RichardPhoto
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Steveh,
We bizarrely seem to be in an almost identical situation! Due to various external pressures I find it very difficult to make time for photography. I even have a Ricoh GR being delivered tomorrow morning!
I originally started looking for digital camera as my main set-up of M6/M8 is quite limiting in low light. I bought an A7R at the start of December with the logic of swapping lenses between kits (sounds good in theory) but sold it a week later (terrible camera with awful usability IMO). I realised it was a clumsy solution that didn't address the actual problem. I was just throwing more equipment at the problem rather than thinking about the root cause.
After thinking about my lack of daily shooting I realised that it wasn't actually lack of time it was lack of opportunity. I did have time - on my commute, walking to the store, around town - I just didn't have a camera on me to make use of that opportunity. I was astonished I didn't think of the GR earlier - especially given the images you can see in the GR thread on this forum.
I did consider maybe doing an image a week challenge (image a day is a bit much I think). It might be nice to just focus on very silly 'fun' photographs rather than overthinking things. I would try to focus more of creativity rather than worry about the artistic merit of the results. I think it might be fun to look back at the end of the year on the 52 images I made. Perhaps I might stumble into a completely new mode of photography I'd never considered.
The reason I personally wouldn't consider only using the GR is this: I think it's a solution for a different problem. If my problem was a pathological obsession with buying gear then that would be a good solution. My problem is with finding time for fun and creative daily photography. I think it would be illogical and quite counter-productive if I stored away my rangefinders and LF gear. If I had an opportunity to take some 8x10 landscape one weekend then surely forcing myself not to would exacerbate the original issue, not solve it.
We bizarrely seem to be in an almost identical situation! Due to various external pressures I find it very difficult to make time for photography. I even have a Ricoh GR being delivered tomorrow morning!
I originally started looking for digital camera as my main set-up of M6/M8 is quite limiting in low light. I bought an A7R at the start of December with the logic of swapping lenses between kits (sounds good in theory) but sold it a week later (terrible camera with awful usability IMO). I realised it was a clumsy solution that didn't address the actual problem. I was just throwing more equipment at the problem rather than thinking about the root cause.
After thinking about my lack of daily shooting I realised that it wasn't actually lack of time it was lack of opportunity. I did have time - on my commute, walking to the store, around town - I just didn't have a camera on me to make use of that opportunity. I was astonished I didn't think of the GR earlier - especially given the images you can see in the GR thread on this forum.
I did consider maybe doing an image a week challenge (image a day is a bit much I think). It might be nice to just focus on very silly 'fun' photographs rather than overthinking things. I would try to focus more of creativity rather than worry about the artistic merit of the results. I think it might be fun to look back at the end of the year on the 52 images I made. Perhaps I might stumble into a completely new mode of photography I'd never considered.
The reason I personally wouldn't consider only using the GR is this: I think it's a solution for a different problem. If my problem was a pathological obsession with buying gear then that would be a good solution. My problem is with finding time for fun and creative daily photography. I think it would be illogical and quite counter-productive if I stored away my rangefinders and LF gear. If I had an opportunity to take some 8x10 landscape one weekend then surely forcing myself not to would exacerbate the original issue, not solve it.
RichardPhoto
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:: Mark,
I think it was some of your photos in the 'Show us your GR images' thread that convinced me I was right to order the Ricoh GR. They're very good.
I'd also recommend people who haven't seen the thread to check out Photony Texas' work. Wow.
I think it was some of your photos in the 'Show us your GR images' thread that convinced me I was right to order the Ricoh GR. They're very good.
I'd also recommend people who haven't seen the thread to check out Photony Texas' work. Wow.
Steveh
Well-known
Richard - at risk of hi-jacking the original thread completely you won't regret the GR - they're awesome cameras, and insanely usable and flexible for such a small machine. Plus the snap mode is perfect for street/snapshots.
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