Ricoh has recently announced Ricoh GXR camera. Ricoh GXR certainly isn't the most stylish camera out there, but it's definitely one of the most unique camera ever. Boasting an ability to support compatible lenses and image sensors. Ricoh GXR is a remarkable camera which supports new photographic system with excellent handling and image quality that will instantly appeal to all photographers who want to take pictures first and talk about gear second.
Ricoh GXR consists of a body and camera units. Each camera unit of Ricoh GXR contains a lens, an image sensor of optimum type and size for the unit, and an image processing engine. By changing units, the photographer can handle a diverse range of scenes in a way that satisfies sophisticated requirements for photo expression. The slide mechanism adopted for attaching and removing camera units enables changes to be made quickly and securely.
Ricoh GXR has the lens that gives life to the photograph. In interchangeable lens camera systems up to now, the distance from the mount and the back of the lens to the sensor image plane was subject to requirements for flange back distance and back focal length. This made it difficult to get both compactness and high optical performance. Eliminating the lens mount, however, means that the back focal length can be freely defined for the GXR, enabling the new system to use the most optically efficient lens designs and giving it excellent potential for future expansion.
With the GXR, on the other hand, we can design a filter optimized for the resolution of the specific lens. In this way, Ricoh has succeeded in effectively preventing color noise while suppressing filter influence on lens resolution.
