Alan,

Thanks for a great review of what is a superb and very pocketable camera, Ricoh are "the quiet ones" in the digital world, they specialise in good quality compacts that meet the requirements of many serious photographers looking for a backup compact, as well as making good P&S's for everyday use.

 I suspect the compact market is getting close to a serious shake up with the impending launch (ever the optimist) of the Sigma DP-1, Canons announcement of CMOS sensors for their compacts and finally, the speculation about a replacement for the 2yr old Ricoh GRD.............intersting times ahead?

For those interested parties, I have posted a set of my Ricoh images taken with both GRD and GX100 cameras, you can see them here:

http://ianskyphotosite.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html

Sounds like a very smart little bit of kit!

And you do move in very posh circles Alan