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Ricoh CX3 Digital Camera - Black | 
| Brand: Ricoh
Category: Photography
Buy New: £222.71
as of 9/9/2010 14:58 CDT details
New (9) Used (1) from £222.71
Seller: soteluk
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 881
Media: Electronics
Batteries Included: Yes
Optical Zoom: 10
Display Size: 3
Maximum Resolution: 10
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.4 x 3.2
MPN: 4961311856969
Model: 175544
EAN: 4961311856969
ASIN: B0036WZAKE
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 10,0 MP 10,7 X OPT. SD / SDHC |
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Product Description
The Ricoh CX3, a new digital camera featuring a high magnification 10.7x (28-300 mm) optical wide-angle zoom lens, a back-illuminated CMOS sensor, and an enhanced noise reduction function. With a back-illuminated CMOS sensor and a noise reduction function incorporating the algorithm used on the GR DIGITAL III (introduced August 2009), the new CX3 has dramatically improved image quality performance when shooting low-light scenes. When the camera is pointed at the subject, the new "scene auto mode" will switch to the optimum scene mode. Since the camera automatically changes to the optimum shooting settings, you can enjoy easy shooting of beautiful photographs. Shooting has never been more enjoyable. With many other function enhancements, such as the addition of a 1280 × 720 pixel HD movie function, the addition of high & low luminance priority settings for "dynamic range double shot mode" dynamic range expansion effects, and the addition of the "pets" scene mode. The CX3 compact digital camera takes another step forward in realizing the Ricoh design concept "A tool you will want to use every day."
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| Customer Reviews:
CX3 is a joy to configure, hold and use.Image quality at the wide end is excellent, inferior at the mid and long end of the zoom August 29, 2010
C. Watts (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Introduction
The Ricoh CX3 was announced on February 3, 2010. This camera fits into the category of what is now known as "travel zoom" in the compact digital camera market. Typically these cameras sport a 10x to 15x zoom capability in very compact and sleek bodies. The focal length is normally from reasonably wide to telephoto. Of course, Ricoh have two CX models prior to this upon which the CX3 builds.
Design and Build Quality
Ricoh are pretty unique in providing excellent grips for their compact cameras. While some find the grip on the CX3 a little too textured, I felt the balance is just right between practicality and comfort. The CX3 is a really well built camera and one that you just feel like using. The black metal casing gives the camera an understated and professional appearance. Ricoh have a fantastic menu system that is very "business like" and does away with oversaturated colours and lack of logical layout that condemn most digital camera menu systems. I feel the multiple aspect ratios and the way they are implemented is very well done. I have always appreciated the step-zoom feature in Ricoh cameras and the ability to enable/disable this feature is really useful AND this setting can be saved to the two MY1/MY2 custom setup dials. The CX3 does not feature manual, aperture, or shutter priority control and does not record RAW images. However, you can really customize the setup of the camera to exactly how you like to photograph - albeit within the constrains of compact cameras - and save these settings to the MY1/MY2 settings and activate your preferences with a simple turn of the mode dial.
Image Quality
This is where I found the CX3 to be wanting. The main problem I found with image quality was a lack of sharpness and resolution straight out of the camera. However, this was not consistently so. Yes, this is pretty much typical at the long end of the zoom and that is a common characteristic of "travel zoom" compacts. Still, even at the mid zoom I found edge sharpness of subjects to be very soft giving subjects a look of having been "pasted in" to the scene being photographed. Yet, at the wide end I found the image quality to be very fine indeed with excellent exposure. The dynamic range feature is limited by the fact that two images are taken of a scene and then merged. This therefore excludes subject and scenes that have any movement. What I did find outstanding was the "high-contrast B&W mode" that is available as one of the 13 scene modes. To achieve what this scene mode does straight out of camera normally involves specialized software and much post-processing.
Conclusion
The CX3 is a joy to configure, hold and use. The image quality at the wide end is excellent but inferior at the mid and long end of the zoom. The lack of manual control and RAW hold the camera back somewhat. But then, this camera is perhaps not aimed at that kind of photographer. The "high-contrast B&W mode" is unique and not available in some of the higher end Ricoh compacts and thus a stand out feature. On August 19, 2010, just six months after the release of the CX3 Ricoh have released the CX4. Thus, potential buyers of the CX3 might well wonder what they would gain by going for the CX4 with it's inherent higher price!
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