DPExpert has reviewed the 8 megapixel Ricoh Caplio 500G wide and they write - “is a tool — there is no other way to describe it. It’s not pretty but it’s certainly tough. And it has been well thought out for a particular customer who wants a camera that can stand abuse and still produce good pictures.”

The 500G’s features include:

• 3X optical zoom
• 28-85mm equivalent lens
• Camera-shake blur reduction
• 2.5-inch screen
• Optical viewfinder
• ISO of 1600

Like this: The Ricoh 500G is made for a particular niche market which includes firefighters, builders, engineers and architects and, we assume, explorers and white water rafters. It even has a mode for correcting photos of documents so that they are straight, with edges aligned, in the final image. It has the most amazing macro facility that photographs subjects as close as 5mm from the camera.

Dislike that: The write time to the SD card is slow.

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