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| Category: | Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera |
| Price: | £534.00 |
Ricoh Announced GXR Mount A12 - Ricoh announce the new GXR Mount A12 with 12.3 megapixel APS-C sensor, allowing the use of Leica M lenses on the Ricoh GXR body.
Posted: 5th August 2011
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Ricoh has announced the new Ricoh GXR A12 Mount supporting lenses compatible with the Leica M lens mount, previously the Ricoh GXR mounts featured a combined sensor and lens unit - read our review of the Ricoh GXR here. It features a 12.3 megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor, 2.2fps shooting, built in distortion correction function options, 720p video recording, and will support other lens mounts with additional adapters. More information is available below, or on Ricoh's website.
From Ricoh: Tokyo, Japan, August 5, 2011—Ricoh Co., Ltd. (president and CEO: Shiro Kondo) today announced the development and planned September 9, 2011 release of the new product GXR MOUNT A12, a lens mount unit exclusively for the GXR interchangeable unit camera system. The body colour will be black only, and the planned monthly production volume is 3,000 units.
Introduced in December 2009, the GXR is a revolutionary interchangeable unit camera system in which lenses can be changed by mounting camera units that integrate lens, image sensor, and image processing engine into a single unit. In addition, utilizing its unique ability to accommodate interchangeable units other than camera units, the system can be expanded to include a variety of other devices.
The new GXR MOUNT A12 is a lens mount unit made especially for the GXR. Featuring an APS-C size CMOS sensor and a newly developed focal plane shutter, this unit makes it possible to mount lenses such as Leica M lenses, and it provides various types of compensation and correction functions.
Ricoh GXR M Mount A12 Specifications
| Manufacturer | Ricoh | |
| Image Sensor | ||
| CCD pixels | 12.3Mp (Megapixels) | |
| Pixels (W) | 4288 | |
| Pixels (H) | 2416 | |
| Sensor Type | CMOS | |
| Sensor Size | APS-C | |
| Sensor Size (width) | 23.6mm | |
| Sensor Size (height) | 15.7mm | |
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| LCD Monitor | ||
| LCD Monitor | 3in | |
| Screen resolution | 920k | |
| Touch Screen | No | |
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| Exposure Control | ||
| Shutter speeds shortest | 1/4000sec | |
| Shutter speeds longest | 180sec | |
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| ISO sensitivity | 200 - 3200 | |
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| Exposure Comp | +/-4 | |
| Viewfinder | ||
| Viewfinder Resolution | No Data | |
| Shooting Options | ||
| Continuous shooting | 2.2fps | |
| Video | ||
| Movie mode | Yes | |
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| Video FPS | 30 | |
| Stereo Sound | No | |
| Optical Zoom with Video | No Data | |
| Other Features | ||
| Image Stabilisation | No | |
| Interface | ||
| HDMI | Yes | |
| USB | USB 2 | |
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| Battery Type | Lithium Ion | |
| CIPA Rating | 330 | |
| Box Contents | ||
| Box Contents | No Data | |
| Dimensions | ||
| Weight | 170g | |
| Width | 79.1mm | |
| Height | 60.9mm | |
| Depth | 40.5mm | |
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I think an adopter to hold old Pentax K lenses manual /auto would be more appropriate. Because a handful people have Leica M lenses, but at least a few million Pentax fan still have screw mount & K mount lenses in the world. So are Nikor lenses.
Now Ricoh already bought Pentax, pl give a thought.
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