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Olympus 560UZ

Reviewed January 2008

Specifications

 Introduction
Ergonomics
Characteristics
Image Quality
Interface & Software
Camera Views
Test Photos
Specifications
Our Opinion

Physical
Width 4.6 inches Height 3.1 inches
Depth 3.1 inches Weight 12.9 oz, without batteries & card
Power 4 AA batteries In the box

camera, batteries, USB cable, manual, lens cap and string, strap and strap rings, software CD

Photographic
Playback Effects stills
· red-eye fix
· lighting fix
· resize
· rotate
· black and white
· sepia
· frame
· label
· calendar
· layout
· expression edit
· face focus
· RAW editmovies
· frame index
· movie edit
· still image cropping 		Playback Views stills
· single image
· index (4/9/16/25)
· enlarge (10x maximum)
· slideshow
· rotate
· calendar
· histogram movies
· normal
· reverse
· frame-by-frame
· index
LCD Screen 2.5 inches (diagonal),
230K px with backlight boost
5-step brightness adjustment		 Sensitivity auto
high auto
ISO 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400 (equivalent)
Metering digital ESP metering
spot metering
center-weighted metering
face detection AE		 White Balance iESP 2 auto
one-touch
white balance compensation
presets:
· daylight
· overcast
· tungsten
· 3 fluorescents
Shooting Modes auto
program auto
aperture priority
shutter priority
manual
my mode
sensor-shift image stabilization
scene modes:
· portrait
· landscape
· landscape-portrait
· sport
· night scene
· night-portrait
· indoor, candle
· self-portrait		 · available light portrait
· sunset
· fireworks
· cuisine
· behind glass
· documents
· auction
· shoot & select1
· shoot & select2
· beach
· snow
· smile shot
· underwater wide1
· underwater wide2
· underwater macro
· quick shutter
· movie
Panorama Mode 10 frames automatically stitchable with Olympus software and Olympus xD picture card

Focus
System CCD Contrast Detection Range normal mode:
· wide, 3.9 inches to infinity
· telephoto, 47.2 inches to infinity
macro mode:
· wide, 3.9 inches to infinity
· telephoto, 47.2 inches to infinity
super macro mode:
· 0.4 inches to infinity
Modes iESP Auto
spot AF
face detection AF
full-time AF
selective AF target
AF lock
predictive AF
manual		 Shutter Speed auto:
· 1/2000-1/2 second (4 second maximum in Night Scene mode
manual:
· 1/2000-15 seconds (bulb maximum 8 minutes)
Viewfinder electronic with dioptic correction Flash built-in
Flash Range wide:
· 0.98 feet-21 feet (ISO 400)
telephoto:
· 3.9 feet-13.1 feet (ISO 400)		 Flash Modes autored-eye reduction
fill-in
fill-in with red-eye reduction
slow synchro off
Flash Recycle Time 7 seconds at room temperature with fully charged battery Exposure Compensation ±2 EV in 1/3 EV steps
Self Timer

12 seconds2 seconds

    

Technical
Sensor Type CCD Sensor Size 1/2.35 inches
Image Processor TruePic III Pixels gross
· 8.5 megapixels
effective
· 8.0 megapixels
File Formats still
· JPEG
· RAW
movie
· AVI motion JPEG 		Supported Standards Exif 2.2
DPOF
Print Image Matching III
PictBridge
Memory

47MB

 Media xD picture card (H, M or standard)
Sizes (in pixels) still
· 3264 x 2448 (RAW/SHQ/HQ)
· 3264 x 2176 (3:2,SHQ/HQ)
· 2560 x 1920 (SQ1)
· 2304 x 1728 (SQ1)
· 2048 x 1536 (SQ1)
· 1280 x 960 (SQ2)
· 640 x 480 (SQ 2)
· 1920 x 1080 (16:9)
movie
· 640x480/30fps (SHQ)
· 320x240/15fps (HQ)
· 160x120/15fps (SQ)		 Capacities (number of images/length of movies) still (internal memory)
· RAW 4
· SHQ 12
· SHQ (3:2) 13
· HQ 23
· HQ (3:2) 26
· SQ1 19-56
· SQ2 45-505
· 16:9 60-63
still (1GB card)
· RAW 85-86
· SHQ 253-255
· SHQ (3:2) 284-286
· HQ 492-499
· HQ (3:2) 551-561
· SQ1 404-1184
· SQ2 954-10,660
· 16:9 1279-1332
movie (internal memory)
· SHQ 26 seconds
· HQ 2 minutes 22 seconds-2 minutes 26 seconds
· SQ 9 minutes 28 seconds-10 minutes 44 seconds
movie (1GB card)
· SHQ 40 seconds
· HQ 29 minutes
· SQ 29 minutes
Time Between Photos 3.4 seconds (SHQ 3264 x 2448 xD standard) Start Time 2.9 seconds
Sequential Shooting normal
· 1.2 frames per second
· 7 fps in HQ mode
high-speed1
· 7 fps (2048 x 1536)
· 23 fps in SQ1
high-speed2
· 15 fps (1280 x 960)
· 40 fps SQ2
exposure bracketing
· 5 frames
interval shooting
customizable
 Zoom Lens optical
· 18xdigital
· 5.6x
35mm Equivalent 27-486 millimeters
Lens Configuration 14 Lenses in 11 groups, 4 aspherical lenses, 2 ED Lenses
Apertures F2.8-F4.5
I/O USB 2.0
audio/video
DC input (adapter optional)
System Requirements Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Mac OS X 10.3 or greater
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Introduction
Ergonomics
Characteristics
Image Quality
Interface & Software
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Test Photos
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