Seems that the previously rumoured Ricoh GXR will be coming in December. It’ll be smaller than even the slimmest Micro Four Thirds out now and feature a system that’ll make it the first to allow both interchangeable lenses and sensors.
From the aptly named Photo Rumors blog comes word today that Ricoh is all but ready to reveal a premium, interchangeable camera on or around November 10.
Not content to let Canon steal all the camera news glory today, Ricoh has today released the 10.7x zoom CX2 snapper.
Every day for the past 17 years, Dan Hanna has taken two photos of himself with a custom-built rig and a couple of Ricoh film cameras. Now you can watch the video.
Even if most high dynamic range photos on Flickr make you want to barf, it’s still incredibly useful for creating images that match what the naked eye sees. The Ricoh CX1 does HDR images in-camera.
Ricoh’s previous-gen R8 digital cam only hit the streets back in February, and it’s now being replaced by the new R10. The R10 has a larger 3-inch screen, 7.1x optical zoom, and a 10-megapixel CCD sensor that can shoot at ISO80 to ISO1600. There’s also four-person face recognition, CCD-shift anti-shake compensation, a 1-cm macro mode and lots of “easy” presets that make the camera do automatic leveling of contrast and sharpness in the images it takes. It’s out in black, brown and silver September 5th in Japan at first for around US$450. [DCWatch]
With 12 megapixels of creamy goodness, Ricoh’s GX200 is an upgrade of last year’s GX100. The Smooth Imaging Engine III processing engine gives you better noise reduction, there’s a 2.7-inch, 460,000-pixel HVGA LCD screen, an electronic level function for horizontal and vertical shooting, and 5fps continuous RAW mode. Cost in the UK is either US$700 or US$800, depending whether you get the VF-1 electronic viewfinder. Bonus pic and interminably long press release are below.
