Olympus SP-500 - Digital Camera Review
November 13th, 2008 at 11:06pm Under Olympus
Overall Assessment
Design 9 / 10
Qualita finish 9 / 10
Rich functionality 9 / 10
Access’ Profiles 8 / 10
Qualita ‘image 9 / 10
Battery 8 / 10
Quality Report ‘price 9 / 10
Overall Assessment 9 / 10
Optical zoom, image sensor; Programs Shooting
Cons: Weight, size, price, memory
Conclusion: By combining brilliantly many technologically advanced features with the versatility that offers ultra 10x zoom and the power of 6.0 million pixels, the camera Olympus SP-500 gives photographers the opportunity to more fully meet experts from all their wishes and unleash their creativity. Gives you a full manual control of all important functions well and shot 21 programs that can be selected. For the rest, the display is large but not with an excellent resolution, size is larger than most compact and the weight is considerable.
Design
The camera has a design and decided that, with all its color black, is close to most professional reflex that the digital compact. Even the dimensions are slightly ‘above the average of cameras in the same category as measuring 105.5 mm wide, 74.5 mm in height and 71 mm deep.
Weight, then, is really high with its 285 grams excluding the battery. One positive note is, however, color display very large and bright 2.5-inch diagonal and a resolution that margins can be about 115,000 pixels. Very important is the wide and comfortable grip positioned on the right that allows easy and secure the camera. Finally, this model has an electronic viewfinder with 201,600 pixels.
Features and functionality
The camera Olympus SP-500 is the ideal product for fans of photography and offers a full manual control that surely will attract even more experienced photographers. A provision of a precise optical zoom that allows up to 10 magnification, whose focal length is 6.3 - 63 mm equivalent to 38-380 mm in size 35 mm and whose opening is from f2.8 to f3.7 . At the optical zoom is also adds a 5x digital zoom for a total capacity of 50 magnification, allowing the user to immortalize also subject miles away. It is therefore ideal for photographing such as sporting events such as football matches or more. The images are always bright, sharp, high-definition thanks to the presence of an image sensor type CCD, 1 / 2, 5 inches in size and 6 million pixels effective resolution.
The photos, high quality, can reach up to 2816×2112 pixel resolution and the highest quality of video is 320×240 pixels. This camera allows the photographer to release all their creativity through a well-21 shooting programs that can be selected for photos always perfect in every circumstance, such as portrait, landscape, night, sports, interior, sunset, fireworks and lots of others. Among other things, you can store four settings themselves via the “My Mode”. Among other functions, as the super macro mode that lets you get closer to 3 cm from the subject, the predictive AF that automatically corrects the players with that move in a straight line to and from the camera, or the flash integrated with the automatic mode, red-eye reduction, fill-in, turned off.
For more experienced photographers, in addition to the many programs of recovery and automatic exposure, there are also the priority of times and diaphragms that allow you to unleash their creativity.
As regards the storage, the images can be saved not only in JPEG format, but also in RAW format, which keeps the data exactly as they were when shooting without any changes. Both the video images are then stored in internal memory, decidedly low, 10 MB or you can buy memory cards type of internal xD-Picture Card available up to a maximum capacity of 1 GB.
The power of the camera through 4 batteries that can be chosen from among the classic alkaline disposable or rechargeable ones. The camera is also equipped with USB port and output audio / video to be connected to a computer or a television. Finally, the package includes the purchase strap, four alkaline batteries, USB cable, cable audio / video, manual and CD with software for managing photos.
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