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Ricoh CX2 -- A Prolific Digital Camera

Ricoh is a Japanese company and they produce electronic products, mainly cameras. After the launch of CX1, Ricoh comes up with this new camera Ricoh CX2. The metal exterior of this camera has a mottled texture that makes easy to hold the camera in one hand.

Ricoh CX2 is a 9 Megapixel compact digital camera with stabilized image. It has a 1/2.3-inch CMOS sensor. The camera dimensions are 101.5 mm (W) x 58.3 mm (H) x 29.4 mm (D). With a 10.7x optical zoom lens, this camera will shoots freely from wide angle to telephoto. It has 28mm wide angle to 300 mm telephoto coverage, so the high power magnification zoom lens can cover wide range of shooting. It has a 3 inch LCD with 920,000 dots inside, which gives excellent brightness and visibility at bright conditions. It has digital zoom up to 4.8x.

The lens is made of 10 elements in 7 groups with aspherical lens of 4 elements and 5 surfaces. The lens has a slow maximum aperture of f/3.5. By using zoom lever, the zoom function can be turned to high speed zoom. This camera takes 2.6 seconds to first shot when it gets power on. The shutter lag measures 0.5 second without pre-focusing and 0.1 second with pre-focusing. The dynamic range mode gets improved a bit with the inclusion of automatic setting.

The enhanced continuous shooting mode allows us to perform continuous shooting at 5 frames per second for still images with maximum number of pixels. With ultra high speed continuous shooting, CX2 shoots 120 images at an interval of one second after the shutter release button gets pushed. CX2 offers a good image quality. The scene modes are portrait, landscape, sports and so on. In M-continuous mode, Ricoh CX2 can capture 5 frames per second at full 9-megapixel resolution up to 15 shots.

Sensitivity is the key for image quality. The ISO sensitivity varies from ISO 80 to ISO 1600. At ISO 800 the noise is obvious and at ISO 1600 noise becomes intrusive. It has an auto focus feature which will be little noisy.

Ricoh CX2 takes 290 shots at battery power with the LCD on dim settings. This camera has a rechargeable battery DB-70. It includes high speed USB connectivity and an AV out. Ricoh CX2 weighs 185g excluding battery. This camera is available in three colors: silver, black and a two-tone pink/grey combination. Ricoh CX2 is easy to handle and nice to operate. This is a great camera for travels and it gives you stunning shots.

dbal
Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:22:44 +0000

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