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Ricoh Caplio R3

Author	Cliff Smith
Published	25th Oct 2005
Manufacturer	Ricoh
Price	£186.38 (Exc VAT)
as reviewed	£219.00 (Inc VAT)
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At the minimum setting of 64 ISO the R3 produces a clean crisp image with no trace of noise at all. Lovely.

At 100 ISO there is some slight colour speckling visible, but on the whole the shot is clean and quite printable.

At 200 ISO the colour noise is a lot more noticeable, some fine detail has been lost and colour saturation is beginning to fade.

At 400 ISO the image is now very noisy, with large patches of random colour noise in shadow areas. This is a setting for low light emergencies only.

At the maximum 800 ISO the image is so noisy my flatmate just popped his head round the door and asked me to turn it down.

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