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Manual Control Options
There is a good pool of manual controls for advanced users to draw upon. Exposure compensation can be adjusted from -2 to +2, each increment representing 1/3 EV step. Users can manually focus after choosing this option in the menus, then using the four-way controller. Full manual exposure control is available, in addition to shutter- and aperture-priority modes.
Focus
Auto Focus
There are a few autofocus options. "iESP Auto" finds the subject of the picture and adjusts focus automatically for that target. Spot focus lets you choose one point on the screen, which the camera will then automatically bring into focus. Area focus is like spot auto focus, only with a larger target area. There's also a face-detect feature.
We played around with auto focus a bit and found images snapped into focus quickly. We had no complaints.
ISO
The SP-565 UZ offers ISO sensitivity up to 1600 for full-resolution shots. There are also options for 3200 and 6400 ISO, but the resolution drops to 5 megapixels.
White Balance
In addition to automatic white balance mode, you can choose from one of six preset options: clear skies, cloudy skies, tungsten, household fluorescents, neutral fluorescents and white fluorescents. There's also a one-touch white balance mode, which lets you set a precise white balance manually. Just aim at a solid white, gray, or black surface and the camera will adjust your white balance accordingly.
Metering
Spot and center-weighted metering are both provided. There's also a third metering option, called "Digital ESP Metering," which meters the center of the screen and surrounding areas separately to find an acceptable overall balanced exposure.
Shutter Speed
Available shutter speeds range from 1/2000 second to 15 seconds.
Aperture
The widest aperture setting is f/2.8 at the closest focus setting and f/4.5 for maximum telephoto.
Image Stabilization
The SP-565 UK uses sensor-shift image stabilization.
Picture Quality / Size Options
Image size options range from a maximum of 3648 x 2736 (10 megapixels) down to 640 x 480 (VGA) in six steps. There is also a single wide-screen option at 1920 x 1080 resolution. Two JPEG quality settings are also available, Fine and Normal, making 14 size/quality combinations -- and even that's not all. For advanced users, RAW shooting, which creates uncompressed files which can be freely edited on a computer without deteriorating the original image quality, is supported by the SP-565 UZ, including RAW+JPEG at all seven levels of JPEG size and both quality settings.
Picture Effects Mode
The SP-565 UZ has quite a few image editing capabilities. For still images you can fix red-eye, adjust light and shadow balance, tweak the color saturation and sharpness controls, and enhance facial focus. You can also resize and crop images, or add a color effect. The camera also has an in-camera RAW edit mode for photos taken in RAW format.
You are also given a few movie editing tools. You can create a scene index of up to nine frames, crop clips, or extract still images.
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