Ricoh unveils forgettable Caplio RR750 point-and-shoot

We don't expect anyone to get too worked up over yet another ho hum Ricoh, but the firm is upgrading its middle-of-the-road (at best) RR730 with a slightly improved 7.16-megapixel CCD sensor and a higher resolution 2.5-inch LCD. The RR750 also touts a 3x optical zoom (and 4x of the nearly worthless digital variety), movie mode, 32MB of built-in memory, USB connectivity, an SD expansion slot, and it operates on a pair of AA cells. No word just yet on pricing nor availability, but considering the utterly lackluster feature set, we're such this one won't demand much.

[Via LetsGoDigital]

[Don Wilson @ Jul 14th 2007 2:37PM]

Wow, you could've written this one with a tad bit more enthusiasm.

[Andrew @ Jul 14th 2007 3:01PM]

Why waste the sarcasm?

[silverblackvoid @ Jul 14th 2007 2:59PM]

yeah dude you shouldn't treat a gadget like this. show some respect to the engineers who created this wonderful piece of electronics.

[Wolfticket @ Jul 14th 2007 3:41PM]

2 Things I like: Camera companies with history and reputation pawning of their good names on cheap re-badged imported cameras (Ricoh, Minox, Leica et al) and sarcasm.

[Josh @ Jul 14th 2007 3:53PM]

Its interesting...when a phone comes out with out even the most basic things most other phones have (picture text, record video, customizable ringtones, the ability to use the phone as storage, etc, etc) you heap praise on it. When a camera comes out from a company you may not be drinking the Kool-Aid from - you call its feature set 'lackluster'.

I agree that the cameras are not much to look at and probably is just as you describe it. I just wonder why sometimes. You never talk about how the features that this camera does have - how well it does what it does. When in fact this was exactly how you describe the Iphone and talk about well it does the features it does contain.

If you don't like the company, fine. But geez man...when Apple came out with the Iphone and his minscule set of features - praise was gushing from here and the spin was how they simplify the process and how things are so much better when you focus on a few things and do it well than cramming a lot of things and do most of them poorly. If this camera has a miniscule set of features and does them all poorly - fine. Say that. But the rampant sarcasam to a product you haven't tried compared to the gushing praise for another product (until recently) you had never tried seems a bit biased.

[SteveMB @ Jul 14th 2007 8:02PM]

I hate cameras with AA batteries, they don't get good battery life. I have a DXG and it has absolutely horrible battery life. I wish they would stick a rechargeable lithium ion battery in there.

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[Jonas @ Jul 14th 2007 10:16PM]

I have to disagree about the batteries. Plenty of cameras use AA's, and if you use the high capacity NiMH's, I can get hundreds of images between charges. The real advantage is that the NiMH's are generic, and inexpensive to replace at around $10 for a set of 4. Those lithium ion batteries, that are proprietary cost considerably more than that, and make me wonder if it is worth the dough to put it into an old camera.

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