The Ricoh Caplio GX100 digital camera is a dream come true for some photographers out there. It is compact and delivers wide zoom range, including a true wide-angle. Combine this with the high resolution and the RAW image storing, add increased wide-angle, pixels and optical zoom with image stabilization when compared with the DIWA Gold Award and you can see that the above mentioned statement is not fantasy. The Ricoh Caplio GX100 is on the bench for review.The first thing that can be noticed with this digital camera stands in the wide-angle zoom range that starts at 24 mm (35 mm equivalent) with the tele-range going up to 72 mm. If you want an even wider angle you can add an adapter that will make it possible to reach 19 mm. Ricoh Caplio GX100 also features optical image stabilizer, helping users to take even better pictures.

Of all the Ricoh digital cameras, the Caplio GX100 is the first one that features a 10 megapixel CCD image sensor. The product now matches the competition and makes the camera paper size printing specification to reach an A2 sheet of paper if photographed at 24 mm. This is more than enough when it comes to this possibility in a digital camera.

Nowadays digital cameras ignore the RAW format but Ricoh does not. The Caplio GX100 thus becomes an interesting prospective for a photographer that really wants ultimate control over the image. This camera uses DNG, Adobe’s open standard. This is a good move by Ricoh because it should make it possible for opening with most Raw converters instead of developing the company’s own RAW format. A simple combination of Adobe Photoshop and the newest Camera Raw plug in and working on the image will be no problem whatsoever.

This 10 megapixel Ricoh Caplio GX100 digital camera comes with a compact casing. The company chose metal frames and this allows stability to become a reality and strengthens the wide-angle design while making the product as one of the few cameras of its king that is not made out completely of synthetics. GX100 comes with the optional wide-angle converter mentioned above and a special viewfinder. If you need one, you can purchase a stick-on viewfinder. The reason behind this strange compromise comes because there is no space for an optical viewfinder in the camera. The electronic viewfinder image is excellent and you can also turn the viewfinder to any angle you desire.