Even if least high mechanics range photos on Flickr make you want to excretion, it's still incredibly functional for creating images that match what the nude eyeball sees. The Ricoh CX1 does HDR images in-camera.
It's not the first (a small indefinite quantity Pentax DSLRs do it, the K20 and K200) but it Gregorian calendar month precise well be the first point-and-shoot to offer in-camera HDR (high mechanics range) processing.
HDR deeds by pickings four-fold exposures back-to-back (the Ricoh does deuce) of a difficultly-lit scene, one where here is a wide range between the brightest and darkest areas. Your eyeball, because it's awing, can take no this out on its personal, but a whole number camera's sensing element can't. So what HDR does is portmanteau word the correctly unclothed surround from each image into one shot which more than closely matches what your nude eyeball is sight. Generally it takes Photoshop or specialised software system to integrate your personal manually bracketed shots into an HDR image, but the Ricoh does it automagically.
The proficiency can be pushed to extremes for horrifically colorful results (see here if you don't disbelieve me), but when finished right, it's truly priceless to make the least out of effortful exposure situations. The Ricoh has quaternity HDR strength settings so you can go for more than elusive merges.
On top of that, there's a 9.3-megapixel CMOS sensing element, 28-200mm move cognition, and a 120 FPS slow-mo video recording modality that captures at 640x480. It's pop in the UK in time period for £299 (around $430), but we'll probably perceive more than about a US release at PMA. Precise cool stuff. [Ricoh Press Release/Specs via DPReview]
