Ricoh Caplio R30 Digital Camera

Ricoh announced the release of the Caplio R30 compact digital camera featuring a 5.7x optical wide zoom (28-160 mm in 35 mm camera format) in a trim body only 26mm thick. Inheriting the Caplio R3's unique Double Retracting Lens System, the R30 houses a 5.7x (28-160 mm) wide-angle, high powered zoom lens in its compact, 26 mm thin body. Designed to have part of the lens assembly protruding from the camera cone during lens storage, the wide-angle, high-powered zoom lens is more compact. In addition to the wide zoom, the camera achieves increased photographic possibilities, anywhere, by employing an enhanced macro function--Ricoh's specialty--and anytime by extending the quick response function, a conventional weakness of digital cameras, which contributes to the concept.