Deadline: 31 August 2011
Open to: All interested, except RICOH employees
Prizes: Grand Pirze: GXR Camera + Camera Unit (Camera Unit: RICOH LENS S10 24-72 mm); Special Prize: GR DIGITAL III Camera + Optional Accessories (Optional accessories: external viewfinder, neck strap); Judge’s Special Award:CX5 Camera; Performance Award:Original RING CUBE goods
RICOH is calling for submissions created around the theme of “Radiance” based on an unrestricted sensibility. Send your photographs that cover a wide variety of subjects based on new perspectives. People from all around the world are expected to offer their submissions.
Eligibility
The contest is open to any and all who would like to enter, professional photographer and amateur alike, without regard to age, gender, or nationality. However, it is not open to employees of RICOH. Any submission that violates laws or contains images deemed offensive to public order or morality or is judged by the organizers as not fulfilling the spirit and intent of the contest shall also be disqualified.
Rules
- Image data submissions: Image data taken with a RICOH digital camera
- File format: JPEG format only *Image processing allowed.
- Recommended image quality settings: As winning entries are to be exhibited at the RING CUBE photo gallery in the Ginza district of Tokyo and may be selected for use in the Calendar, it is recommended that you use the highest image quality settings for your particular camera model when taking photographs for the contest. Images with aspect ratios of 1:1, 3:2, or 16:9 are acceptable for submission.
- Photo montages will not be accepted for submission. (Photo montages use a combination of different images merged together to produce a single image.)
- RICOH may ask you to submit pre-processing image data for your submission later on. (This image data will be used in the selection process, in the printing and exhibition of winning entries, and for other similar purposes.)
Prizes
- Grand Prize GXR Camera + Camera Unit (Camera Unit: RICOH LENS S10 24-72 mm) (1 person)
- Special Prize GXR Camera + Camera Unit (Camera Unit: RICOH LENS S10 24-72 mm) (1 person)
- Special Prize GR DIGITAL III Camera + Optional Accessories(Optional accessories: external viewfinder, neck strap) (2 people)
- Judge’s Special Award CX5 Camera (2 people)
- Performance Award Original RING CUBE goods 45 people
Application
Applicants can submit up to two photographs for entry by filling THE ONLINE FORM.
Fill out the required items on the Entry form and click “Confirm” to send it along with the photograph(s) you wish to submit. (RICOH will not accept submissions via any other entry method.) Submitted entry applications cannot be cancelled. If a single Applicant tries to submit more than two photographs, the third and subsequent images will be considered invalid. Contest Applicants are to be responsible for all fees associated with submission including resulting communications fees, etc.
