Olympus SP-570 UZ Review

When you rotate the mode dial to the Playback position, the last image captured is displayed full screen, with minimal information. You can see icons indicating xD memory is being used, image quality (Fine), time&date of capture, and the image and folder numbers.

Press the wide angle zoom button to enter the Index playback mode. Depending on the menu setting, the index is 4, 9, 16 or 25 images per page - or the calendar display. This shows your captured images and when they were taken.

The playback image can be magnified in several steps from 1.0x to 10.0x in 1.0x increments, you can then scroll around the image using the 4-way selector. Press the telephoto zoom button to enlarge and the wide angle button to shrink.

Pressing the menu button in play mode brings up this shortcut menu. Here you can start a slide show of your saved images, edit your pictures, choose the DPOF (Direct Print Order Format) settings, use Perfect Fix, enter the Playback Menu, etc.

PLAYBACK submenu:

Protect - protects the selected images from deletion
Rotate - Rotate an image 90° for proper orientation
Voice Memo - Add a sound clip to a saved image
INDEX PLAY - Breaks your movies up into frames

EDIT submenu:

RAW DATA EDIT - Edit and Convert your RAW image files to JPEG format
Resize - Makes image smaller and save as a new picture
Crop - Crop an image and save as a new file
Color Edit - Adjust the colors of an image
Frame - Add a decorative Frame around your image
Label - Allows you to add a pre-defined greeting to an image (Happy Birthday, Good luck etc.)
Calendar - Make an image of a calendar month containing the selected image
Layout - Makes a layout of recorded pictures
Expression Edit - Transform a face in an image and save it as a new picture
Face Focus - Change the largest face in the frame and save it as a new picture

RAW DATA EDIT submenu: Edit the RAW image in-camera and save as a new JPEG file

Image Quality - Choose from any of the standard JPEG image sizes & quality levels
White Balance - Choose Auto, any of the standard presets or manual White Balance
WB +/- - Fine tune the white balance setting
Picture Mode - Natural or Vivid
Sharpness - Choose sharpness setting in the range of -5 to +5
Contrast - Choose contrast setting in the range of -5 to +5
Saturation - Choose saturation setting in the range of -5 to +5

Here you can see the Perfect Fix menu. It will allow you to correct the lighting or remove red-eye from your images and save them as a new file.

The Resize option lets you save an image to a lower resolution.

The crop function lets you crop the image in-camera using one of several pre-defined portrait or landscape templates. The templates can be moved around the image. Depressing the OK button initiates the cropping process, which takes several seconds, and the result is saved as a new image.

Movie clips can be played back on the camera's LCD or a television set via the supplied Audio/Video cable. When viewed in camera, sound is heard through the built-in speakers. Using the 4-way controller, you can fast-forward and rewind the video as well as adjust the volume.