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Last Wednesday we brought you news of Ricoh's new i700 digital camera
with a touch sensitive 3.5" LCD panel and a FAX & Internet ready
operating system (web browsing, email & HTML markup), there's a PCMCIA
slot to take either a modem or ethernet card. On Monday Ricoh will announce
this camera worldwide, Ricoh Japan have already put up their information
page and some sample images.

Ricoh RDC i700 Specifications
| Imager |
1/1.8" 3.34 megapixels (3.24
effective) |
| Sensitivity |
ISO 150, 200, 400 (selectable)
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| Image sizes |
2048 x 1536
1024 x 768
640 x 480
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| Image modes |
JPEG (3 compression levels)
TIFF
AVI movies (Motion JPEG)
WAV voice annotations
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| Movie clips |
320 x 240 Motion JPEG (AVI) |
| Lens |
3x optical (35 - 105 mm as 35 mm equiv.)
F2.6 - F3.4
10 pieces in 7 groups |
| Digital Zoom |
1.3x, 1.6x, 3.2x (only at 640 x 480) |
| Focus distance |
Normal: 24 cm - Infinity
Macro: 1 cm - 24 cm |
| Focus modes |
Auto Focus
Manual Focus |
| Shutter speed |
8, 4, 2 and 1 - 1/1000 secs (mechanical
shutter)
1/15 - 1/10000 sec (electronic shutter - animation only) |
| Metering |
Center Weight Average |
| Exposure compen. |
+/-2.0 EV in 0.5 EV |
| White Balance |
Auto, Sunny, Cloudy, Incandescent,
Fluorescent |
| Self timer |
10 seconds |
| Time lapse |
Intervals of anything between 30 seconds
and 3 hours |
| Flash modes |
Auto, Anti-red eye, Forced Flash, No Flash, Slow Sync
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| LCD |
3.5" / 200,000 pixels touch panel (supplied scribe)
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| Viewfinder |
Optical |
| Media |
CompactFlash Type II
Built-in RAM (6 MB)
PCMCIA Type II card |
| Connections |
USB
Serial (RS232)
AV (inc. audio) output |
| Expansion |
Modem, Telephone, Mobile card, LAN,
ISDN via PCMCIA slot |
| Optional accs. |
Batteries (DB-30 Lithium Ion), AC-Adapter
(AC-3), InfraRed Remote Control (DR-3), Battery Charger (BJ-1), Compact
Flash cards |
| Power |
Lithium Ion (DB-30) |
| Dimensions |
157 x 93 x 33 mm (6.1 x 3.7 x 0.7
") |
| Weight (inc batt.) |
450 g (1 lb) |
Ricoh RDC-i700 Built-in Software Specifications
| Dial-up protocol |
PPP |
| E-Mail |
POP3 / SMTP with support for MIME
attachments
Internal Address book supports up to 50 names |
| Web Browser |
NetFront 2.5, HTML 3.2 & SSL |
| HTML markup |
HTML file generation based on templates,
slide show |
| HTML upload |
FTP protocol |
| Direct Image |
Proprietary protocol |
| FAX |
Class 1 & 2 |
| Image Editting |
Resize, Hand-written sketch / memo,
text memo, trimming, rotation, voice annotation |
| On-screen keyboard |
English QWERTY or Japanese Kana-Kanji |
Currently supported PCMCIA communications cards:
(from Japanese pages, other cards may be supported
for other regions)
- NTT DoCoMo Mobile DP2896P2 / Mobile Card Triplex (phone card)
- Au (IDO/DDI cellular) C081NDS (phone card)
- NTT DoCoMo Paldio611S / Mobile Card P-in / DC-6S (phone connector
card)
- DDI-P SII MC JP200/210TD (phone connector card)
- 3Com 3CXM756 JP (modem card)
- TDK DF5660ES (modem card)
- IO Data PCINSII-128 (ISDN card)
- TDK LAK-CD021BX / LAK-CD031 (LAN card)
Ricoh RDC-i700 Sample Images
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