10 November 2009 6:00 GMT / By Chris Hall
Pocket-lint was on hand to grab some shots of the new Ricoh GXR interchangeable unit system camera.
The GXR takes the fight to Micro Four Thirds, offering a system which lives in the small form factor of a compact camera, whilst offering interchangeable lens units.
Each lens unit pairs up the glass with the sensor and a processor unit, rather than using a sensor built-in to the body of the camera. The body, in effect, becomes little more than a battery pack and control unit.
Those sealed lens units offer the advantage of being sealed, so protect the sensor from dust or dirt ingress, an inherent problem with traditional SLR/DSLR cameras and the new Micro Four Thirds system cameras.
The hotshoe offers an accessory attachment point which, like the Panasonic Lumix GF1 or Olympus Pen EP-2, can accept an electronic viewfinder or a flash.
Feast your eyes on our hands-on pics below and why not head over and read the news story, or check out our First Look of the GXR? Links below.
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