Olympus SP-590UZ : most powerful ultra zoom digital camera


Olympus SP-590UZ is member of Olympus camera that is an ultrazoom legend with improved zoom skills is leading a war of lens length with 26x Stylus SP-590UZ, in spite of this it also makes a decent megazoom, a good photo quality as well as good digital camera with best performance, a competitive useful feature set. The design of Olympus SP-590UZ is typically traditional that consist of a plastic solid body with a rubberized grip and of AA batteries to power the camera. The camera takes two equally form of media that is Olympus proprietary xD-Picture card and microSD card that fits in XD card adapter.


Olympus SP-590UZ model has dual image stabilization successfully prevents blurry image. The advance face detection technology of this camera can detects more than 16 faces and it also offers a high speed of 10fps sequence shooting. This high definition multimedia interface camera can result you a razorsharp photo on a high definition camera.


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Features of Olympus SP-590UZ are very interesting and more advance:

  • 26x wide optical zoom(26.676mm), 130x incl. digital zoom
  • Dual image stabilization that avoids blurry image
  • 12 megapixel sensors that include 1/ 2.33- inch CCD
  • LCD that measures 2.7 inch fixed including 230,000 dots
  • 640 x 480 max video resolution at 30 fps
  • consist of optical zoom
  • PASM, Auto, scene exposure mode
  • ISO 64 – ISO 6,400 sensitive range
  • High definition multimedia interface viewing of image on HD TVs
  • Advance Face detection technology
  • Video at 30 frame per second
  • 10 frame per second shooting speed
  • maximum aperture of f/2.8 to f/5.0 across the different focal length
  • supports file format DCF, RAW, EXIF, DPOF, PIM III, AVI motion JPEG WAV audio and DSP PictBridge
  • 4xAA battery
  • Body dimension is 4.3x3.5x3.6 and operating weight (ounces) is 18.7

Olympus SP-590UZ includes a beauty mode that blurs skin slightly. It works well on its way to slow approximate 20 seconds between shot and the result. It results 2 mega pixel images. It is very easy and straightforward to use and learn the functionality of this camera. Olympus SP-590UZ includes a MyMode that holds up to four groups of custom setting including focal length setting. An OK button pulls up frequently needed shooting like ISO sensitivity, white balance, drive mode, metering, compression and image size. Olympus SP-590UZ comprise of a precapture high speed mode that shoots 103 megapixel frames at 10 fps from focus lock until you snap the photo. Although the standard continuous shooting, there are higher speed drive mode that has a speed of up to 10fps but they operate at reduced image size of 5 and 3 megapixel.


There are some dedicated buttons for exposure compensation in the Olympus SP-590UZ, self timer, macro mode, flash, toggling shadow Adjustment and a custom button for assigning a variety of capability, focus/AE lock, focus mode and image stabilizer. Most of the camera have a limit 3--in +/- 1/3, 2/3 or full stop interval but the exposure bracket of this camera is up to 5 shots. This camera power on and shoots in 1.6 seconds that is really a pretty fast for its followers.

In good light Olympus SP-590UZ matches the focus and shoot speed that is 0.6 seconds but in dim light it really struggles and go slow up to 1.4 second delay. If your picture deletes from the memory card of Olympus SP-590UZ by any reason like human mistake, accidentally file deletion, invalid digital camera handling then you can recover them easily. Olympus SP-590UZ photo recovery software easily supports this digital camera and successfully recovers the lost picture with same picture quality.


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