Olympus SP-565 UZ

The Olympus SP-565 UZ comes as addition to Olympus's line-up of ultra zoom cameras; this model incorporates a 20x, 26-520mm zoom lens, covering everything from wide-angle landscapes to close-up action shots. Features like Dual Image Stabilisation to help keep pictures sharp, 10 megapixel sensor, 2.5 inch LCD screen, macro mode of 1cm, 13.5fps shooting (at 3 megapixels), Advanced Face Detection, ISO 64-6400 and a full range of creative exposure modes (P/A/S/M). The main attraction for me is the zoom when Olympus introduced the SP-550 UZ it was acclaimed as having the highest zoom rate inbuilt (x 18). This model now has 20 times optical zoom and is the smaller ...  Read the complete review

For a digital camera to stand out from the crowd nowadays it has to have some killer feature, so when I got hold of the SP-565UZ to review it didn't take long for me to find it... not one, not two, but three. On paper it seems fairly run-of-the-mill. Small screen, just 2.5-inches, along with a funny design that makes the camera look off-balance. However, that 2.5-inch screen is superb, very sharp and colourful, this makes it stand out from the crowd. It is also nice that it takes standard AA batteries. Less impressive is the xD memory card slot, the only saving grace is that Olympus included an adaptor to take MicroSD cards which are pretty cheap nowadays, ...  Read the complete review