Ricoh GR - what a great street camera!

Michael Markey said:
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Wonderful ... Yummy Good, Ride em Cowboy !
 
I must add one voice to the choir of GR enthousiasts.. it's a pearl of a camera. I never thought I'd say this, but the noise of this camera at high ISO is barely distinguishable from true grain. The high contrast BW mode is also fairly perfect for some of my stuff... I don't even use RAW format.

My recent trans-siberian trip was shot about 60% on Tri-X (Ricoh Gr1v) and 40% digital (Ricoh GR). No one who saw those pictures has so far noticed a "quality" difference or been able to tell which were digital images and which film. In addition, the GR doesn't force me to use the tiny viewfinder of its analogic sister.. Sometimes I just wish there was an EF for the GR like the (Panasonic) one for Leica X2..
 
I love the GR too and enjoy shooting with it but I still feel guilty about not using my GRDIV, a great camera too. May try setting them up to shoot along side one another. My Sony RX100 only gets picked up if I know I will need the zoom.

Paul
 
I rarely use the rx100, now that I have the gr.. But there are times when I know I need to e longer then 35 (gr cropped) ahead of time, the rx100 will get the nod for my pocketable camera.

Gary
 
I wish we were getting a fee for each GR we talked people into! Ha ha.

Andrea, your images of the Trans-Siberian trip are inspiring to me in style and substance...I'm a fan. Hope I can wield my GR with such skill.
 
I wish the gr had a tele adapter to go along w/ their gw3. Didn't they at one time have one for their early cameras that would make it about a 40 fov? What a travel combo (21-28-40)!!! 🙂

Gary
 
GaryLH said:
I wish the gr had a tele adapter to go along w/ their gw3. Didn't they at one time have one for their early cameras that would make it about a 40 fov? What a travel combo (21-28-40)!!! 🙂

Gary
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that would be great!
a 2x extender for a 50mm FOV
 
The black and whites from this camera look an awful lot like 35mm film, an awful lot, and I can't think of a single other digital camera that can do that. I think I'm going to have to pick one of these up, plus it shoots squares! Oh my...
 
crsantin said:
The black and whites from this camera look an awful lot like 35mm film, an awful lot, and I can't think of a single other digital camera that can do that. I think I'm going to have to pick one of these up, plus it shoots squares! Oh my...
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I can, the GXR seems to generate B&W shots with similar qualities. Combine it with some vintage glass on the M-module and you get even closer.
 
The Ricoh b&w are good, but the b&w from the foveon sensor to me look better, more tonal range and detail.

Gary
 
How are Ricoh doing with firmware updates? Do they tweak and release updates, or their software works well enough to not warrant that many updates? I mean, do they even do things like release updates that improve things, or they stay strictly to bug fix releases, or none at all?

I'm so excited, I will pick up my GR tomorrow night. I've been wanting one ever since the GRDIII, but I can't stand those "standard" compact camera sensors for different reasons, and now I just couldn't hold off any longer with the new GR for that reason. 🙂

The only thing that worries me is the 28mm FOV as I use 50mm 95% of the time on my M9, but on the other hand I can't know for sure until I try, and lately I have been more interested in wider angles than before.
 
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