"The Caplio R7 has an excellent specification and low shutter lag times. It worked well in most outdoor situations and I really like the colours. With a longer than standard wide angle, zoom lens this camera has a lot going for it." Read more

The ADJ button is about as close as you get to manual control on the R7. There's manual focus but the operation is so fiddly it's hardly worthwhile. Aperture control is not an option and you have to rely on the camera to choose the correct one, and sometimes the R7 gets it wrong. Read more

Ricoh Caplio R7

Just 6 months on from the R6 model, the new Ricoh R7 arrives, at first glance with very few new standout features. The increase in resolution from 7 to 8 megapixels doesn't make a lot of difference to your photos, but thankfully the new image processing engine at least ensures that quality remains the same as the R6. The megapixel increase could have resulted in noisier ... Read more

Ricoh Caplio R7

I've been following Ricoh's digital camera development with interest for a number of years. The first digital camera I ever owned was a Ricoh RDC-5000 back in 1999. It was one of the first 2.3-megapixel cameras to be launched, and at the time it was the most compact and powerful digital camera on the market. Of course by today's standards it resembles a housebrick with a lens, and could eat a set of four AA batteries in about 20 minutes, but even then it had some inno... Read more

Ricoh Caplio R7 digital camera

Not quite as easy to use as it should be Read more