Ricoh CX3 Review

The Ricoh CX3 is a cast new point-and-shoot bunched camera featuring a 10.7x, 28-300mm zoom lens in a physique beneath than 3cms thick. Successor to the 6-month old CX2 model, the Ricoh CX3 incorporates a 10 megapixel back-illuminated sensor and an added babble abridgement activity which promises to advance angel superior if cutting in low-light scenes. Other improvements from the CX2 archetypal cover the accession of 720p HD video recording, top and low luminance antecedence settings for the Activating Ambit mode, a Arena Auto cutting approach for beginners, and what every agog columnist has been cat-and-mouse for, the new Pets arena mode. The Ricoh CX3's key appearance contrarily abide the aforementioned as its predecessor, namely a 3 inch HVGA LCD awning with 920K dots, Smooth Imaging Engine IV angel processing engine, CCD-shift beating alteration arrangement to advice abstain camera-shake, face recognition, 1cm macro mode, Activating Ambit approach which takes two photos at altered exposures and combines them to actualize a individual angel with broadcast activating ambit (up to 12 EV), and an cyberbanking akin to advice ensure beeline horizons. Multi-target Auto Focus takes seven after images with altered focal distances, acceptance you to accept the angel that you prefer, while the Multi-Pattern Auto White Antithesis approach detects altered ablaze sources in the arena and sets the actual white antithesis for anniversary one.

Ease of Use

The architecture of the Ricoh CX3 is around identical to the antecedent CX2 model, so a lot of comments that we fabricated about that camera will be again here. It weighs and measures absolutely the aforementioned at 185g and 101.5mm (W) x 58.3mm (H) x 29.4mm respectively. This is a bunched agenda camera that calmly fits in the approach of your hand, and you absolutely will not apprehension accustomed it in a trouser/shirt abridged or a handbag. The CX3 is accessible in either silver/lilac, grey/pink or a added austere atramentous - Ricoh provided the closing for our review. It retains the aforementioned rather understated, awakening attending of antecedent R-series cameras. As anon as you aces it up, the Ricoh CX3 feels as absolutely made, aesthetic and bent as its predecessors, with a textured artificial anchor breadth on the foreground and the basal of the lens ascent breadth is cut off in band with the basal of the camera, which still looks rather strange.

The Ricoh CX3's 10.7x zoom lens offers a 28-300mm focal ambit which places the CX3 in the now accepted "travel zoom" class of cameras, although several rivals now activity 12x and even 15x lenses in a analogously sized body. If the lens is absolutely extended, the camera measures over 8cm in depth, but thankfully it retracts absolutely aback into the physique if it is angry off. The 28-300mm ambit is actual versatile, accoutrement aggregate from wide-angle landscapes to close-up activity photos. The best apertures are admirable abundant at f/3.5 at wide-angle and f/5.6 at telephoto. Helpfully the zoom apparatus becomes quicker as you advance through the range, a accurate affection that absolutely cuts down on cat-and-mouse for the camera to do your bidding.

The Ricoh CX3 alone has 10 alien controls in total, abrogation affluence of allowance for the ample 3 inch LCD awning that dominates the aback of the camera. The CX3's awning has a commendably top resolution of 920K dots, and it absolutely shows, getting acutely bluff and brighter than cameras with accepted 230K dot screens. Both argument and images absolutely appear animate on a breath-taking affectation that's one of the best of any camera that we've anytime reviewed.

There's a DSLR-like approach punch on top of the CX3 which lets you baddest from the Camera, DR, Continuous, Scene, new S-Auto and Movie options, additional two settings alleged MY1 and MY2 which acquiesce you to configure the CX3 for altered uses and accommodate quick admission to anniversary agreement (the camera remembers the settings if it's angry off). The S-Auto approach replaces the antecedent Easy cutting approach and is aimed durably at beginners. Much like agnate systems on battling cameras, if the Ricoh CX3 is set to S-Auto it automatically identifies the blazon of arena getting photographed and selects the adapted arena approach (portrait, sports, night portrait, landscape, nightscape, macro mode), advantageous if you're not abiding which approach to aces yourself. Like a lot of automated systems, it's not infallible, but does anxiously aces one of the aloft scenes a lot of of the time.

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