Ricoh GR, love at first sight!

[Landberg]

Hi!

I have been shooting film for the last three years. When i decided to start shooting digital again there was so many choices. I wanted a small camera with a viewfinder. I first tried the Fuji X100s, did not like it at all! I think it's real ugly if i may say so (it is time for the hipster era to die!) 😉. I returned it and ordered the Ricoh GR. I love it! I use it with a external viewfinder. Snap focus, F/11, ISO 3200 and then i turn off the LCD and shoot. I don't look at my pictures in the camera, i treat it as a film camera.

Here are some photos from the first 2 weeks!

sorry for my bad english. The time is 3 am here, no one should write something on the internet so late at night! 😉

 

[George Bonanno]

Your English is atrocious... however your shooting style with the GR and VF is right on target.

Do you know Mattias Ericsson ?

 

[segedi]

Love it as well. Great photos!

 

[Landberg]

Your English is atrocious... however your shooting style with the GR and VF is right on target.

Do you know Mattias Ericsson ?

Haha! I read it again today and I am embarrassed! But I hope that you understood it anyway!😉 nope, I don't know him.

Love it as well. Great photos!

Thanks!

 

[oftheherd]

Nice photos for sure. Glad you have found a camera you like. As to your English, I wish I still had the command of the other languages I used to speak that you have of English. But it doesn't matter how well you spoke or didn't speak, if you don't use a language for 40 or more years, you lose most of it.

You are doing fine in both English and photography. Looking forward to seeing more of your photos.

 

[rhl-oregon]

Yes, great camera with a wonderful lineage. I started with a GRDIII which, at the time, seemed as though it could do anything--as though I were Prospero and it were Ariel perforing my every whim.

Shoot through a windshield at 60mph ISO 64? Sure.

Document the afterlife of kitsch in badly lighted thrift stores at ISO 1600 f1.9? Why not?

Now I have the GR, and although it's not my only digital companion, I could do far worse if given a one-camera restriction. Its capabilities are more than equal to the whims and diversities of my vision.

I hope this testimonial helps. The more you ask of the GR, the more it can do.

 

[35photo]

I'm so glad I discovered this camera! Its one of my fav digital cameras I've used its just so well designed and you can customize really easily I have it in my jacket pocket with me all the time.. Snap focus is beautiful, all the controls are in a good spot.. I do wish it was full frame, but the image quality is excellent hanging with my M9 and D800E..

 

[Landberg]

rhl-oregon, nice photos!

It is a great little camera!

 

[burancap]

It (the whole series) is a special camera. Often when I pick up another camera and I start thinking about why something doesn't work the way I thought, I realize it was something that I had programmed into one of my Ricohs. Love them all.

 

[LChanyungco]

The GR is the perfect sidekick 🙂