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Site & Board Matters => About This Site => Topic started by: Prognathous on March 23, 2008, 06:04:24 pm
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First, thank you Michael for the great review (as usual). I've personally been waiting a long time (http://luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=10635&hl=) to hear your opinion on a Ricoh camera, and the wait was worth it. I do have a few corrections/notes to make:
- AF may be "slowish" when using half-press, but when you do a full-press the camera skips contrast-detection AF and just uses its external phase-detection sensors. In this method it trades absolute accuracy for speed. Skipping half-press is usually not a good idea, but in pressing situation it's good to know that the camera can focus and capture a shot in an instant. It takes less time than switching to Snap AF mode, and if the sensor happens to be on the subject, it's actually more accurate.
- The GX100 does have a cable release socket - the USB socket. You do need Ricoh's dedicated CA-1 cable release to use it though.
- Interval shooting with the GX100 can yield amazing movies, depending on the expertise of the photographer. See Martin Setvak's work (http://www.setvak.cz/timelapse/2008.html) with the GX100 for some really excellent interval-based movies.
- Adorama is not the exclusive dealer in the US. Popflash.com (http://popflash.com/) is a smaller dealer, but well respected (http://www.resellerratings.com/store/PopFlash_Photo) one that sells Ricoh gear. I have very good experience buying from them and many of the other users at the Ricoh Talk forum over at dpreview.com share the same good experience.
Prog.
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I have not read the review, but also have a lower model Ricoh, the R40, that I use when in the outback. As with many Ricoh models, it includes a basic intervalometer and I use it quite a bit for time lapse.
The Ricoh tends to limit the shortest interval to 5 seconds, which is good for landscape and clouds but the 1 sec interval on my D200 I tend to find better for crowds and traffic.
Cheers
Tim
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I loved my GX100. Had it shipped to Canada from Adorama as you can't get them here. Then a nasty person stole it from me in Toronto in December. Very sad....
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I have been using one since the day it was released and love it.
Not perfect image quality wise, but very nice overall.
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/219/488147070_7fd47d76fe_o.jpg)
Cheers,
Bernard
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And how many images did you sitch to get that one, Bernard? Eight? Sixteen?
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And how many images did you sitch to get that one, Bernard? Eight? Sixteen?
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Eric... I have to confess... shamingly... that this is a single capture... sigh...
Cheers,
Bernard
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why the GX100 over the GR-D ? The GR-D seems to have certain advantages, including (even) better stealth... The zoom on the GX doesn't seem all that significant.
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why the GX100 over the GR-D ? The GR-D seems to have certain advantages, including (even) better stealth... The zoom on the GX doesn't seem all that significant.
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I chose the GX100 over the GRD because the zoom gives more flexibility. The step zoom function allows the camera to be used as though you have a set of primes (24, 28, 35, 50 and 72mm on a 35mm equivalence) and you can shoot 3:2 aspect ratio raw files. If the GRD had a fixed lens in the 35 to 50 equivalence range then I might well have bought that instead, but 28 is just too wide for my every day taste. Interestingly, I have also enjoyed the 24mm setting since buying the camera.
I'm not sure there's much difference in stealth - the body design is basically the same, and I have tended to use mine with an optical viewfinder attachment as well as the screen.
All in all, I think it's a great little camera.
Mike
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According to DPReview, the EVF isn't much good. Michael didn't comment on this - so, what's the story ?
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According to DPReview, the EVF isn't much good. Michael didn't comment on this - so, what's the story ?
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I thought Michael mentioned that he used it - I use clip on optical finders from old rangefinder cameras. They are cheap on ebay and provide a nice solution - or you can buy new voigtlander viewfinders for more (Ricoh also sell one for the GRD which will work with the GX100 at 28mm).
I've attached a couple of snaps with a Helios 35mm finder attached.
Mike
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According to DPReview, the EVF isn't much good. Michael didn't comment on this - so, what's the story ?
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I thought Michael mentioned that he used it - I use clip on optical finders from old rangefinder cameras. They are cheap on ebay and provide a nice solution - or you can buy new voigtlander viewfinders for more (Ricoh also sell one for the GRD which will work with the GX100 at 28mm).
I've attached a couple of snaps with a Helios 35mm finder attached.
Mike
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Michael showed me the EVF, and I was astonished by its useability. It is quick and responsive and works well with eyeglasses (it feels totally 'High Eye-Point'). I didn't have a chance to examine it's image-coverage, but if it shows a good approximation of the image-area, I'd say it's a very useful tool.
With a zoom lens, external viewfinders are just useless.
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Michael showed me the EVF, and I was astonished by its useability. It is quick and responsive and works well with eyeglasses (it feels totally 'High Eye-Point'). I didn't have a chance to examine it's image-coverage, but if it shows a good approximation of the image-area, I'd say it's a very useful tool.
With a zoom lens, external viewfinders are just useless.
- N.
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Interesting that the EVF is useful. I use external viewfinders as I tend to use a single focal length for reasonable periods anyway - but maybe I should look for an EVF on ebay...
Mike