RICOH Caplio GX100 Reviews

Lovely camera with excellent manual controls and user interface. 24mm eqv lens very useful, and rather unique in its macro capabilities - a really cool combination. Small enough to fit in a medium sized pocket, large enough to handle comfortably. The smal...

Noise, noise, noise. I only use the cam at ISO 80, and even then it's very noisy. For a grainy b&w image one can use ISO 400, but that's really stretching it ; The tele end quite short if one wants that

I bought this camera for its wide-angle lens; it was the only non-DSLR on the market that went to 24mm at the time. For outdoor shots I'm very pleased with it. The ergonomics of the camera are excellent, very well thought-out. I enjoy using this camera...

Low-light shots can be noisy (though I'd rather have noise than blurring/loss of ; detail). Long-exposure shots are unsatisfactory since the camera doesn't black out after ; the shot (save for extremely long exposures): you end up with a shot marred by ;...

I've had my GX100 for a few months now and have given it the full 5 stars for 4 categories. The 4.5 for construction is due to the fact that the lens wobbles a bit as it leaves the camera body, but attaching the LC-1 self opening lens cap helps with that...

Lens wobble doesn't fill you with confidence ; Dust getting into the lens seems to be a fairly common issue ; Other than that absolutley none