Ricoh has voiced the brandnew CX3 compress camera, as well as with it has valid which a next hot thing in cameras is the back-illuminated CMOS sensor. As we pronounced yesterday, these sensors have been not backlit — instead they shift a electronics of a chip to a back, and a actual sensor sites now sit without delay behind a micro-lenses as well as filters of a CMOS chip, augmenting light sensitivity. Backlit is, roughly literally, a brandnew black.

Which brandnew 10MP sensor isn’t a usually shift from a CX2, itself usually six months aged. ISO rightaway stretches to 3200 (up from 1600), the video mode now shoots 720p (up from 640 x 480). As well as for hardware, that’s about it. The same 10.7x wizz is there, as is the large 3-inch, 920,000-dot shade. All the alternative changes have been in program, and are incremental, as you’d expect in a camera only six months newer than its predecessor.

The usually brandnew underline is the “scene auto mode”, which guesstimates what we have been snapping as well as set s an bearing mo de thus. Additionally, a in-camera HDR duty has been tweaked, with new options togetherwith one to collect preservation of highlights or shadows. This mode combines two images shot with dissimilar exposures to enlarge energetic range.

If you have a CX2, you might as good waitfor it out for the CX4. If you’re thinking of shopping the $400 camera, this looks excellent, although we’d suggest checking out a Cri terion S90 initial. It’s the same price, and it is Wired.com’s the one preferred compress cam right rightaway (Brian X Chen even bought one to take pictures of his cats).

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