Olympus SP-590 UZ

Today there are basically three types of camera selling regularly, those are the compact digital, the bridge camera and the DSLR. A compact digital being the hand held point and shoot that almost everyone has these days, a bridge camera being a camera that looks like a DSLR and has many of the functions but has a fixed lens and a DSLR being the professional type camera that you can change lenses on, add flash units to and adjust every setting known to man manually. There is however now a fourth type of camera becoming more and more popular and they are known as super zooms. For years now everyone has been desperate to get the camera with the biggest megapixel ...  Read the complete review

The Olympus SP-590UZ closely resembles the smaller and simpler SP-565UZ camera. On first impressions it feels good in hand; the very deep rubberised grip provides a secure and comfortable hold. The shutter release with a zoom lever surrounding it is nicely position for ease of use. It look and feels generally substantial and well built even though the body is mainly plastic but it doesn't look plasticy. You get a printed quick start guide in the box with your new camera and there is sufficient information to get you started contained in that guide. A well cross-referenced PDF manual is provided on disk and this contains much more information for the more ...  Read the complete review

The Olympus SP-590UZ is one of the ultra-zoom range of Olympus cameras, with a 26x optical zoom with a focal range of 26-676mm. The SP-590UZ also has a 12 megapixel sensor, 2.7 inch LCD screen, Advanced Face Detection and ISO 64-6400. Despite the plastic casing the camera feels well-built. The camera runs on four AA batteries and takes only xD cards, with the internal memory of 22MB this provides a disadvantage as xD cards are more expensive than the more common SD cards and not many external card readers support them, especially those on laptops. The camera boasts Dual Image Stabilisation to produce sharp images on handheld shots by counteracting camera ...  Read the complete review

I recently lent the Olympus SP-590UZ camera from a friend although I am only a Novice photographer. However I was quite pleased at what the SP-590UZ had to offer. The Camera itself only has a rather typical specification which is somewhat surprising for a camera of its rank. With the exception of its extraordinary zoom it also features a 12 mega pixel 1/2.33-inch sensor, a 2.7-inch 230k monitor, an electronic viewfinder and a range of manual exposure options. Whilst using I did find however that the it seemed very large and also quite heavy weighing it at 535g, having said that, in general the build quality of the camera is exceptional ...  Read the complete review