The Ricoh R8 is an expensive camera, but it does offer a unique specification and very distinctive style. Build quality is superb, and the design of the body and control interface makes it a real pleasure to use. Performance is also very good, the 28-200mm lens is excellent, but sadly image quality is simply not as good as it could have been, thanks mainly to the inexplicably tiny 10MP sensor. To be blunt, the older R7 is a better, smaller, cheaper camera.
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