Help with 50mm lens compact

[gzisis69]

Hello to the team. I was for 1 week at amsterdam with the ricoh gr d iv and i loved how small and handy it is but i hated the 28mm lens. Im more a 50mm lens person and the 28 was really too wide for me. Is there a 50mm lens( equavalent) in film or digital that has so small proportions as the ricoh ? A viewfinder would be great too but id compromise that for the 50mm lens.

 

[dourbalistar]

The new Ricoh GR IIIx has a 40mm (equivalent). There's a thread about it here on the forum:
https://www.rangefinderforum.com/node/178298

A hands-on review:
https://www.dpreview.com/articles/1411981563/hands-on-with-the-ricoh-gr-iiix

 

[shawn]

Hello to the team. I was for 1 week at amsterdam with the ricoh gr d iv and i loved how small and handy it is but i hated the 28mm lens. Im more a 50mm lens person and the 28 was really too wide for me. Is there a 50mm lens( equavalent) in film or digital that has so small proportions as the ricoh ? A viewfinder would be great too but id compromise that for the 50mm lens.

Samsung NX Mini with the 9mm f3.5 (24mm equivalent) pancake and 17mm f1.8 (46mm equivalent) lenses. There was also a zoom available for the NX Mini.

Pentax Q-S1 with 8.5mm f1.9mm ( either 47 or 40mm equivalent depending upon the model of Q), Standard Zoom 02 5-15mm f2.8-4.5 (either 28-83mm or 23-70 equivalent) and the Zoom 06 15-45mm f2.8 (83-249mm or 70-209mm equivalent). On the Q series the last two generations had a larger sensor than the first two generations which is why the lenses FOV will vary. Pentax had a fisheye (but better options out there), a couple of 'toy' lenses, a body cap shield lens and a wide angle zoom 3.8-5.9mm (21.3-33mm or 17.5-27mm).

Shawn

 

[Ko.Fe.]

GR III X comes with 50 and 75 POV mode. Did you checked if similar modes are available on GR III.
SBOOI is good match for GR.

 

[gzisis69]

Thanx for the interesting ideas. I quess there is not a ricoh substitute for 50mm. I liked that camera cause its small it feels good in the hand and is really well thought. Maybe the gr iiix would fit me well.

 

[Evergreen States]

If you're cool with manually focusing, some of the 1970s fixed lens rangefinders have lenses as long as 45mm. The Konica S2, for instance, supposedly has a 45mm ƒ/1.8 lens that is as good as a 50mm Summicron.

For digital, you might look at one of the Canon M APS-C mirrorless ILCs paired with the 32mm ƒ/1.4 or a Fuji XE-3 or XE-4 with a 35mm ƒ/2.