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Olympus was one of the first manufacturers to realize that building digicams around small sensors allows much longer zooms to be offered without the bulk of the camera becoming unmanageable. With its “Ultra zoom” range, starting back in 2000 with the 2.1MP C-2100UZ, Olympus almost single-handedly created a niche for digicams offering 10X optical zooms in relatively compact formats. Over the years, that niche has developed into a popular and fiercely fought market segment.Realizing that the utility of a 10X zoom was great enough to make many users overlook the compromises that such a large zoom range entails, Olympus decided to investigate whether customers would put up with still more compromises if the zoom range was even greater. The result was the SP-550UZ with its astonishing 18X zoom range.

Features
* 18X optical zoom, giving a 27mm-486mm equiv. range
* Dual IS, combining sensor shift technology with high ISO settings
* 8.0 million pixel sensor
* ISO 6400 at 3.1MP
* ISO 3200 at full resolution
* RAW mode
* Face detection
* Face detection-combined In-camera red-eye reduction
* Rapid continuous shooting (up to 15fps at 2MP)
* 25 scene modes

olympus sp560uz Reviews From amazon

First let me share that I purchased this camera because of the recomendation of a local professional protographer and haven’t been sorry. The manual controls are excellent and the auto features the most impressive I’ve seen on cameras running many times its price. For example: face detection and smile detection works well, I love the manually aimed focus on a single user directed point in the viewing field, while remaining in auto focus mode. Through glass mode is of questionable value and works poorly as expected. The true optical zoom outclasses everything else right now although I expect Canon to quickly match or slightly exceed the 18 times zoom.

olympus sp560uz Reviews From photographyreview

I think that is normal. I am not familiar with the model that you have but every other digital camera I have ever owned has done this. It shows you the picture but then the LCD will go off after a few seconds of showing you the image or until you take another shot.

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