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Monday, December 31, 2007

Olympus SP-560UZ Review

“We described the Fuji S8000fd as trying to be all things to all people, but that was before we really got to grips with the Olympus SP-560UZ. The number of features and options available on the Olympus is frankly comical. You could use this camera for years without ever finding all the (often fairly pointless) things it can do, so numerous and deeply buried in menus are they. The SP-560UZ has more features than most users will ever discover, let alone want to use. This isn’t helped by the rather brief manual that glosses over much of the camera’s functionality only being included as a PDF on a CD. This kind of cost-cutting isn’t unique to Olympus but is hard to justify in a camera this feature-laden. The mysteries of “one-touch” white balance and area auto focus mode are only clarified by spending time clicking through the PDF manual.”

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