Grantley showing us his Ricoh AF-5, Point and Shoot Camera ... Grantley Waters, and his Ricoh Point and Shoot Camera, the Ricoh AF-5 ... In Tokyo, Japan, in 1936 the Ricoh Company was founded by Kiyoshi Ichimura. In 1957 Ricoh makes Japan's first mass-production Cameras. The Company took the name of its products, becoming Ricoh in the year 1963. Ricoh is well known for a series of point and shoot cameras, made from the early1980s until the 1990s. In the early 1980s the Ricoh AF-5 was made, it was a sophisticated well made point and shoot auto-focus compact camera for 35mm film with an integral flash and auto-focus, and was manufactured exclusively by the Ricoh Camera Company. The lens produces particularly remarkably contrasts photos in good light.