The new Ricoh R8 Digital Camera is for those people who enjoy taking pictures for both business and pleasure. With this digital camera, you can capture not just images but can portray your feelings and intents as well. This camera, equipped with a refined body and perfect portability, is for enjoying photography everyday. The outstanding service of the Ricoh R8 Digital Camera has been possible because of its unique amalgamation of certain features like:

10 effective mega pixel 1/2.3" CCD for offering highly precise and detailed images
High-definition 2.7-inch, 460,000-pixel LCD makes excellent viewing possible even under strong sunlight.
Macro photography for depicting small subjects three dimensionally. Makes you shoot object from a distance of just 1 cm
Allows shifting the target for both auto focus (AF) and automatic exposure (AE) without moving the camera
28 - 200mm wide-angle optical 7.1x zoom lens in a 22.6mm thick and compact body that fits snuggly in your palm.
5-stage auto-resize zoom that reaches a maximum of 40.5x (equivalent to 1130mm)*. Images can be resized to 8M, 5M, 3M, 1M, and VGA giving a freedom to select any zoom.

The Ricoh R8 Digital Camera is thus, one of those must haves which no one would like to miss. The specifications that are mentioned above are just a few apart from which it has multiple other benefits to offer you. For avoiding shakes the Ricoh R8 is equipped with CCD Shift Vibration Correction function for uncompromised image quality. For reducing blurs in dark rooms it has Auto-HI Mode that offers greater ISO range and faster shutter speed. With high speed response, it takes only 0.6 seconds to reset for the next shot.

Auto or Manual mode to correct the brightness and contrast of the still images, White Balance Compensation to correct the image color tone, Dual Size Recording Function, Skew correction function, PictBridge compatibility, 24MB internal memory, Camera Memo function, Ricoh printer-compatible format printing function etc. are its added features that are simply amazing and quite attractive. For people in Japan this is good news that the Ricoh R8 Digital Camera is available only in Japan till date.