Review of the Ricoh GR Digital

The GR Digital, we are told by Ricoh, is the first digital camera worthy to bear the illustrious GR name. High praise? The chip is an 8MP 1/1.8inch variety. It delivers images of 3264x2448 pixels in size in JPEG or RAW format The lens is a fixed-focal-length lens, normally only found on camera phones and ‘free gift’ digicams these days. Parsimony is not the reason for the fixed lens, rather it is a matter of quality and heritage. It’s easier to build great fixed-focal-length lenses than great zooms. For the person who wants more flexibility, there’s an accessory 0.75x lens that clips over the main lens to give you a 21mm superwideangle...