Olympus is pushing the borders of optical zoom. When you read the specifications of the new Olympus SP-550UZ you may think that the 18x is not optical zoom, but digital zoom. Well you’re wrong! The new CAMEDIA SP-550UZ beats the 10x optical zoom border, with a 7.1megapixel sensor, 5.6x digital zoom that combined with the optical zoom will take you to 100x.
Olympus SP-550UZ comes with approx 21MB internal memory and it supports xD memory cards. The camera supports RAW and JPEG file formats with resolutions up to 3072 x 2304 and can also record movies in VGA 640 x 480 or 320 x 240 at 30fps/15fps. You can also connect it to your PC, very easy via the USB port supported by Windows Vista/XP. Olympus CAMEDIA SP-550UZ comes with 2 ED lens and 4 aspherical lens, a 2.5-inch TFT display, weights 365grams and the size is 116×78.5×78mm. Release date is set for March 2007, and the price is still open, making me think that it will be around US$700 and you can take a look under the pictures for some quotes. Check it up on Olympus.

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