Digital Camera News: Two New Ricoh Models, New Imagelink Cameras

Ricoh Caplio RR630 and Caplio R4 Digital Cameras Announced

Unfortunately, Ricoh's cameras rarely make it to the mass market in the US, but they make some high-quality cameras for a very loyal audience.  Ahead of PMA, they have announced two models, the Caplio RR630 and the Caplio R4.

The Caplio RR630 looks like it's meant to be an entry level camera.  It takes shots at 6.1 megapixels, has a 3x optical zoom and a 2 inch LCD.  The camera is powered by 2 AA-sized batteries and and SD slot is available to extend the 16MB of internal memory.  A movie mode and four scene modes (Portrait, Landscape, Sports and Night) are available.

The spec that pops out on the Caplio R4 announcment is its whopping 7.1x optical zoom lens.  They managed to fit this lens into a very compact body.  The lens also has a wide-angle of 28mm (35mm equiv.) and CCD-shift vibration correction.  The camera can take 6 megapixel images and it has a 2.5 inch LCD.  A rechargeable battery is claimed to be good for 330 shots (CIPA standard).  The Macro Mode lets you get as close as 1cm.

Ricoh Caplio RR630 press release

Ricoh Caplio R4 press release

Five New Cameras Support the Imagelink Standard

Five recently announced cameras from three different manufacturers support the Imagelink standard that allows them to be docked with Kodak Easyshare printers.  Kodak introduced the standard in September of 2004 and is pleased to see support from other camera manufacturers.  The cameras that support the standard will ship with a custom dock insert that allows them to plug into Kodak Easyshare Series 3 Printer Dock and future models.

The new cameras that support the standard are:

• Nikon Coolpix S5 and Coolpix S6
• Olympus FE-130 and Olympus FE-140
• Pentax Optio M10

Full press release