Olympus SP-800UZ Digital Camera - Titanium Silver (14MP, 30x Wide Optical Zoom) 3.0 inch LCD

The Olympus SP-800UZ: Big zoom, large resolution, compact

For photographers who think big but don’t want the inconvenience of heavy-duty equipment, there’s the 14 megapixel resolution SP-800UZ digital camera from Olympus’s Ultra Zoom series. This must-have compact packs in a colossal 30x wide optical zoom equivalent to an incredibly broad focal range of 28-840mm*. Also providing greater creative freedom is an integral memory of a whopping 2GB for the capture of both photos and HD movies, plus a large 3-inch, 230k-dot resolution LCD monitor that offers a widescreen 16:9 format display.
The most powerful ultra zoom compact to date not only packs in real features that photographers want, including Dual Image Stabilisation to prevent image blur when shooting at maximum telephoto (zoom) setting and HDMI output for hooking the camera up to an HD TV set, it looks great too in sophisticated, eye-catching Titanium Silver.
Ensuring expandability the SP-800UZ further features a spare slot for a removable SD card, plus the ability to quickly browse a plethora of shots courtesy of its Photo Surfing feature and powerful image tagging software. Ease of use is also guaranteed by an in-camera reference manual, with a quick explanation of a feature or function always on hand. Innovation and versatility in one convenient package: that’s the Olympus SP-800UZ.

Magic Filters: turn the everyday into the extraordinary
Elevating the Olympus SP-800UZ above the crowd and specifically designed to expand the creative potential of digital photography, Magic Filters utilise in-camera image processing technology to effortlessly transform everyday scenes into extraordinary ones. Simple to operate, the filters allow users to create entirely new worlds with their images.
Pop Art: In the tradition of the late Andy Warhol, this effect enhances colours, making them stronger and more vivid. It creates high-impact pictures that express the happy, light-hearted feeling of the pop art style.

Fish-Eye: With its distorted 180-degree perspective, this filter reproduces the dramatic effect of a fish-eye lens. It lends a new perspective to the whole scene with a “round” effect.

Sketch: This filter gives the impression that subjects have been sketched on the fly by an artist just at the moment that inspiration struck. Images are transformed into line drawings for improvised, highly creative results.

Pin Hole: For an ethereal feel, Pin Hole reduces the peripheral brightness of images to make them appear as if seen through a pinhole. Added to this is a unique colour tone that results in a style that has an air of secrecy, visually portraying the feeling of being lost in another dimension or space.

As an additional aid to pointing and shooting, the SP-800UZ’s Advanced Face Detection Technology searches for faces in a composition and recognises them as the main subject. It then automatically puts them in focus and optimally adjusts exposure to create an image that’s sharp in the right places and ideally exposed. Up to 16 faces can be detected.

Another impressive new function is AF tracking. This system tracks a moving subject automatically and keeps it continually in focus for pictures that are optimally focused and exposed. It also memorises subject data, so that even when the subject goes out of frame it can resume tracking when it reappears.

So photographers never miss a trick – or a subject – the SP-800UZ features High-Speed 10fps sequential shooting. This ensures that the camera is an adept a tool for photographing sports events and action sequences as it is for shooting wide-angle landscapes and expansive panoramas.

Ensuring that subjects always look their very best, another helping hand is provided by your very own personal make up assistant in the form of the SP-800UZ’s Beauty Mode. It’s fast too, touching up the appearance of faces even as the shot is being taken, making skin appear smoother, brighter and more youthful.

Meanwhile, the innovative i-Auto (intelligent-Auto) mode uses advanced automatic detection technology to allow the camera to recognise commonly used scenes automatically. They enable the capture of perfect photos without any need for manual settings.

Liven up your memories with the addition of HD Movie Recording with sound. Capture and share video footage with friends and family, then download to your home PC for posterity or set up a show on your HD TV set thanks to the camera’s HDMI connectivity.

Providing two-fold protection, the aforementioned Dual Image Stabilisation helps to avoid image blur caused by camera shake or fast-moving subjects. It combines high ISO values with a CCD-based mechanical image stabiliser, where a built-in gyro sensor detects camera movement and adjusts the CCD accordingly.

Olympus now also offers, an integrated photo browsing and organising software. Using the software on a PC, images can be organised by person, by place or by event. The information tagged in each photo – using face recognition for faces and GPS tagging for places – allows selected pictures to be viewed on a PC.

Scroll Dial: The dial is a new control allowing users to simply turn the dial with the tip of a finger to scroll through images and the new improved user interface.

The SP-800UZ further features USB charging for the ultimate convenience and portability. Connect the camera to a computer and let the battery charge while you save and organise your images. The supplied super-compact AC adaptor also makes it easy to charge the battery while you're travelling.

And of course, selecting Photo Surfing from the Playback menu allows users to browse pictures by date, scene, person, place or image collection in-camera.

So now, thanks to the Olympus SP-800UZ, photographers truly can realise the scale of their ambition.

* Equivalent to a 35mm camera