I dug up my Ricoh GX200 today

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In honor of the purchase of Pentax by Ricoh, I went looking for my GX200. I had forget that is has such an intelligent interface. Very Professional. Lots of noise from 400 ISO and on but in B/W with Noise Ninja, I can get some fine vintage night time shots. The EVF although not up to today's standards is still very useable in bright sunshine.

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I'm totally frustrated by my GX200. Can never manage to get good shots out of it. Johann, how did you set up the camera?
 
Ok, maybe I'm a bit harsh and pixelpeep to much. But the amount of noise you see, even at ISO 200 or 400... I can only really use it in daylight and can forget using it indoors or at dusk.
 
capito said:
Ok, maybe I'm a bit harsh and pixelpeep to much. But the amount of noise you see, even at ISO 200 or 400... I can only really use it in daylight and can forget using it indoors or at dusk.
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Oh Contrare again.
Nighttime shots

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See, the first shot is OK, but the next two (especially the second one) have visible noise artefacts, even scaled down to the small size.
Maybe I'm expecting too much from the small sensor. At first I thought, hey, it can't be worse than pushed APX400 or C41 film at 800. It's not that there is so much noise, which there is. In jpgs, the quality of the noise is terrible and not at like film.

On the other hand, I keep seeing wonderful shots on flickr and ask myself: what the heck am I doing wrong?
 
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capito said:
See, the first shot is OK, but the next two (especially the second one) have visible noise artefacts, even scaled down to the small size.
Maybe I'm expecting too much from the small sensor. At first I thought, hey, it can't be worse than pushed APX400 or C41 film at 800. It's not that there is so much noise, which there is. In jpgs, the quality of the noise is terrible and not at like film.

On the other hand, I keep seeing wonderful shots on flickr and ask myself: what the heck am I doing wrong?
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Keep experimenting. But yes it is a small sensor.
 
capito said:
Johann, how did you set up the camera?
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Shoot mostly at low ISOs (400 and below) and use as little processing as you can on-camera. I'd say shoot in RAW, although these were all shot JPG. Shoot at a manually set hyperfocal setting and it's lightning fast.

I too was frustrated when I first started using the GX200, but keep going at it - you will get what it can and can't do, and get the best of what it can.

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