The Ricoh GR Digital camera IV is a brand brand new compact camera which has a fixed 28mm lens that’s directed firmly at the significant photographer. Virtually similar in design towards the two-year old GR Digital camera III model, this latest version includes a brand new Hybrid auto-focus system, picture processing engine, sensor-shift impression stabilization, a sophisticated optical filter as well as a higher-resolution LCD screen. The 28mm set focal length lens has a maximum aperture regarding f/1.9, the GR ENGINE IV graphic processor promises enhanced image quality and velocity, and the LCD screen is a high-resolution 3 inch style with 1.Twenty three million-dots. At the heart of the H Digital IV is really a “high-sensitivity” 1/1.75-inch CCD sensor with 10 megapixels, images could be recorded either while JPEGs or in the Adobe DNG Natural format, there’s a pop-up expensive and an external hotshoe which may accept a flashgun or the elective electronic viewfinder, and complete creative control over direct exposure is available.

The GR Digital IV features the identical 10 megapixel “high-sensitivity” sensing unit as the one utilised by the GR Electronic digital III, which apparently improves low-light photos — you can judge on your own on the Image Quality along with Sample Images pages. There’s the usual range of Fine and Standard JPEGs, but Ricoh have compromised a march on the competition by providing the RAW mode establishing, joining an exclusive team of compact camcorders like the Canon Powershot G12, Panasonic DMC-LX5 and Olympus XZ-1. Even better, the Organic format that they have decided on it not a proprietary one, but Adobe’s DNG file format, which means that the Ricoh GR Digital IV’s files tend to be instantly available in