The Ricoh GR version 3, what do you want to see?

Here's my wishlist:

1. Viewfinder
2. Viewfinder
3 did I say I want the next Ricoh GR to have a viewfinder? ;-)

I like photography a lot, and part of that comes from the experience of holding your camera at your eye level and looking through a viewfinder, I need that framing. Cameras having no ovf or evf are not for me, it's like being in a conversation having no point of view ;)
 
1. A 40mm equivalent version, maybe f2.4 (Rollei 35S lens was tiny and excellent @ actual 40mm f2.8, also true for Leica CM at actual 40mm f2.4, should not be difficult to make a compact APSC camera with this FOV).

2. A monochrome 40mm version

3. Sure, framelines as on Leica Q
 
Digital GR21 version, with 21mm equivalent lens. Doesn't have to be aps-c, even a small sensor, but having a reasonably fast 21mm lens in a GR body: yes! I wonder if they could do it with a 1" sensor?
 
Let's see...

"Dumb" optical viewfinder with bright frame lines for 28mm and 35mm.
24 MP sensor so 35mm crop mode would have more pixels.
Sensor dust prevention or a way to easily clean it.

Can't think of anything else. Got no problem with the GR tradition of 28mm of effective FOV (with 21mm attachment if needed) fixed lens. I don't need tilting screen or faster focusing. Maybe a face detection could be useful for quick blind hipshot.
 
Archiver said:
Digital GR21 version, with 21mm equivalent lens. Doesn't have to be aps-c, even a small sensor, but having a reasonably fast 21mm lens in a GR body: yes! I wonder if they could do it with a 1" sensor?
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There's a conversion lens that mounts on the GR to make it 21mm. It increases the size, but it does the job.

I'm sticking with my previous posts, but I'm adding face detection.

I know it seems like one of those things that we're used to Ricoh leaving out, as one of those silly extras, but I've had a handful of shots this last couple of weeks where despite the af boxes saying they'd got the focus, it had missed the faces.

It could presumably be added to the 1 and 2 through firmware, and I'd definitely welcome it.

For people complaining about af speed, there is a high speed mode
 
coelacanth said:
Let's see...

"Dumb" optical viewfinder with bright frame lines for 28mm and 35mm.
24 MP sensor so 35mm crop mode would have more pixels.
Sensor dust prevention or a way to easily clean it.

Can't think of anything else. Got no problem with the GR tradition of 28mm of effective FOV (with 21mm attachment if needed) fixed lens. I don't need tilting screen or faster focusing. Maybe a face detection could be useful for quick blind hipshot.
Click to expand...

Couldn't ask for more.
 
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