I am in no way a photographic prodigy. I can just about point and click successfully. So I jumped at the chance to test out Ricoh’s CX4 Digital Camera, as it’s pitched at just my level. It has auto pretty much everything as well as some cool features to fiddle with. Read on to find out how it fared…

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The Ricoh GR Digital III is a 28mm fixed focus lens, compact digital camera. The sample I have for review comes with the GW-2 0.75x wide angle lens that gives it 21mm focal length. Selling for over £500.00, this neat little camera from Ricoh is in direct competition with some entry level DSLR cameras from the likes of Sony and Olympus. Given Ricohs reputation for quality, can this compact offer something that the entry DSLR cannot? Read on to see if this is the camera for you.

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The Ricoh CX1 is a replacement for the Ricoh R10, and is available for £220.00 to about £260.00. A rival to the much hyped Panasonic DMC-TZ7, it boasts a 9MP CMOS sensor 7.1x optical zoom, and a raft of functions including face recognition, imagestabilisation, even an electronic level.

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