Product Type: Ricoh digital cameras

Description:Ricoh CX1 - 7.1x Optical Zoom - 3in LCD Display - 9.29 MPixels - Smooth Imaging Engine - Cmos - 4 Frame Per Second Continuous Shooting / While high dynamic range is only recently getting some attention in the gaming and display worlds for decades its been a ... more

Ricoh CX1 ... tool of serious photographers wanting eye-popping exposures. Now Ricohs gone and offered it to the masses with its latest consumer digi cam the CX1 creating a dynamic range double shot mode that takes two images nearly simultaneously with different exposures then combines them automatically to present the best bits of both. It features a 9 megapixel CMOS sensor fronted by a 7.1x (28-200mm) lens and backed by a 3-inch LCD. VGA videos are a bit disappointing these days but 120 frames per second can be captured at that resolution which is good news for slow-mo junkies.

Newest Review: ... a pin and so far it hasn't stuck again. But the mechanism of the lens cover feels pretty fragile, so I've since shelled out ... more

 ... for the official Ricoh case (not cheap) to make sure it's protected. Some of the shots I've taken with this are as good as anything I can do with my much bigger 'serious' camera - the difference is that this is small enough to keep with me most of the time, so I'm getting images that just wouldn't have happened because I wouldn't have bothered taking a big camera with me. There are cheaper cameras available and cameras with more features, but this does everything I want and seems to do it well....more