Ricoh R8 Digital Camera
(3 out of 5)
While it has an impressive 28 - 200 mm zoom lens, the R8 suffers from mediocre image quality, a weak flash, and poor low light performance.
Review date: Apr 25, 2008
The Ricoh R8 is an intriguing camera, offering a 28 - 200 mm lens, image stabilization, and an absolutely amazing 2.7" LCD display. Unfortunately, it also has mediocre photo quality, a weak flash, and no image stabilization in movie mode. Neither particularly good nor bad, the R8 scores somewhere in the middle. If you want a camera with a very useful 28-200 focal range, then the R8 is worth a look. If you're willing to give up a little of that range (in one direction or the other), then there are better cameras out there.
| Pros | Cons |
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- Good photo quality for smaller-sized prints
- Great 28 - 200 mm zoom range
- minimum barrel distortion
- Sensor-shift image stabilization
- Stylish, well built metal body
- Stunning, ultra high resolution LCD display
- Some manual controls
- Decent continuous shooting mode
- Customizable adjustment menu, spots on mode dial
- Unique level and white balance compensation features in playback mode
| - Overprocessed images with noise, noise reduction and sharpening artifacts
- banding at higher ISOs
- Redeye a problem
- White balance struggles under unusual lighting conditions
- Low light focusing could be better
- Lens is slow at the wide-angle end
- Weak flash
- LCD nearly impossible to see in low light
- No optical viewfinder
- Image stabilizer not available in movie mode
- Plastic tripod mount
- can't swap memory cards while camera is on a tripod
- Not much built-in memory
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