Announced aback in March the Ricoh Caplio GX100 is clearly the almsman to the GX8, but it could appropriately able-bodied be declared as a zoom adaptation of the flagship GR-D, as it shares a actual agnate design, affection set and interface. The GX100 has several appearance to set it afar from the majority of 10MP compacts, a lot of interestingly a 3x zoom lens with an unparalleled wideangle capability, accoutrement a ambit agnate to 24-72mm on a 35mm camera. This equates to an access in the askew acreage of appearance of about 20 degrees acreage of appearance compared to the 35 or 36mm abbreviate end of a lot of bunched camera zooms - that's a huge aberration if you're cutting interiors or landscapes. The GX100 is aswell the world's aboriginal agenda bunched to action an (optional) disposable cyberbanking viewfinder, which block into the beam hot shoe and tilts upwards through 90 degrees.
Like the GR-D the GX100 offers 'SLR like' ascendancy acknowledgment to accompanying ascendancy dials, raw abduction (using the 'universal' DNG format) and a top akin of customization options. All this, accumulated with the black architecture and finish, is advised to leave abeyant purchasers in no agnosticism that this is a austere camera for austere users absent an another to an SLR that they can blooper into a anorak pocket. On cardboard the GX100 offers a abnormally ambrosial mix of features, so let's acquisition out how able-bodied it does in practice, starting as anytime with the banderole features:
- 24 to 72 mm high-performance wide zoom lens in a compact body (25mm thick)
- CCD-shift image stabilization (Vibration Correction function)
- 10.01 MP CCD
- Smooth Imaging Engine II Processor
- 7 blade iris aperture
- Tilted and removable electronic viewfinder
- 2.5-inch 230,000 LCD panel with a wide 170° view angle.
- Twin-dial control system
- Raw & JPEG capture
- Optional 19mm equivalent wide converter
- Manual, Program, Program shift AE and Aperture Priority modes
- 1 cm macro mode
- Rechargeable Li-Ion battery or AAA cells
- 4:3, 3:2 and 1:1 aspect ratio options
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