Ricoh has a new, compact superzoomcamera announced. The company has in the new CX6 the scherpsteltijd compared to the CX5 will be halved to 0.1 second. The other differences are, however, minimal, to name a few.
The Ricoh CX6 is making like the CX5 use of an external off-module on the basis of phase detection for quick auto-focus to achieve. This module sits behind a dark screen that next to the flash is placed. Both the flash as the af lens is at the CX6 closer to the lens shifted, possible to prevent fingers of the flash block.
In addition, Ricoh has the CX6 has a grip with a slight curve to the front given, while the CX5 is a flat grip with only a vertical ridge for more grip. In place of the microphone on top of the CX5 has the new CX6 to record two microphones, left and right under the lens, for stereoaudio. Also has Ricoh’s CX6 on the back with a dedicated video button, and has 3″lcd 1.23 million subpixels instead of the 920.000 from the previous model.
Furthermore, the changes are small at the new CX-compact camera. So, the camera is equipped with a 1/2,3″cmos bsi image sensor with ten megapixels and has the 10.7 x zoom lens a wide-angle lens that starts at a focal length of 28mm. Price and availability the CX6 are not yet known.
