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'ISO 1,600 images are rough at 5x7, with very grainy shadows, and a more pointillist painting feel throughout, which doesn't get much better at 4x6.'

'At ISO 1,600 detail completely falls apart, with heavy chroma noise, very bright noise pixels and other visible noise reduction artifacts.'

'I left out the ISO 3200 and 6400 samples from this comparison since they're so utterly bad.'

'As with most compact digital cameras, higher ISOs tend to suffer from noise and image detail loss.'

'When powered down, the Olympus SP-550UZ is a squat, bulky looking camera, with an appearance very similar to competing Canon and Sony models.'

'lack of sharp focus.'

'manually enabled popup flash is fairly weak - maximum flash range (in auto ISO mode) is just short of 15 feet; not very impressive for a camera with a 10X zoom.'

'Recycle time between shots is an unimpressive 3.6 seconds and nearly 4.9 seconds with flash.'

'Unfortunately, without a video out port, users will only be able to export video and still images through either the memory card or the USB port located on the right side of the camera.'

'its 1.5-inch LCD seems puny in the current market.'

'Low light focusing performance was poor'

'regardless of whether the Z10 was badly bullied as a prototype, there's no excuse for a grown-up camera carrying a design joke this far.'

'Low light focusing performance was poor -- guess that Rapid AF sensor isn't so hot for those conditions.'

'The first in this series, the Minolta DiMage 7 , took a poky 4.8 seconds to boot up and an unimpressive 4 seconds to recycle between shots.'

'not the fastest camera'