Ricoh CX4 Review

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Ricoh CX4 Review

It hit the doorstep, all blushing pink in colour… Ricoh's latest entry into the compact stakes – the Ricoh CX4. This pink is a startling colour and, just to set your mind at peace, it's also available in a more sedate silver or black. Phew!

Seemingly a run-of-the-mill digicam, the CX4 has a few tricks up its digital sleeve.

Ricoh CX4 Features

The 10 million pixel CMOS sensor is imaged by a 10.7x optical zoom lens with a slowish f3.5 maximum aperture. The shots show the full extent of the zoom.

There's no optical viewfinder but the LCD screen is a large 7.6cm display with a high resolution of 920,000 pixels.

Maximum image size is 3648×2736 pixels, or 31×23cm as a print. Movies: A reasonable 1280×720 pixel Motion JPEG clip that runs for 12 minutes can be written to a 4GB SD or SDHC card (Class 6 recommended)… now you can see the reason for space-efficient AVCHD in other cameras!

Continuous stills can be shot at a variety of rates, depending on image size, starting at 5fps and moving up to a burst of 120 pictures shot at 120 fps: the only hangup with the latter is that the images are 640×480 pixel files.

The range of exposure modes is limited: only auto; no shutter or aperture priority but there are a number of scene modes that can help with night portraits, correction of skew in a picture plus others.

Creative Shooting Mode has a number of options: high dynamic rang...

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