Ricoh CX4
The Ricoh CX4 offers high burst rates of about 5 frames per second (fps) during continuous shooting. The Ricoh CX 4 features a new “night landscape multi-shot” mode that creates clear, beautiful photos of night scenes.
The Ricoh CX4 detects the optimum focus position by shifting the focus to follow subject movement even when the shutter release button is not half-pressed. The CX4 can record HD movies with a frame size of 1,280 × 720 pixels.
Ricoh announces the release of the new CX4 compact digital camera. This new design offers high-power (10.7×), wide-angle 28-300 mm optical zoom and improved image-sensor-shift image stabilization in a workmanlike yet stylish package. The new camera’s evolved image-sensor-shift image stabilization reduces blur on average by the equivalent of about 3.7 EV-3.7 shutter-speed stops-for improved performance under dim indoor lighting and at high zoom ratios. The Ricoh CX 4 also offers a new “subject-tracking AF” autofocus system that automatically tracks your subject, ensuring that photographs are in focus and correctly exposed whenever you choose to release the shutter.
In addition, Ricoh has further developed features for the camera, designed to enhance the photographic experience, including a “night landscape multi-shot mode” that combines four exposures into a single photograph for reduced image noise, and a “creative shooting mode” that brings out the artist in everyone with soft focus, cross process, and toy camera effects. With portability enhanced by a newly-designed body featuring molded curves that make it easier to slip the Ricoh CX 4 camera into your pocket, this compact digital camera represents another advance in Ricoh’s philosophy of designing “A tool you will want to use every day.”
Specifications:
No. of Effective Pixels (Camera):
Approximately 10.00 million pixels
Image Sensor:
1/2.3-inch CMOS (total pixels: approx. 10.60 million pixels)
Lens:
Focal length: f=4.9-52.5mm (Equivalent to 28-300 mm for 35 mm film cameras. With Step Zoom set, focal lengths can be fixed at eight steps: 28 mm, 35 mm, 50 mm, 85 mm, 105 mm, 135 mm, 200 mm, and 300 mm)
F-aperture: F3.5 (Wide) – F5.6 (Telephoto)
Shooting Distance: Normal shooting: Approx. 30 cm – infinity (Wide), approx. 1.5 m – infinity (Telephoto) (from the front of the lens)
Macro: Approx. 1 cm – infinity (Wide), approx. 28 cm – infinity (Telephoto), approx. 1 cm – infinity (Zoom Macro) (from the front of the lens)
Lens Construction: 10 elements in 7 groups (aspheric lens: 4 elements and 5 surfaces)
Zoom Magnification:
Optical: 10.7x zoom (equivalent to 28-300 mm focal length for 35 mm cameras)
Digital: 4.8x up to 51.4x (equivalent to 1440 mm) when used with optical zoom
Auto Resize: 5.7x up to 61.0x (equivalent to 1710 mm) when used with optical zoom
Focus Mode:
Multi AF (contrast AF method) / Spot AF (contrast AF method) / Face-priority multi-AF / Subject-tracking AF / Multi-Target AF / Manual Focus / Fixed Focus (Snap) / Infinity (AF auxiliary light)
Motion Blur Reduction:
Image sensor shift method image stabilizer
Shutter Speed:
Still image: 8, 4, 2, 1 – 1/2000 sec.
Movie: 1/30 – 1/2000 sec.
Continuous Shooting:
Continuous shooting speed: Approx.5 frames/sec. (10M 4:3F shooting time; shooting speed after 12 pictures is approx. 3 frames/sec.)
Continuous shooting capacity: 999 pictures
Exposure Control:
Exposure Metering Mode: Multi (256 segments) / Center Weighted Light Metering / Spot Metering
Exposure Mode: Programme AE
Exposure Compensation: Manual Exposure Compensation +/-2.0EV (1/3EV Steps), Auto Bracket Function (-0.5EV, ±0, +0.5EV)
ISO Sensitivity (Standard Output Sensitivity):
AUTO, ISO100 / ISO200 / ISO400 / ISO800 / ISO1600 / ISO3200
White Balance Mode:
AUTO / Multi-Pattern AUTO / Outdoors / Cloudy / Incandescent 1 / Incandescent 2 / Fluorescent / Manual / White Balance Bracket Function
Flash:
Flash Mode: Auto (during low light and when the subject is backlit), Anti Red-eye, Flash On, Slow Synchro, Flash Off
Built-in flash range: Approx. 20 cm – 4.0 m (Wide), approx. 28 cm – 3.0 m (Telephoto) (auto ISO with a maximum of ISO 1600, measured from the front of the lens)
Flash compensation: +/-2.0EV (1/3EV Steps)
Monitor:
3.0-inch Transparent LCD (approx. 920,000 dots)
Shooting Mode Auto shooting mode / Movie mode / Scene auto mode / Scene mode (Portrait / Discreet Mode / Night. Port. / Night Landscape Multi-shot / Sports / Landscape / Zoom Macro / Pets / Skew Correct Mode / High Sens / Text Mode) / My settings mode / Continuous mode / Creative Shooting Mode (Dynamic Range / Miniaturize / High Contrast B&W / Soft Focus / Cross Process / Toy Camera)
Picture Quality Mode:
F (Fine) / N (Normal)
Recording Media:
SD memory card
SDHC memory card (up to 32 GB), Internal memory (approx. 86 MB)
Recording File Format:
Still Image: JPEG(Exif ver.2.3)
Multi-picture: CIPA DC-007-2009 Multi-Picture Format / Movie: AVI (Open DML Motion JPEG Format compliant)
Compression method: JPEG Baseline method compliant
Other Major Shooting Functions:
Continuous, Self-Timer (operation time: approx. 10 sec. / approx. 2 sec. / custom self-timer), Interval Timer (Shooting interval: 5 sec. – 1 hour, 5 sec. steps), Color Bracket function, Focus Bracket function, AE/AF Target Shift, Histogram, Grid Guide, Electronic Level
Other Major Playback Functions:
Grid View, Enlarged Display (maximum 16x), Resize, Level Compensation, White Balance Compensation, Trim, Flag, Slideshow, DPOF Setting
Interface:
USB 2.0 (High-Speed USB) Mini-B, Mass storage compatible/ AV Out 1.0Vp-p (75?)
Video Signal Format:
NTSC, PAL switchable
Power Supply:
Rechargeable Battery: DB-100 x1
Size:
Dimensions: 101.5 mm (W) x 58.3 mm (H) x 29.4 mm (D)