The Ricoh GR Digital is a compact
digital camera
A digital camera is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory. Most cameras produced today are digital, largely replacing those that capture images on photographic film. Digital cameras are now widely incorporated into mobile device ...
made by
Ricoh
is a Japanese multinational imaging and electronics company (law), company. It was founded by the now-defunct commercial division of the Riken, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (Riken) known as the ''Riken concern (business), Concer ...
since 2005.
First announced at
photokina 2004
Photokina (rendered in the promoters' branding as "photokina") is a trade fair held in Europe for the photographic and imaging industries. It is the world's largest such trade fair. The first Photokina was held in Cologne, Germany, in 1950, an ...
, it went on sale in Japan on 21 October 2005. The GR Digital is Ricoh's digital successor to their
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* 135 film, a type of still photography format commonly referred to as 35 mm film
* 35 mm movie film, a type of motion picture film stock
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* 135 film, a type of still photography format ...
GR series film cameras and the first in a series of
Ricoh GR digital cameras
The Ricoh GR is a series of Point-and-shoot camera, point-and-shoot, or compact, digital cameras made by Ricoh. The GR name was previously used for Ricoh's Ricoh GR film cameras, GR series of film cameras.
Ricoh GR digital cameras
* GR Digital
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.
Unlike most similar cameras, it lacks a
zoom lens
A zoom lens is a mechanical assembly of lens elements for which the focal length (and thus angle of view) can be varied, as opposed to a fixed-focal-length (FFL) lens (see prime lens).
A true zoom lens, also called a parfocal lens, is one ...
, instead having a fixed focal length of 5.9 mm (or 28 mm, in 35 mm full frame equivalent).
1st Anniversary Limited Edition
The GR 1st Anniversary Limited Edition of 2006 has a body covered with a blue sky and clouds, and drawings of angels, by
Katsuya Terada
, is a Japanese illustrator and cartoonist from the town of Tamano, Okayama. His alias is the portmanteau . Terada's prolific visual arts practice uniquely straddles the lines between manga, fine art, and digital design. His work ranges widely f ...
. Production was limited to 1000 cameras worldwide. It is functionally identical to the standard GR D except for the startup/shutdown screens.
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See also
*Point-and-shoot camera
A point-and-shoot camera, also known as a compact camera and sometimes abbreviated to P&S, is a still camera designed primarily for simple operation. Most use focus free lenses or autofocus for focusing, automatic systems for setting the exposu ...
*Wide-angle lens
In photography and cinematography, a wide-angle lens refers to a lens whose focal length is substantially smaller than the focal length of a normal lens for a given film plane. This type of lens allows more of the scene to be included in the pho ...
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