Ricoh Caplio R1

Ricoh's Caplio R1 is unfortunately the underperformer of the lot in this Labs, with final scores below the 100 average. While the scores below may make it seem like it's a very poor camera, the reality is that the scores highlight the deviations and differences in the products compared. The Ricoh has some excellent colour ranges - in fact the indoor shot featured the best colour-gamut of all and the white balancing for fluorescent lighting was almost perfect - but poor contrast and lighting of all shots mean the camera's performance took a considerable hit. The images had great clarity and sharpness, but there's some misregistration and jaggies present.

That's indoors, though. Outdoors the camera shone, with an extremely clear, properly balanced and contrasted shot. The Caplio R1's lens is excellent too - it captures an extremely wide image with great depth of field. If you're framing large family or group shots, or even just trying to snap as much vista as you can than this camera's lens is the goods.

It's a pity it couldn't really match the other cameras though, as this unit's colours were the best.

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