i love my R-D1s

[dreilly]

I had planned to sell my R-D1 after I got the Ricoh M module. Which is superb, by the way. Extremely clean, detailed files. And yet I still have my R-D1. I just took pics of it to place a classified, and I can't bring myself to do it. I had both with me in Japan two weeks ago, and the Ricoh is the far more capable camera. But it's not beautiful, and it's not lovely to use, and its files, though clean, don't move me like the R-D1 files do. I'm not usually gushy over cameras. I had a D700 and I liked it, but you know, those files weren't really that special. Clean high iso, but other than that, they looked like my D300 files. Nice. Nikony. I didn't keep that camera.

Interestingly, my Nikon D70 files were special and did stand, and that might have the same sensor as the R-D1 (does anyone know for sure?)

Problem is the R-D1 is totally impractical for some of the things I like to do, like time-lapse (GXR has the intervalometer built in...the Epson....would need some kind of automatic shutter cocker?), or macro (I can do that on the GXR, not the R-D1 without some string and trial and error). Or high iso hygiene! But again, those special files.

Or...might I just be reacting the slight vignetting I get with the R-D1?

It's a curious camera. I can't quite grok it. I do like it. I might do something supremely impractical, like keep it.

My GXR can do this:

and

But can it do this?

 

[Out to Lunch]

dreilly...thanks for sharing these very nice pics! And I agree, it's the special R-D1 files that make me keep the two bodies I have, as well.

 

[beefsupreme]

Don't sell it you will regret it! I initially got a 40d, then a 550d for video...then an e-pl1 with bunch of old Russian lenses and finally the r-d1s with a 40mm nokton. You are right there is a whole bunch of compromises, and it is a lot of money for 5-6 year old tech, but there is something magical about the manual controls and the photos that it takes. You don't need to fiddle with menus and buttons and turning auto this and that on and off...just take photos of what u see. I love it and wish more camera manufacturers would make cameras like this.