Ricoh R8

With the Caplio R7 rating as one of our favourite point-and-shoots of last year, the Ricoh R8 has a lot to live up to -- and it does. While you don't have many manual controls, this retro-style compact is feature rich and certainly tweakable, appealing to...

Endlessly tweakable; clean, accessible design; large screen; wide angle and large zoom lens

No full manual control

The Ricoh R8 may lack traditional manual controls, but it's still endlessly customisable even with a dead simple button and menu layout. The large screen, wide angle lens and long zoom make it worthwhile twiddling the menus to overcome some image issues.

The Ricoh R8 is a 10 megapixel camera with a 7.1x optical zoom lens. The lens is wide angle and the R8 also offers image stabilisation, plus a large and clear 2.7 inch LCD screen. Picture quality is good in most situations and the camera has a stylish, re...

LCD screen clarity - novel design - sharpness

Skin tones in some portrait shots

This is a retro style camera with a wide angle lens. Picture quality is good and I like the camera. It is a bit bigger than pocket sized, but it does have its own distinctive style.

The Ricoh R8 is a rather pleasant camera to use. It's equipped with a good zoom and superb LCD. Unfortunately, image quality is not up to par with the rest and in this product range we prefer the Panasonic TZ5.