Ricoh Caplio R3 Camera Review
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The Ricoh Caplio R3 is a pocket-sized compact with a 2.5in LCD monitor, 7.1x optical zoom, image stabilization and a 5 megapixel CCD. With great technical characteristics and an excellent look this camera is a sure hit among photographers. R3 is solidly made and looks stylish and contemporary. Available in either a black or a silver finish, the camera though not super-slim, thanks to the extra space needed for the big zoom lens, but it is by no means a bulky camera. In the first impression it appears to be square, but a closer look reveals that it has a great design and feels good in the hand.
The other controls on the back of the camera are well laid out and clearly labeled. A three-position slider switch selects between shooting still, movie clips or sound recording. The playback button lets you look at the pictures you’ve taken, and the “ADJ” button gives quick access to exposure compensation, and two other functions. White balance and ISO setting are the defaults, but they can be changed for other often-used menu adjustments. The D-Pad has double functions on all four directions, including instant review, flash modes, and macro and scene modes. The R3 has an extremely impressive macro mode, able to focus down to just 1cm from the lens, possibly the closest macro distance of any consumer digital camera on the market. In its screen modes the camera has the usual modes like portrait, sports, landscape and night landscape. Apart from that R3 also has a few unusual features like the wonderfully clever skew correction mode, which makes it possible for you to photograph pages of text at any angle. By using this technique the camera then automatically detects the edges of the page and corrects the perspective. Ricoh Caplio R3 also has a zoom macro mode. This mode in the camera allows super-macro photography of very small objects at close range by enlarging them using digital zoom. Apart from this the camera has high sensitivity mode, which helps with low-light shooting by enhancing the monitor display. Nonetheless the camera has low light focusing, which is one of the R3’s few weak points. To sum up the performance of this camera is great and this is a good investment.
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