Digital version of the Ricoh GR camera to be announced!

[Beniliam]

If the sensor is 4/3 will be great. I dont like the Panasonic sensor. See the new model Z30, high noise at 100 iso!! Maybe the 4/3 in the P&S digicams will be the most interesting point. With the new canon 5D the 4/3 have difficult future...

 

[Beniliam]

Ricoh Caplio GX8: recommended, the worst puntuation for the image quality...

http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/camera/review/46/page_1.html

 

[akalai]

Just found this webpage, but it's only in Japanese....still you can try babelfish on it...

...and it would apear to be called the GR.

GR BLOG <would seem to be an official Ricoh Company website...?>
http://blog.ricoh.co.jp/GR/archives/2005/09/post_34.html

...also worth looking at DC Watch Impress:

http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/compact/2005/08/30/2192.html

 

[aizan]

i love ricoh. look at the chart on the bottom of this page:

http://www.ricoh.com/r_dc/caplio/gx8/features/features2.html

ricoh isn't part of 4/3, so i think they'll use a 2/3" sony sensor. to avoid that blotchy iso 400, i hope they make the lens f2!!!

 

[akalai]

...I'm really curious to find out what sensor they do go with...either way I hope it can handle ISO1600 (and 3200?)...

Oh well not too long until hopefully ALL the specs will be released.

 

[Beniliam]

I hate the image quality of the Ricoh 🙁 The design its great, but the noise its horrible. Better sensor, less megapixels

 

[bmattock]

Those in the US might want to recall that Ricoh doesn't sell cameras here anymore. There will no doubt be importers if there is demand, but Ricoh exited the camera and digital camera markets in the USA some years ago. They sell fax machines and copiers here now.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[KoNickon]

OK, so do we think this is for real, or a hoax?

 

[Terence T]

Some bits of new info from a source in Ricoh...

Fixed 28mm (35mm equilvalent) lens, no idea what aperture. Based on the GR1 body so expect very similar dimensions.

 

[gabrielelopez]

It's years tht we're waiting these stuffs..finally something different in target and not just in price and megapixels...

knockonwood!!

 

[Phil_Hawkes]

More details are up on the ricoh site now.

http://www.ricoh.com/r_dc/gr/gr_digital/

 

[John Robertson]

If it has a Viewfinder, fine, and not one of these damned stupid things you hold at arms length and peer at an LCD screen!

 

[plexi]

The viewfinder is optional... Too bad it has a supertiny sensor, this is not the superhighquality camera they said they would come up with, just another digicam made to produce quick $$$

 

[John Robertson]

Its called "trading on a name" to catch your money. I love watching people walking about with cameras at arms length, looking like sleepwalkers. 😎)))

 

[Socke]

I just found a great example why a much bigger sensor is needed 🙂

Have a look at Andy Turks second picture over at pnet

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00DYoQ

 

[aizan]

i don't get it.

 

[bmattock]

Is it possible that we're confusing OOF effects (also commonly known as 'DOF effects' or 'selective focus' or 'bokeh') with motion blur? This shot (2nd one down) could be done on a small digicam sensor, I believe. Great shot, by the way, love it. But I think we're looking at motion blur, not DOF effects.

 

[Socke]

Yes, it's motion blur. Probably shot around f4 with a slow shutterspeed. Judging from the shaddows pretty late in the afternoon and outside a desert probably too dark for velvia 50.

May be it's just my twisted mind or the small picture, but the ground is blured from the players shaddow back.

On a second thought, may be it's just the perspective which tricks me here, that's obviously not possible with every P&S camera short of a Fuji Natura 🙂