You can love or not the photos HDR (high dynamic range) all found on Flickr, but they remain a good way of coming as close as possible to human vision. The Ricoh CX1 can create HDR photos directly from the cabinet. This is not the first of its kind (some as Reflex Pentax K20 and K200 can) but this is the first compact camera to offer to take HDR photos directly from camera. The HDR is to combine multiple images (usually 2 or 3) taken at different levels of exposure (the CX1 Ricoh uses two) from one scene to eclairge delicate, with large margins between the regions most vulnerable and the darkest. Our eye is fantastic, it is able to understand the information of overexposure and under-exposure to reconstitute an image more than drinking, but the sensors are less advanced apn.

The HDR brings together several images taken at different exposure levels closer to the best of what the eye can see. Since Photoshop CS2 HDR function is included in the software, you can use third-party software such as Photometer Pro, and now this little Ricoh automatically takes care of that. The technique is sometimes pushed into the corner for the most extreme results worthy of the worst games of the zombie’s glauques atmosphere (a few examples) but once mastered; it can really get out of situations brightness normally intractable. The Ricoh CX1 adjusts the HDR image into four different increments. Otherwise, it has a 9.3 Mega pixel CMOS sensor, a zoom lens equivalent 28-200mm (7 xs) and a 120 fps video mode to 640 × 480 for replay. It will appear in mid-March in the UK for £ 299 (about 340 euros / $ 430), but it will most certainly at the next PMA.

Via