Thursday, November 12, 2009

Ricoh GXR


Interesting concept:

Ricoh GXR Special Site

Large 23.6mm x 15.7 mm CMOS sensor
Fixed 50 mm equivalent lens
1280 x 720 MJPEG @ 24 fps

There's no info yet on the movie quality and if it allows full manual control when filming.
A clue comes from the specs where about 16 min video per 4 GB are mentioned. This translates to just about 4 MB/s or 32 Mbits/s. It seems movie quality will be similar to the Olympus E-P1.

According to dpreview.com movie capture is available in the SCENE setting and "offers only very limited control over settings such as exposure - you can't, for example, select aperture or ISO sensitivity." That's sad but you could buy it now and wait for a dedicated stills/video module ;-)