If you’ve got your heart set on a new bridge camera from Olympus, here are the decisions you need to make – would you prefer a 15x or 30x optical zoom, and 12 or 14 megapixels?
If you think you can be quite comfortable with 15x optical zoom and a 12-megapixel sensor, then the SP-600UZ is the mystery camera hiding in the big black box. The screen is a 2.7-inch LCD screen job, and it’s capable of shooting in 720p resolution.
As you will have guessed, the more spec’d SP-800UZ is the 30x optical zoomed, 14-megapixel’d model, and has the same 2.7-inch LCD screen as the lesser-named model from before. Both cameras have a new ‘background defocusing’ feature for defocusing the background, which is a trick stolen from DSLRs.
US pricing has been announced, with the 600UZ coming in at $US249.99 and the 800UZ for $US349.99, with both swinging their ways onto store shelves in March.
Karl Froehlich
Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 6:04 PMWould it be possible to get a price in Aust.Dollars?
How do these cameras compare with the old 550UZ.
I’ve got my eye on a second hand 550 and would like to have an unbiased comment about these cameras and if the price is going to be extreme for the new ones, I just be just as happy with the 550.