Ricoh Caplio R7 Reviews: Digital Compact Camera

+ Cheaper and smaller than Panasonic Lumix DMC TZ3. Good wide angle lenses. Nice zoom. A lot of features as for this kind of ultra compact camera. You can take it everywhere as it fits into pocket. Far better than other competitors in this price range. Good value for good price.

- A bit to saturated colours but this is standard in non professional cameras (all new ultra and compact cameras). It is OK but sometimes colours look better than in the reality. For me a minus, for other people it can be a plus.

+ Zoom Range, Very Light & Compact, Low Light Image Quality, Battery Life.

- Battery cover has poor latch

+ 28-200 zoom

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+ Stunnigly quick between shots, very good image quality

- Lens retraction is noisy. Display in the LCD screen is horrible, but the actual picture is good when you transfer to a PC or Laptop

+ Good build quality, nice looks and a superb zoom lens.

- This camera has a lot more to offer than just point & shoot, but it takes a while to learn all about its great features. I'd also say that the buttons are not necessarily the most intuitive.

+ even my girlfriend has been able to take consistently good pictures with it!

- none discovered as yet

+ Excellent image quality, very nice to take pictures with if the camera is working correctly

- Poor design on lens lead to me having to return two different R7's due to faults

+ We had the R4 first and found it so easy to use and the picture quality good that when we needed to replace our camera we bought the R7 and were not disappointed.

- Its quite delicate, especially the lense cover.

+ Fantastic quality pics from a superb lightweight compact camera unit. Quality build with excellent lens and more than adequate pixel .What a lens! Highly recomended.

- None really- would have liked a docking system charger for the unit.

+ We bought the camera for the size of optical zoom and have not been disappointed. The features are great and very user friendly. The price was excellent due to it not being the current model.

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+ Small includes good wide angle facility

- Could be better build (minor point)

+ Good quality lense wide angle to telephoto - Results under most conditions are excellent - colour accuracy and lense definition result in high quality images(using 64 ISO setting) requiring little or no manipulation on the pc. Close up facility is very useful as is the setting for copying text and documents - ideal if you don't have a scanner. Good battery life - quick start up. Compact size easily sits in shirt pocket - can take it anywhere. Anti Shake feature effective.

- Autofocus very occasionally struggles to find a focus point. Flash is not very powerful - need to raise ISO setting for subject distances exceeding 3 metres but camera takes good "available light" images if placed on a firm support or tripod.

+ Fantastic features for the price.
Small, lightweight, exceptional lens.

- A bit fiddly, maybe.

+ small, zoom, screen

- so many features
not sure if it will take photos in snow well

+ Zoom is excellent

- Not bad but I expected to see more difference going from 3MP to 8MP

+ great size camera great size screen easy to use and handy when you cant be bothered to carry your dslr around with you everywhere

- none really even the battery lasts ages and charges fast none at all

+ Easy to handle and carry with excellent zoom

- battery cover little flimsy

+ Very fast start up, and the automatic settings for a "point and press" option work very well for most situations. Has the "soft flash" option too so you don't get that "bright" centre point that you can get on some flashes. The close in macro is very impressive aswell as the very good 7.1 optical zoom.

- The lens cover is a little flimsy and opens very easily, and so it is easy for objects to get at the lens itself. The battery and card door can pop open a bit too easily for my liking too. Would prefer a stiffer catch on the door mechanism.

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- indoor low light pictures not as good as you would like. Otherwise fantastic.

+ excellent features for the money.easy to use superb for amateurs like me who like wildlife close ups.

- none for the amateur.reviews say its noisy.i don't notice it so it can't be too bad.

+ The camera is very compact and easily carried around. The pictures are large and good quality so when reduced look really good.

- At this point I haven't any bad points. I am hoping the zoom will turn out the same quality pictures for long distance photography.

+ Wide angle and zoom range
Menu system
Build
Lens quality

- Limited manual settings
Lens and camera of sufficient quality to merit output in RAW files - only JPEG on this model

+ Great zoom for size of camera
Image quality on PC screen and printouts

- Not the sexiest looking camera out there.
Can take a few shots to get the 'best' shot (maybe I'm still getting use to it as this is improving!)
Image quality looks average - poor when you view on the cameras screen, but actually is really good when printed.

+ 7.1 WIDE Optical Zoom. 1CM Macro. Compact Metal Body. Long Battery Life.

- So far, None.

+ A pocket size camera, of good quality and simple to use.

- Have not found any.

+ Fits in pocket, fantastic pictures every time.

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+ The zoom facility is second to non [when slowed down] excelent purchase.

- none so far

+ Easy to use and the display is clear. The battery seems to last for quite a while aswell.

- The display can have jagged edges on it but the picture it takes is fine. Don't really rate the software that comes with it though for photo editing.

+ everything is on high level

- non

+ Unbelievably good outdoors photos in almost any scenario with almost any setting. The lense and the zoom are fantastic, and its so simple to use even my kids can take snaps. Its was really a close call between this and the Panasonic Lumix TZ3. If you can buy one for the R7 money then it would even closer, but until then this must be the best compact digital camera for the money.

- Indoor photos can take some fiddling with the settings to avoid them being slightly grainy.

+ the zoom 16 x, the design its not really big and so ideal for holidays, really easy to ue, went on holiday day after got it and picked up controls straight away

- when you take a picture on the screen it sometimes looks blurred
also hard to get a good photo in some light

+ All other features good

- Very bad flash

+ Very clear good sized screen.
Excellent battery life.

- Autofocus sometimes not totally accurate but is easily overcome by using different modes.

+ As a gift to my son who is not a keen photographer but wants good quality pictures, the R7 is a good point and shoot, and has the potential to be a more involving camera if the photography bug bites.

- N/A

+ Easy to use and very clear explanations. Very little setting needed.

- A bit noisy and personally too many features that I'll never use.

+ Excellent close-up images. Lots of features .

- No view finder for very sunny days.

+ So quick and easy to use, fool proof!

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