Ricoh Caplio R3 - Expert Reviews

Pros: Quick autofocus and short shutter delay ; compact and lightweight ; well-implemented manual focus

Cons: Subpar, noisy images ; no discrete sensitivity settings below ISO 200 ; no sound with video ; tiny, dim optical viewfinder

Verdict: This compact, inexpensive digicam offers impressively quick shutter response, but its subpar images will prevent snapshooters from making many enlargements.

Verdict: Ricoh's latest digicam product actually takes them back to a device with more purely "camera" functions, with none of the exotic communication or PDA capabilities of some of their recent devices. Rather, the Caplio RR30 is a straightforward 3.2 ...

Review summary: This camera takes great pictures in the automatic mode but comes well-equipped with enough manual controls to satisfy most advanced point-and-shoot users.

Pros: No shutter lag ; 1cm macro mode ; relatively good image captures in the automatic mode ; long battery when used with the optional Lithium-Ion battery

Cons: Software not very user friendly ; comes with only 8MB of onboard memory

Review summary: An impressive lens but has a big problem housing such a lens behind such a flimsy lens cover and that is a big problem considering the price. However the quality of the detail reproduction in the images is excellent and the tones are spot on. The ...

Review summary: Very few cameras can boast of a focal-length range as useful as this one, and not one has done it in a body this small