Olympus SP-570 UZ - Test shots - Detail and lens performance

A range of general test shots are shown over the next two pages. In some cases, the full size image has been reduced for bandwidth purposes, and a crop taken from the original full resolution image has been placed below it to show the overall image quality.
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The wide angle end of the lens shows pretty obvious barrel distortion.
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This is the widest setting, notice the curvature of the horizon (and the over exposure).
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This is at the longest setting of 520mm. It's difficult to get sharp hand-held images at this length.
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Another image at 520mm
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This 100% crop of the above image shows the chromatic aberration.
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