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Introduction
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01.Product Tour
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02.Color
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03.Noise
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04.Resolution
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05.Video
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06.Sample Photos
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07.Playback
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08.Hardware
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09.Controls
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10.Design & Handling
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11.Canon SX1 Comparison
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12.Nikon P90 Comparison
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13.Sony HX1 Comparison
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14.Conclusion
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15.Photo Gallery
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16.Comments
Olympus SP-590UZ
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HardwarePlayback
It has plenty of editing tools and great PictBridge support, although the editing menus are arranged poorly.
Playback Mode
There are two ways of entering Playback mode: while shooting, you can hit the Playback button on the rear of the camera, or alternatively you can change the mode dial to Playback. The advantage to using the dial, one supposes, is that you won’t accidentally return to shooting. Another interesting feature is the Expand button. When you take a series of images in burst mode, they’re stored as a cluster for playback, and when you browse images, they’re treated as one file. Hitting the Expand button lets you view those images one at a time.
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In-Camera Editing (5.75)
The editing controls on the 590UZ are expansive, but disparate. The Playback Menu system splits them into three areas: Edit, Perfect Fix and Beauty Fix. Edit gives you Resize, Crop, Color Edit (black and white, sepia, etc), Calendar (saves the image as a calendar) and Face Focus (detects a face and blurs everything but that). Perfect Fix is where the Redeye Reduction and Shadow Adjust (dynamic range boost) options are found. Finally, the oddest edits are filed under Beauty Fix. Clear Skin applies an overbearing amount of smoothing to the face, Sparkle Eye enhances contrast in the eye, and Dramatic Eye enlarges the person’s eyes, for the anime enthusiast in your life.
Direct Print Options (4.00)
For people who don’t want to go through the process of putting their files on a computer before printing, two options are provided. One is PictBridge, which lets you plug your camera straight into a printer and from there choose print size, number of prints, whether you want to add a border, create an index print, append name and date to your prints or even crop an image down. The other option is to earmark files on your memory card with the number of copies you want, and whether you want the date imprinted using the DPOF protocol, which allows you to order output from a printing service bureau. Compared to the bevy of choices for PictBridge, the DPOF system is a little underwhelming.
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