Olympus CAMEDIA SP-570UZ digital camera with 20X optical zoom lens!

February 17th, 2008 | Category: Tech Talk

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Olympus announced the “CAMEDIA SP-570UZ,” a lens-integrated digital camera featuring a 20X optical zoom and a 10-Mpixel CCD. Its focal length is 26 to 520mm on a 35mm camera basis. The camera can shoot images up to 3648 x 2736 pixel resolution. plus, it has the capability to record up to 640 x 480 (VGA) resolution video at 30fps. Still images are recorded in DCF compatible JPEG or RAW format.

The new Olympus CAMEDIA SP-570UZ digital camera features three different sequential shooting modes. In “normal mode,” the camera supports sequential shooting of about 7 shots at 1.2fps. Both auto focusing and manual focusing are available. As for exposure, full-auto, aperture preferred and shutter preferred modes as well as manual mode can be chosen.

“High-speed mode 1,” which uses a mechanical shutter, can be only used when the resolution is 2560 x 1920 or lower and allows

sequential shooting of approximately 30 shots at 7.2fps. The electronic shutter-based “high-speed mode 2″ allows sequential shooting of around 30 shots at roughly 13.5fps when the resolution is 2048 x 1536. The SP-570UZ is equipped with an electronic viewfinder (EVF) with about 230000-pixel resolution and a 2.7-inch LCD panel with the same resolution. A flash unit is housed, but external flash devices can plus be connected to its hot shoe.

The new Olympus CAMEDIA SP-570UZ digital camera with 45-Mbyte built-in memory uses four AA alkaline batteries or four AA NiMH (nickel metal hydride) secondary batteries. Battery life allows about 390 shots on average on a CIPA tryout standards basis. Excluding projections, the camera measures 118.5 x 87.5 x 84mm and weighs 445g excluding batteries and a memory card (xD-Picture Card). Olympus CAMEDIA SP-570UZ digital camera will be available from March 6, 2008 for approximately ¥60,000 (US$554).