one instance, the camera couldn't focus at all on a patch of flowers with sunlight on them. Still, I got excellent results with most shots, and with 10 megapixel quality, was able to enlarge them to 16X20 without pixelation.

Start-up time is good, response time is good (better with an H card), and the scene modes make it very easy to get the right exposure for a specific condition, such as sunsets, etc. There is even a mode for shooting through glass, which works great at the zoo. For serious photographers, the camera has a hot shoe for attaching an external flash.

All things considered, I would recommend this camera to anyone who doesn't want the expense or hassle of buying or carrying an SRL.

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Great camera - few shortcomings

I upgraded from Olympus C-750UZ (4 MP, 10X zoom) to SP-570UZ. Features I wanted were longer zoom, higher MP, zoom ring (selectable as manual focus ring), and continued full manual control. I immediately installed an Olympus website firmware update to smooth the zoom ring operation. I'm using 2 GB M+ xD card which saves large photo files quickly enough. With added experience, the many control buttons/switches/rings seem logical enough.

I was surprised at the difference in the widest zoom settings - the SP-570 takes in much more width for landscapes. It also has a fantastic panorama stitch option I've used in landscape shots.

I'm also impressed with the image stabilization which has allowed hand-held 20X zoom photos of the full moon that were surprisingly clear. I bought the CLA-10 extension tube so I could use the 55mm polarizing filter I used on the C-750. This has resulted in severe vignetting when trying to shoot at the widest zoom setting.

Since most of my photos are taken with at least some manual control, I have not yet sampled all of the scene settings. There are a lot to choose from.

I expected the battery life before recharging to be longer, so I'm hoping some new more powerful rechargables will provide a remedy. I have not yet been able to find a way to change the brightness intensity of the electronic viewfinder which consistently displays the subjects much brighter than the resulting photos. I've learned to compensate for this, but a brightness setting would be better.

All in all, this camera provides great flexibility and user control in a wide variety of photo taking opportunities. I'd definitely recommend it if you want something more than an automatic point and shoot but don't want to carry all the lenses required in a DSLR.

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Experience the power of 20x zoom with the SP-570 UZ. This compact 10 Megapixel camera does it all - from wide-angle perspectives to breathtaking close ups. Dual Image Stabilization even ensures images come out blur free. And for high-action moments, this model shoots at up to a whopping 13.5 frames per second in 3 Megapixel mode!