der.chris.tian
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first off, I posted this text already at photo.net, but there was no reaction. So... I hope you don't mind when I copy it instead of writing a new - exlusive rff - one. ; D
Hello,
I bought a Ricoh GRD plus the optional Viewfinder. Im kinda impressed by the nice "grain" and the image quality in general (for example I wouldn't have expected some sort of a bokeh. But sometimes there is one. Hurray...).
What freaks me out though, is that the fact(?) that one cannot change both aperture and shutter speed while the display is turned off. Maybe it makes sense in a way (one can't see the changes), but you know... It would be okay for me to count the f-stops while changing it.
Now you have to switch on the lcd, make your changes and if you don't want to get disturbed by the lcd while looking trough the viewfinder, you might want to turn it off. So you have to press the display button 4 times. Well.... Hurray. And then the situation in gone. Or did I ignored something which makes this easier? Or maybe a firmware update issue?
I could shoot in aperture priority, but it doesn't work that good. Maybe my cam here is broken, but the shutter speed won't get over 1/760. Even when Iso is set to 400, aperture 2,4 and raising cam in a light-flooded area. Errrrr...
It seems that, if I want to shoot in bright daylight, I have to set iso down and aperture up to get the A work. Somehow stupid, because I loose the nice grain (starting at 400) and the last bit of bokeh at f2,4.
Or I'm just talking s*** and I cannot use this camera right. I hope so, because I indeed like the images it produces. So... how do you use it?
In order to give you something to watch while thinking here're some pictures made with it:
