Olympus SP-570UZ 10MP Digital Camera with 20x Optical Dual Image Stabilized Zoom | 
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| Brand: Olympus
Category: Photography
List Price: $449.99
Buy New: $379.88
You Save: $70.11 (16%)
New (20) Used (3) from $345.00
Rating:  55 reviews
Sales Rank: 431
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Floppy Disk Drive: None
Includes Software: Yes
Optical Zoom: 20
Digital Zoom: 5
Connectivity: AV
Display Size: 2.7
Maximum Focal Length: 92
Minimum Focal Length: 4.6
Maximum Resolution: 10000000
Has Red Eye Reduction: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 3.1 x 4.6 x 3.1
nv:Sensor: 10 Megapixel
Size: 1/2.33?
Image Resolution: 3648 x 2736
Movie Resolution: 640x480
Memory Included: 45MB Internal
Storage Media: xD-Picture Card? (1GB, 2GB)
Compressed Format: JPEG, RAW
Movie File Format: AVI motion JPEG
Optical Zoom: 20x
Digital Zoom: 5x
Combined Zoom: 100x
Focal Length: f= 4.60 - 92.0mm
Focus Mode: Manual
Focus Mode: Full-time AF
Focus Mode: Spot AF
Focus Mode: iESP auto
Focus Mode: AF
Focus Mode: Selective AF Target
Focus Mode: Face-Detection
Focus Mode: Predictive AF
MPN: 226355
Model: 226355
UPC: 050332162976
EAN: 0050332162976
ASIN: B0011E67VA
Release Date: April 14, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 10-megapixel image sensor captures enough detail for photo-quality 18 x 24-inch prints | | • | 20x optical dual image-stabilized zoom | | • | 2.7-inch HyperCrystal LCD | | • | Perfect Fix in-camera editing; includes Olympus Master 2 software | | • | Stores images on xD Picture Cards (not included) |
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Product Description
With superior optics, power and portability, the SP-570 UZ provides a wealth of creative control without the expense of an SLR. Whether you're looking for 20x optical zoom or 13.5fps sequential shooting, this all-in-one, versatile, compact camera is great for outdoor, travel and sports photography. The powerful, ultra-compact lens gives you unmatched shooting versatility with its amazing 20x optical zoom to bring you close to the action, and the wide-angle lens that lets you easily capture more of your scene. By featuring the TruePic III Image Processor, your images will come through with true-to-life color, sharper detail, and less noise. As if all that wasn't enough, the SP-570 UZ also sports the new Face Detection technology, which recognizes and tracks faces within the frame to help you capture sharp, brilliant portrait photos. Focus Range Normal mode - Wide - 0.1m - infinity, Tele - 1.2m - infinity, Macro Mode - Wide - 0.1m - infinity, Tele - 1.2m - infinity, Super Macro mode - 1cm - infinity Auto - 1/2000 -1/2 sec. (up to 4 Sec. In Night Scene mode) Shutter Speed Manual - 1/2000 - 15 sec. Shutter Speed Auto, High Auto, 64, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400 ISO 45MB Internal Memory (additional memory recommended to store more photos and video) Media Card Slot - xD-Picture Card (1GB,2GB) Built-in Flash with Auto, Red-Eye Reduction, Fill-in + Red-Eye Reduction, Slow Synchro1, Slow1 + Red-Eye Reduction, Slow Synchro2, Off Flash modes Flash Working Range - 0.3m - 6.4m @ ISO 400 Wide, 1.2m - 4m @ ISO 400 Tele USB Connector, Audio/Video Output, DC Input Approximate Unit Dimensions - 4.7(W) x 3.3(H) x 3.4(D) Approximate Unit Weight - 15.7oz (without battery & media card)
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| Customer Reviews: Read 45 more reviews...
 Great camera for soccer moms! April 19, 2008
Heather M. Williamson (Arlington, Tn USA)
125 out of 132 found this review helpful
I bought this camera early in April, from another vendor. I didn't want to wait until Amazon's April 15 release date! My newfound hobby is photographing high school rugby games, so I am by no means a professional and truly don't know much at all about photography at all. I had been using a Kodak Easyshare with 12x zoom with good results, but I wanted to get closer and I wanted faster sequential shooting. Yet, I didn't want to buy a $1,000 plus SLR camera. After all, I'm not trying to win a Pulitzer. I'm not frantically concerned with crisp color, and I don't have time to learn a million functions. I just want to get the "money shot" - a player with ball in hand, hair flying, face in grimace, muscles straining, dirt clods and sweat droplets spraying around - you know what I mean. After some research I discover that my Easyshare, and this Olympus, are in a class of camera called point-and-shoot super zoom - yeah! That's exactly what I wanted! And THIS camera, at 20x zoom gets you closer than any other out there. So I was sold. And wow, are my pictures with this camera GREAT! I started with the pre-programmed sports mode, but found that my best action shots were in the "P" mode, at a speed of H1 (and that's not even the fastest speed!), with image quality = fine. I saved these settings as a "my mode" and can adjust brightness/exposure with the dial at the top of the camera if I need to. Other than the great money shots I am getting with this camera, I like the battery life. I have taken up to 1,500 pictures at a time without having to change the battery, and I use the screen a lot. I also like that I am not bound to a monopod - it's light, it's point and shoot, I can move around and adjust things quickly and catch just about all the action. The only thing I don't like is the amount of time it takes for sequentially shot pictures to "save". It can be frustrating to wait on the camera to save while action is going on that you can't capture. This was a problem with my Easyshare, too, and I suspect is a problem with any point and shoot with sequential shooting capabilities. The only reason I'd ever upgrade to an SLR is that this does not appear to be an issue with those types of cameras. If my fascination with sports photography continues to grow, I imagine someday I will buy an SLR. But for now, I am really satisfied with this Olympus and it's 20x zoom and dozens fps shooting speed!
One sweet camera May 25, 2008
Charles Hawkins (Albuquerque, NM USA)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I have owned the Olympus SP-57OUZ Digital Camera for a little over a month, and continue to find reasons to be very satisfied with my choice. For years, I was wed to Canon SLR's (pre-digital), and was content but not thrilled when I switched to digital. My first camera was an HP850, which seems ancient to today's standards, but served me well. I thought I might make the leap to a Canon digital SLR, but didn't want to pay the high prices nor carry the extra weight around, or fuss around changing lenses.
When I read the initial (pre-release) reviews of tis Olympus, it had all the bells and whistles I wanted, at a decent price (Amazon's price was best), and so it became my choice. I am thrilled at everything this Olympus is capable of, especially shooting in low light, at full telephoto extention. It has image stabilization, and 20x zoom power, which I found to render excellent pictures at my granddaughter's ballet recital. I was shooting from about the sixth row, more than forty feet away, and was able to get clear candid closet-ups of her during the performance.
I also enjoy the Olympus' ability to take in-camera panoramas, and then stich them together seamlessly. I have used this feature using a tripod and hand-held, and either way has produced excellent results. I wholeheartedly recommend this cutting-edge camera.
firmware update July 14, 2008
Eric -K- (California)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Just got the camera last week. Seems like it will be all it says it is and more. Just a quick note for anyone concerned about zoom lag. If you install the Olympus software that came with the camera on your computer you can access firmware updates for the camera. Olympus has very recently done a firmware update that added a language and improves the zoom response on the camera. Zoom response seems improved since I updated my camera.
Not perfect...but makes up for it's shortcomings very well June 10, 2008
Matthew Fitzgerald (Woodinville, Washington)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
After owning an Olympus C-3030 for a few years and getting several comments on the excellent photos it produced, I was ready to upgrade to something with more features, zoom, resolution and compatibility.
I first purchased a Canon A650-IS bundle for Christmas and was immedaitely displeased with the graininess of indoor shots without the flash. I know Canon makes good digicams, but in the megapixel race, I felt they just crammed too many pixels onto the sensor to produce quality low-light images. So, back it want.
Now, the SP-570UZ is not the 'be all and end all' in prosumer-level digital cameras, but for what it is designed to do, it does, for the most part, pretty darned well. The range of the lens alone is fantastic. I can get excellent wide-angle shots and wonderful zoomed close-ups. Perfect for a typical consumer wanting decent quality shots of kid's sports, snapshots and outdoor landscape photos. The various preset scene modes are fairly good and I've done well with sunset/sunrise shots.
I have had the camera for a month or so and had photos from my wedding, honeymoon, softball games and other family events turn out awesome. There is still some annoying noise in low-light situations, but not nearly as bad as the Canon. I can definitely live with it and I have found some ways to deal with it afterward that make the shot acceptable for larger prints. The zoom ring takes a little time to get used to and it does lag a bit and can make it hard to make fine adjustments, but I understand there may be a firmware update that helps with this issue, so I am crossing my fingers.
The night-scene mode is great for those cityscape and dusk shots. I really love the fact that I can shoot in RAW (however, I still have yet to work alot with RAW images), because, as my wife says I "just can't leave the image alone" prior to printing. The panoramic mode that can be used with Olympus cards is neat and does a good job stitching in-camera, but some scenes can cause a portion of the stitched image to skew quite a bit, requireing a re-do.
One drawback is the fact that it will only take xD Picture cards, but this I can live with as well. The Olympus "color" I have come to love is still present and so far, my prints from my HP Photosmart C-7180 look phenomonal!
I am giving it 5 stars, not due to it being perfect, but for perfectly satisfying all my primary reqquirements, for the overall cost, and then some. This camera will be a perfect carry-along P&S camera before I break down and get a DSLR to extend my photographic capabilities.
Almost perfect July 19, 2008
James Rogers (Ft. Collins Co USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought the Olympus SP570 UZ from Amazon.com after trying to deal with people who offered great prices but tried to get what they could out of me. I am checking Amazon first from now on. I have had it for a month and after over 120 pictures, I am still on the batteries included with the camera. I used it right out of the box in auto mode and am learning to use moree and more of the modes and options. Based on pictures I have taken, I have a photo job lined up this evening. You can't mount a filter on this camera without using a tube. Since the camera does adjust to different lighting situations, you can get by without filters for most situations, not a big deal. I've talked two friends into buying one already. If you want an slr, this does have full manual yet if you just want to pop your camera up and get a shot, this will do it.
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