Ricoh GXR interchangeable unit camera: point and shoot for a pro?

Ricoh GXR camera

Eventually Ricoh has unveiled its first digital system camera: GRX. This is a quite unusual camera, without shutter and sensor in a camera body . You ask me how?

Ricoh decide to integrated everything into the lens! What the idea! :-)

Ricoh Lens inside

Think about this: you can have several lenses each with a different sensor size, with and without low pass filter, different dynamic range, etc.. Sounds very promising, especially if you have enough money to buy such lenses.

Here is the info from Ricoh:

Items		Specifications
Flash	Mode	Auto (flash fires when lighting is poor or subject is backlit), red-eye, on, slow sync, manual, off
	Range (built-in flash)	Refer to camera unit specifications.
	Flash compensation	±2.0 EV in increments of 1/2EV or 1/3EV
	Manual flash amount	FULL, 1/1.4, 1/2, 1/2.8, 1/4, 1/5.6, 1/8, 1/11, 1/16, 1/22, 1/32, 1/64
Picture display		3.0″ transparent LCD; approx. 920,000 pixels
Shooting mode		Auto, program shift, aperture priority, shutter priority, manual, scene (movie, portrait, sports, landscape, nightscape, skew correction), ” My Settings”
Picture quality		Fine, Normal, RAW (DNG) ^*1
Storage		SD/SDHC memory card, internal memory (approx. 86 MB)
File size		Refer to camera unit specifications.
File format	Photographs	JPEG (Exif Ver. 2.21)^*2, RAW (DNG)
	Movies	AVI^*3(Open DML Motion JPEG compliant)
	Compression	JPEG baseline compliant (photographs and movies)
Other shooting options		Continuous shooting (continuous, M-Cont Plus); self-timer (shutter release delay of approx. 10 s or 2 s, or custom setting); interval timer (intervals of 5 s to 1 hour in increments of 5 s)^*4 color bracketing; B&W (TE); color space selection; noise reduction; histogram display; framing grid; depth-of-field indicator; tilt indicator; hot shoe
Other playback options		Auto image rotation (when camera unit attached); multi-frame playback; playback zoom (up to 16x); resize
Interface		USB 2.0 (High-Speed) Mini-B connector; Mass Storage^*5; AV output (NTSC), HDMI connector (Mini HDMI Type C)
Video signal format		NTSC, PAL
Power source		DB-90 rechargeable battery (3.6V)
Battery life		Refer to camera unit specifications.
Dimensions (W x H x D)		113.9 mm x 70.2 mm x 28.9 mm (excluding projections)
Weight		Camera body (excluding battery, memory card, neck strap, and connector cap): 160 g Battery, neck strap, and connector cap: 66 g
Tripod screw hole		1/4-20UNC
Operating temperature		0 °C to 40 °C
Date storage time		Approx. 1 week
Operating humidity		85% or less
Storage temperature		-20 °C to 60 °C