http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/ Engadget Comments for Ricoh GXR gets accessorized, is ready for the town -- or the shooting range http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/Mar 12th 2010 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/Mar 12th 2010 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/
Auughhh... Oh no! That sinister-looking kid is coming to kill me!

*falls out of wheelchair*]]>Mar 12th 2010 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/
That monster in the photo looks awesome though!]]>Mar 12th 2010 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/
If I'm not mistaken, these new Ricoh cameras come in different lens / sensor combinations. The body is just what enables the lenses to work. You slide the whole lens / sensor assembly into the body and you're good to go. Quite a unique way of doing things, that's for sure...]]>Mar 12th 2010 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/Mar 12th 2010 8:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/Mar 12th 2010 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/
the "lifespan" of good glass is far long than that of a dSLR

when one upgrades a dSLR the "old" glass can be used on the "new" camera

with this design this basic concept is not possible

daft, very daft]]>Mar 12th 2010 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/Mar 12th 2010 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/
I looked into doing this with my Canon DSLR in order to do astronomy pictures. I am still considering it, but I am wondering what the focal length is in mm for this setup? The spotting scopes I saw were 75x or (2625mm) I think. I was trying to get something in the 10,000mm range in a computer controller tracking setup to see planets and more detail on the Moon.]]>Mar 12th 2010 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/
10,000mm? Those are the kind of lenses NASA and the DOD uses in its satellites. I dunno if you can readily get your hands on something like that]]>Mar 12th 2010 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/um I do astrophotograpty.. A 10,000mm scope would cost you round $500k (with out a mount) made by RC.
I use a Canon DSLR 450 with a 6" refractor (1200mm f/8). You need a Canon EOS to T-ring adaptor ($20) & a T-ring too hook it up to the scope (about $80). Then a scope with GOTO or AUTOSTAR. If you want to control the mount with a computer for adaptive optics tracking you need something like a Meade LX90 ($2k-3.8k) or a Meade 200LX ($3k-$14.5k) then you need a piggy back scope with a CCD for tracking then use the main scope for taking photos with the DSLR.
Goto Meade.com for more info. There is also Orion scopes, cheaper but the tracking & optics are not as good as Meade's stuff. RC scopes are THE BEST but your starting cost is $12k for a 12" scope only & the mount is $15k & they go up from there, into the millions of $$'s.

It is not a cheap hobby. ]]>Mar 12th 2010 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/just to add..
A 10,000mm scope is 32.8ft wide so that would cost in the 10's of millions of $'s if not 100 million $'s.
If you ment 1,000mm that would be just under a 5" scope (1180mm), cost about $400-$600. ]]>Mar 12th 2010 7:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/Seriously, it looks like one of those horns.]]>Mar 12th 2010 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/Mar 12th 2010 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/ricoh-gxr-gets-accessorized-is-ready-for-the-town-or-the-shoo/Apr 5th 2010 6:29PM