Oct 30 2008
Olympus SP 565 UZ 20x Zoom Compact Camera
Posted by: Sierra in Reviews

The Olympus SP-565 UZ model is the result of compressing the world’s most powerful ultra-zoom digital camera into a smaller and lighter form factor without sacrificing its famous capabilities.
It is the new Olympus 20x zoom compact camera model that enables extreme close-ups for capturing all the details, or zoom-outs for panorama pictures with beautiful landscapes, composed of 3 images. In addition, it has dual-image stabilization with Sensor-Shift Image Stabilization and Digital Image Stabilization technologies that work together to compensate hands shakes and to render clear images in different cases.
If you need to shoot an image with many people figures you can easily rely on another technology enabled in this digital camera, which focuses and optimized exposures for up to 16 faces in the same portrait picture. More than that, it gives you full control of the Aperture, Manual and Shutter Speed Priority to free your creativity and capture the perfect images.
The smile detection is not missing either, so you can preserve the nicest smiles of people, captured in 3 consecutive sequences.
Olympus SP-565 UZ is a 10MP camera that sports a 2.5-inch LCD display providing 5 Steps Brightness Adjustment, giving you the possibility to shoot in any environment with various light intensity.
Other specifications include a 1/2.33-inch CCD sensor, Electronic View Finder with Dioptic Correction, multiple focus modes (iESP Auto, Spot AF, Face Detection AF, Full-Time AF, Selective AF Target, Predictive AF, AF Lock, Manual Focus), 1/2000 sec. –1/2 sec. (up to 4 sec. in Night Scene mode) automatic shutter speed, 1/2000 sec. - 15 sec. manual shutter speed, ISO sensitivity between 64 and 6400, Digital ESP Metering, Spot Metering, Center-Weighted Metering, White Balance control settings, 33 shooting modes, 13.5 frames per second for high-speed continuous shooting, several Shooting Assist Functions, video recording with sound at up to 640 x 480 resolution at 30 frames per second, Playback Edit Effects, 12 Seconds self-timer, and up to 2GB extended memory via a microSD or xD-Picture Card.
The camera model powers from 4 AA batteries, which is enough for 410 shots, or Ni-MH 2500mAh for up to 590 shots.
You can find it in the United States at a price of around $360.
(Via Testfreaks)






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