Photograph and Camera talk
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Ricoh GR… high contrast B&W at ISO 3200
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This camera is so much fun!!!! Finn do yourself a favor and instead of buying your 15th pair of Vibergs this month. But the Ricoh GR.
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Sorry, wrong thread
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Seeing as this is the photography thread, most of the GR photos posted, to me (color correct Apple Cinema Display) appear overly contrasted/blown, regardless of the ISO shot at. Chuck's photos nearly all seem to be heavily vignetted, which IMO is also not a great look.
Not sure if there's any post-processing going on or not. None of the photos in this thread make me think of dropping $800 on this camera. I'd rather get an iPhone and process on that. Near the same level of clarity, certainly as portable.
For the near the price point & M4/3 format the Panasonic GX7 would be where my money is.
gets off his high horse.
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@Snowy the photos are supposed to be extremely high contrast. You either like that style or you don't. I personally always have. If you like high contrast b&w check out the work of Daido Moriyama he is a famous Ricoh photographer. Btw I am sure that most of the people in this thread have their monitors color corrected.
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@Snowy: I shoot RAW and do post-processing with the in camera processor. For fitpics and my flickr, I like to use the effects. Cross is my favorite and all the vignetting and the high contrast is post processed.
This one is straight out the camera JPEG.
I never saw this richness of detail and sharpness on a compact camera, and this is what the GR is.
I absolutely love your pics, but I won´t carry a DSLR all the time. The GR is a niche product, and by the size only the Nikon Coolpix A is in the same league, which is more expensive.
A GX7 never would fit in your chestpocket or the frontpocket of your jeans.
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Chuck, that explains A LOT - thank you! I thought you were showing 'out of the camera' shots from the camera. Even D666's comments that it's a unique look had me thinking as such.
I agree that DSLR's aren't always perfect. I personally bought an iPhone 5s for my pocket camera, Mobile internet + GPS +fairly to very good general photos in a most common situations won that. I also agree with you that there is a gap between the 5s and the M4/3rds - that is some lovely tones and bokeh. The lighting in that shot is what most gets me (positively. Really really well lit but no hard/soft spots)
I've on/off lusted over the M8/M9 for years, but always balk at the rangefinder concept….
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Do you think the GR has a M4/3 sensor? It´s a APSC sensor inside.
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Do you think the GR has a M4/3 sensor? It´s a APSC sensor inside.
I did ;). All comments remain the same. I lump M4/3 and APSC together in high quality portable #mybad.
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I had a M8 and although I feel Leica makes the best glass in the world I feel the bodies are subpar.
My GR's lowlight capabilities are light years ahead of the M8's the noise I get at 3200 looks more like film grain the M8 had at 640 ISO.
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Yeah Leica's software doesn't seem to have managed to keep up with it's glass/hardware. I hope they can nail it over the next few years. I really would like to own a 'life long' camera (body) at some point in my life. I've been trading bodies (and systems :o ) since I was in high school.
Leica have the reputation of the film life long camera, part of the lust/attraction :).
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I got a Canon t3i for the wedding….I'm hoping to learn some stuff quick. We'll see...
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Yeah Leica's software doesn't seem to have managed to keep up with it's glass/hardware. I hope they can nail it over the next few years. I really would like to own a 'life long' camera (body) at some point in my life. I've been trading bodies (and systems :o ) since I was in high school.
Leica have the reputation of the film life long camera, part of the lust/attraction :).
I think/hope/wish that either the new Sony A7R or a coming Sony A9 will be my 10-15 year camera
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@lucifer excellent choice
next pair of vibergs is already in order ^^
