Shock resistant up to a height of 1 meter, water resistant up to a depth of 1 metre, and JIS class 6 dustproof, the Ricoh Caplio 500G Wide was designed to survive a forbidding environment. Its main features include an 8 megapixel CCD image sensor, a 3x optical zoom with a wide angle lens of 28–85 mm coverage, an anti blur system, an ISO sensitivity range of 64-1600, and a built-in flash that can reach 10 metres.