RICOH GXR

Is it worth buying an older, used digital camera? It’s a question we get asked a lot by readers and we’ve always erred on the side of ‘no’, but there are exceptions and Ricoh’s unusual take on a mirrorless system from 2009 can still work today.

PAUL BURROWS

It’s the middle of 2009 and the photography world is starting to get to grips with a whole new breed of camera. First Panasonic at the previous year’s Photokina and then Olympus repackaged the Four Thirds format sensor – now renamed Micro Four Thirds – into interchangeable lens cameras which did away with the traditional SLR mirror box and optical viewfinder. Panasonic opted for having an integrated electronic viewfinder in its Lumix G1 giving a design reminiscent of a very compact DSLR while the Olympus PEN E-P1 adopted a styling very similar to that of its Pen F half frame 35mm, but which didn’t have an eyelevel viewfinder at all. Both these cameras were significantly smaller and lighter than even the most compact DSLR which was achieved partially by using…

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