Ricoh Caplio 400G Wide
Review Date: 22nd June 2004
Image Quality
All of the sample images in this
Review were taken at the highest quality setting of F2048,
which gives an average image size of around 1.3Mb.
Noise
There are 4 ISO settings available on the Caplio 400G Wide,
which you can select at any time. There is also an Auto setting
if you want to let the camera decide the best speed for the
current situation. Here are some 100% crops which show the
noise levels for each ISO setting:
The noise levels look good at ISO 125, with some noise starting
to appear at ISO 200. ISO 400 and 800 are very noisy and you
would probably want to avoid using these settings unless you
had no choice.
Sharpening
Here are two 100% crops which have been Saved as Web - Quality
40 in Photoshop. The right-hand image has had some sharpening
applied in Photoshop. The images were shot with the Sharpness
set to "Normal". Consequently they are quite sharp
straight out of the camera.
File Quality
The Caplio 400G Wide has 5 different JPEG quality settings.
Here are some 100% crops which show the various file quality
settings.
Chromatic Aberrations
The Ricoh Caplio 400G Wide suffers from quite excessive chromatic
aberrations in bright outdoor conditions where there is high-contrast.
There was no sun in the sky when I took the images shown below.
Both chimney pots exhibit strong purple fringing on one side.
Overall Image Quality
The image quality of the Ricoh Caplio 400G Wide is perfectly
acceptable, but not outstanding. Its biggest achilles heel
seems to be purple fringing, with more in evidence than other
digital cameras that I've reviewed. The images aren't too
noisy at the lower ISO speeds, but you will only want to use
ISO 400 and 800 in an emergency. At the default sharpening
setting of "Normal" the images are fairly sharp
and won't require too much sharpening during post-processing.
All-in-all an adequate but rather underwhelming performance.
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