It's a fascinating idea and one that I'll be interested to see whether it works. If the image quality is up to snuff then the added bonuses of the system might make it a via player in the market. Still, starting with a very small range of lenses is going to make it difficult to compete against the established players unless Ricoh can hit all the major targets with some high quality lenses pretty quickly.
Well done to Ricoh for thinking a bit more outside of the box than everyone else.
The X-Fi3 keeps with the company's commitment to audio fidelity, thanks to the apt-X codec, which supposedly offers audio quality similar to a wired connection when streaming. On that front, the device also handles FLAC files.
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It's a fascinating idea and one that I'll be interested to see whether it works. If the image quality is up to snuff then the added bonuses of the system might make it a via player in the market. Still, starting with a very small range of lenses is going to make it difficult to compete against the established players unless Ricoh can hit all the major targets with some high quality lenses pretty quickly.
Well done to Ricoh for thinking a bit more outside of the box than everyone else.