Olympus SP-560 UltraZoom - UK Digital Camera Review

Olympus SP-560 UltraZoom Review

The Olympus SP-560 UltraZoom with its 18x optical zoom and wide angle capabilities opens up opportunities for the wider shots such as family groups. Also with 8 megapixels CCD sensor and 5.6 digital zoom the flexibility of this camera is superb giving great detail in distance shots. High speed 15fps sequel shooting and P/A/S/M exposure modes offer the photographer creativity.

There are many excellent features within the Olympus SP-560 UltraZoom including a choice of 24 scene modes where appropriate settings have been preselected to suit certain conditions and these include: sports, night, portrait and landscape, fireworks, indoor, beach, snow and candle together with three underwater modes.

Olympus SP-560 UltraZoom Front
Olympus SP-560 UltraZoom Back

Underwater shooting up to water pressure equivalent of 40m is possible when using the optional underwater case (PT-037). Additional technology also makes the SP-560 UltraZoom an extremelty versatile camera and this includes Dual image stabilisation to compensate for blurring; BrightCapture giving better results on low light shooting; the TruePic III image processor for increased image quality due to the speed of image handling; Face Detection which will seek out faces within your picture and ensure correct focus and exposure are used. Panoramic scenes can be shot when using an optional Olympus xD-Picture Card.

The Olympus SP-560 UltraZoom has an electronic viewfinder and images can be viewed on the 6.4cm/2.5" LCD with still images viewed as calendar, album, zoom, slide show, index and rotation and movies at frame by frame, fast forward or reverse. This camera has an internal memory of 47 MB and still images are recorded as DCF/RAW/Exif 2.21/PIM III/DPS/DPOF and movies with sound as AVI Motion JPEG WAV. Still image editing choices include; sepia, black and white, resizing, trimming, attachment of frame/title/calendar/layout, correction of brightness/saturation/colour balance and red-eye reduction. Movie choices are edit movie and index.

ISO sensitivity equivalents are auto and manual of 50/100/200/400/800/1600/3200/6400, White Balance offers auto, fluorescents, tungsten, manual, overcast and sunlight. The internal flash has auto, red-eye reduction, red-eye reduction and fill-in, slow sync, fill-in and off.

The Olympus SP-560 UltraZoom has dimensions of 116 x 78.5 x 78mm and weighs approximately 365g (without battery and card).

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Olympus SP-560 UltraZoom Specifications & Features

  • 8 Megapixels
  • 18 x Optical Zoom
  • 5.6 x Digital Zoom
  • 100 x Combined Zoom
  • 1cm Focusing Distance
  • AUTO WB system, Sunlight, Overcast, Tungsten, Flourescent and Manual White Balance Settings
  • 2.5" TFT, 230,000 pixels
  • Auto, Red-eye Reduction, Fill-in and Red-eye, Slow Synchro and Off Flash Modes
  • Maximum Image Size 3264 x 2448 Pixels
  • 640 x 480, 30fps Movies
  • xD-Picture Card
  • Approximate Weight 365g

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