Olympus SP-590UZ

	Sample Photos
	Video	Page 7 of 16	Playback

Sample Photos

In the following sample images, clicking on the larger image will download the full resolution original. Each photo is accompanied by three actual-size crops.

Landscape Sample
			ISO: 64 shutter speed: 1/320 aperture: f/5.6 focal length: 4.6mm Shot outdoors, with sunlight white balance. The building and lamppost both show evidence of distortion.
			The crops also show some a decent amount of detail is retained, but there is some chromatic aberration.

Macro Sample
			ISO: 64 shutter speed: 1/200 aperture: f/2.8 focal length: 4.6mm Using macro mode on the face of this statue allowed for razor sharp focus.
			The depth of field is pleasantly shallow at maximum aperture, and the background nice and soft.

Color Sample
			ISO: 64 shutter speed: 1/2 aperture: f/8 focal length: 7.87mm This shot, taken at the narrowest aperture, gives a good feel for how the camera's automatic white balance deals with complex light sources, and how accurately it reproduces colors that we're familiar with.
			In our testing, the 590UZ had some trouble with blues and yellows.

Low Light Sample
			ISO: 1600 shutter speed: 1/13 aperture: f/3.4 focal length: 8.19mm This low light shot was taken on the highest full resolution ISO setting. Unsurprisingly, it is very noisy.
			At least some detail was retained in the flowers, but only by considerably under-exposing. The camera had difficulty metering and focusing in this situation.

Still Life Examples

Click on the images below to see full size version of our still life.

	Still Life Comparisons
	Olympus SP-590UZ	Canon SX1	Nikon P90	Sony HX1
ISO 64 (80 for Canon)
ISO 100 (125 for Sony)
ISO 200
ISO 400
ISO 800
ISO 1600
ISO 3200
ISO 6400

NOTE: The images above are not used in our testing or scoring, but are included here to show real-world examples of the differences between cameras at the various ISO settings.

Canon SX1	Nikon P90	Sony HX1
See how the competition stacked up against the Olympus SP-590UZ