Things have really gotten competitive in the megazoom digital camera market this year, with almost all the big names in imaging competing for a slice of one very hot pie. The Olympus SP-800UZ has one of the most powerful lenses of the bunch, offering an incredible 30x zoom range that reaches all the way out to a jaw-dropping 840mm-equivalent telephoto. Beyond this attention grabbing optic, Olympus has clearly tried to differentiate its flagship megazoom from the competition. To achieve this, it's gifted the Olympus SP-800UZ with a sturdy metal body, rather than the more commonplace plastic. Unlike competing megazoom digital cameras, the Olympus SP800UZ also forgoes an electronic viewfinder, in the interests of reducing body size. A 14 megapixel imager...
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