Ricoh Caplio R5 Digital Camera Review
Think Camera has reviewed the 7 megapixel Ricoh Caplio R5 "entry level" digital camera. 'Squint and you'll easily mistake the R5 for an R4 or an R3. While other manufacturers are making cosmetic nips and tucks and adding scene modes that we doubt most people will use, Ricoh seem happy to stick with what they know and slowly turn up the pixel count with every revision. The latest of their “R” range has 7 million pixels. Six months ago that would have been considered extraordinary - right now it's on the high side of entry level.
If you're used to the feature overload of some of the latest designer cameras then you're going to be in for a shock. It has “only” 8 scene modes and two of these are pretty specialised (skew correction and text enhancement). In a time when many cameras have 30 odd modes this may seem a bit spartan but at ThinkCamera we doubt that real world users actually use more than 3 or 4 modes. Ricoh has all the main bases covered with landscape, portrait, night, sport etc so I don't think there is really anything missing here. There's also a handy anti shake mode to keep your pictures sharp. I left this permanently on and all pictures were very good even to relatively slow shutter speeds.'
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