First, thank you Michael for the great review (as usual). I've personally been waiting
a long time 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 with the GX100 for some really excellent interval-based movies.
- Adorama is not the exclusive dealer in the US.
Popflash.com is a smaller dealer, but
well respected 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.