Digital Camera Reviews

The Ricoh Caplio R8 comes as an upgrade to the R7, itself launched a mere six months ago. The new model constitutes only a fairly minor upgrade. The key changes are the new, slightly boxier design, the inevitable increase in megapixels (from eight to ten) and a larger 2.7″ screen which now has an impressive resolution of 460,000 pixels.

Ricoh Caplio R8 Digital Camera Reviews:-

Cnet.com.au about Ricoh Caplio R8 Digital Camera Review:- The large lens takes only 2 seconds to spin out and capture an image from start up. After that, the camera takes another 2 seconds between shots. In keeping with the feature-rich theme, there are three continuous modes on the R8: burst mode, and two modes that capture 16 low-resolution frames in 2 seconds, recording them as one large image. Burst mode will merrily trundle on capturing 0.7 frames per second for over five minutes with no sign of slowing or stopping, which is astounding stamina for a compact.

Battery life was also impressive, with the R8 powering through 200 shots in everyday use — including lots of flash use — and 500 test shots. After all this, the battery meter was still more than half full. Strangely, on one occasion the camera crashed — which is a first in our experience — but this may have been a fault with our model.

Dpreview.com about Ricoh Caplio R8 Digital Camera Review:- The R8 comes with a number of interesting features which are rarely seen on the big manufacturers’ cameras. The feature list includes a movable AF/AE target area, 1:1 image ratio option and levels and white balance adjustment in review mode, amongst others.

Digitalartsonline.co.uk about Ricoh Caplio R8 Digital Camera Review:- To focus the longer lens on the 10mp sensor, Ricoh has redesigned the R8 and made it slightly wider and larger than the R7. The button layout on the back is different, but our silver version of the R8 (below) is just plain ugly (it’s also available with black and a two-tone black-&-silver trims). It’s square-ish and has a grey and brown hand grip – and overall the design looks like something out of the 1970s.

The face-detection system is supposed to automatically find faces in your shot and adjusts focus, exposure, and white balance for this. However, it just doesn’t work very well.

Ricoh Caplio R8 Digital Camera Features:-

* Optical sensor:  CCD
* Megapixels: 10 megapixels
* Light sensitivity: ISO 64, ISO 100, ISO 200, ISO 400, ISO 800, ISO 1600
* White balance: Cloudy, Incandescent, Fluorescent, Manual
* Lens aperture: F/3.3-5.2
* LCD display size: 2.7 inch
* Digital zoom: 4.8 x
* Optical zoom: 7.1 x
* Focal length: 4.95-35.4mm
* Storage type(s): MultiMedia Card, Secure Digital Card, Secure Digital High Capacity
* Internal memory: 24MB
* Video capture resolution(s): 640 x 480 pixels