Advantages: Good features and functions and of course a long zoom. Disadvantages: Poor image qulaity at high zoom and terrible battery life amongst others.
...impressive 18x, now welcome the Olympus SP-590 UZ with its staggering 26x optical zoom.
To put this into perspective you are talking about a range of 26-676mm with a single lens, to buy lens`s for a DSLR to cover this type of range you would realistically be looking at two or as I personally would prefer, three to cover this and you would be looking at spending in the region of £700 and that would be for budget lens`s. So why do professionals like ... ...after two days testing this unit it quickly became apparent to me that although this was a powerful zoom and a very decent unit, it had many limitations and all the money I spend on my equipment is indeed worthwhile after all.
Holding this unit in my hand it firstly felt like a small DSLR but neither as sturdy nor comfortable but still reasonably robust and I was quite happy with what I was holding. Pop out the huge zoom lens however and the unit ...
thebigc1690 26.02.2009 (23.04.2009)
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The SP series is an ultrazoom legend and with the new SP-590UZ Olympus improved its zoom ... more
competence once more: due to the built-in 26x ultrazoom it is now nearly impossible to escape the SP-590UZ. The Dual Image Stabilisation prevents blurry images eve...
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The SP series is an ultrazoom legend and with the new SP-590UZ Olympus improved its zoom ... more
competence once more: due to the built-in 26x ultrazoom it is now nearly impossible to escape the SP-590UZ. The Dual Image Stabilisation prevents blurry images eve...
Postage & Packaging: Free! Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...