20x optical zoom lens from 26mm wide-angle to 520mm super telephoto range

The SP-565UZ's powerful 26mm wide angle to 520mm super telephoto zoom range represents a culmination of Olympus lens-making expertise. Thanks to its super telephoto power, users can capture the look of concentration on a football player's face as he prepares for a penalty kick, or the smiles of children waiting for the start of a school athletic event. And by combining the power of the 20x optical zoom lens with the digital zoom function, users can enjoy up to 100x zoom (2600mm ^*1) that is powerful enough to capture frame-filling images of the moon. Offering 26mm wide angle capability, the SP-565UZ enables users to take even more dramatic landscapes, group photos, and interiors, and its 1 cm close-up shooting capability enables them to explore the world of macro shooting. With the wide zoom range, the SP-565UZ packs all this performance into a single camera.
To reduce the camera shake and subject motion blurring that tend to be a problem at high telephoto settings, the SP-565UZ is also equipped with Sensor-Shift Image Stabilization and high ISO sensitivity Digital Image Stabilization that offer two-in-one Dual Image Stabilization.

10-megapixel CCD ^*2, Face & Background control, high-speed continuous shooting, and other SLR-class image quality

TruePic III suppresses noise, ensures smooth edge reproduction, and faithfully reproduces even the palest colors, working as a team with the camera's 10-megapixel high-quality image sensor and high-resolution lens to achieve truly outstanding image quality. SP-565UZ also offers the fast continuous shooting speed of 13.5 frames per second ^*3. It's a great way to capture football goals, golf swings, or any other fast-moving subject, and enables users to pick the best shot from the series. In addition, a Pre-Capture^*4 function reduces the number of missed photo opportunities by automatically capturing 10 frames in the camera's buffer memory immediately prior to shutter release.

Face & Background control function

With the new face detection technology enabling up to 16 faces to be detected, SP-565UZ features proprietary Olympus Face & Background Control technology. Unlike face-detection systems that set focus and exposure only for the face, Olympus Face & Background control balances the exposure for both faces and backgrounds. And in backlit situations where the subject's face tends to be underexposed, conventional face-detection systems often overcompensate, causing the background to be overexposed. But with Face & Background control, exposure is adjusted to ensure that both people in the foreground and elements in the background are properly exposed.

New Bird Shooting Mode

The SP-565UZ incorporates a Bird Shooting Mode^*5 as the number of people who go to shoot birds tends to increase. With an optional teleconverter TCON-17 and Bird Shooting setting on the camera, it offers 1200mm focal length^*1 (47x zoom) enabling super telephoto shooting. It also offers the best auto focus movement to focus birds easily and fast shutter speed to decrease blur during the telephoto shooting.

• *1 35mm camera equivalent
• *2 Effective pixels
• *3 Up to 30 frames can be taken at an image size of 2048 x 1536 pixels (3-megapixel equivalent): at a speed of 7 fps, up to 30 frames can be taken at an image size of 2560 x 1920 (5-megapixel equivalent)
• *4 Image size limited to 2048 x 1536 pixels (5-megapixels equivalent) or less
• *5 Image size limited to 2560 x 1920 pixels (5-megapixels equivalent) or less.
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