Olympus SP550-UZ

[drivembig]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has any experience with the Olympus SP-550UZ. I have found one at a really good price with the Olympus Pt-037 housing. The housing has never been used and the camera is in great shape. Both are selling for 389.00 dollars.

Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Jonathan Bird]

I'm sorry to say that I know nothing about the camera. We have a few experts on the compact cameras here on the site. Hopefully one will chime in.

Jonathan

[Sharp]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has any experience with the Olympus SP-550UZ. I have found one at a really good price with the Olympus Pt-037 housing. The housing has never been used and the camera is in great shape. Both are selling for 389.00 dollars.

Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I dont know also about Olympus cameras. I have always used Canon compact cameras.

The price 389$ is so cheap that I recommend you to buy it and start to shoot. Many of my friends have different Olympus compact cameras and they have got good results, so go for it.

[tarczy]

Check out the Digital Photography Review of your camera by clicking here (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/olympussp550uz/). Generally, the camera was only rated "above average" and one of the cons was purple fringing and chromatic aberration . . . something I experienced with my old Olympus 5050. Seriously . . . it drove me nuts. :eek:

[drivembig]

I went ahead and bought the camera. Since the underwater housing alone was going for 275.00-389.00 on ebay and the camera was going for around 250.00 alone. I figured that I couldn't go wrong with this. So far I am happy with it. The automatic setting do well in well lit areas, but in dim lighting it's pretty touchy. I had to use manual settings and set the focus, shutter speed, and aperture myself. But, overall after figuring out what to set it on it takes pretty good photos.

I haven't had a chance to take it to open water yet, only in the pool. But, after working out the settings I have high hopes of some good pics. I will have to get at least 1 strobe for it, maybe 2 as the built in flash doesn't do very well. I do have to say that as far as the quality of the product the camera feels very solid and the underwater housing is awesome. Thanks for your help.

[sorvju-f]

I went ahead and bought the camera. Since the underwater housing alone was going for 275.00-389.00 on ebay and the camera was going for around 250.00 alone. I figured that I couldn't go wrong with this. So far I am happy with it. The automatic setting do well in well lit areas, but in dim lighting it's pretty touchy. I had to use manual settings and set the focus, shutter speed, and aperture myself. But, overall after figuring out what to set it on it takes pretty good photos.

I haven't had a chance to take it to open water yet, only in the pool. But, after working out the settings I have high hopes of some good pics. I will have to get at least 1 strobe for it, maybe 2 as the built in flash doesn't do very well. I do have to say that as far as the quality of the product the camera feels very solid and the underwater housing is awesome. Thanks for your help.

I had also in past Oly WZ 5060 ( as very many others ). To develope the quality and use, I added to my set external flash, macro and wide anle lens which could be change UW.

Jukka