Tom Caldwell

Thanks Jorge Well done. I have been wondering for a while if digital cameras were coming to a point where it could be said "they have arrived".  I think it has happened.  Not only the Ricoh GR but...

I sympathise to a point, but these units are the last dregs scrounged up from here there and everywhere and sold through one outlet and a very keen exit price.  If they had been full price units...

Boy have you got some rapid fire learning to do! The grey line were in fact the much vaunted focus peaking (mode2) that someone left set up for you.  They make manual focus so easy once you get...

Most cameras with shorter flange back distances than the M mount can handle LM and LTM glass.  The M4/3 and   NEX mounts have a big following with plenty of adapters available.  Even the Samsung NX...

Ray Does that all sound a bit silly to yourself? I am taking my marbles and going home? Normally one might think that having bought a Nikon A that you would have made a choice anyway, but you were...

The previous Ricoh camera have all sort of tricks under the hood. But from the GRDIV they have had "Fn Button Pairing"" which is a method of setting and quickly accessing four separate Fn button...

Ray I have not explored the depths of the GR menu beforehand, in fact it is impossible to do so without camera in hand.  I thought myself fairly comfortable with the GRDIII but now having the GRDIV...

Quite correct Andrew.  There seems to be a particular obsession with the GR - more new users for Ricoh? Have to get them trained .... (grin) Perhaps they think that Ricoh is a regular camera...

Actually I had thought that Ricoh was doing very well,  keeping quiet, not tantalising releases of "leaks", make a superior product, get the release price about right, keep everyone on tenterhooks...

So every camera company can guarantee immediate shipping from their warehouse to every panting would be owner world-wide through the eye of the freight forwarding companies local customs clearing...

Obviously missed the bargain GRDIV's about. I already had the very good GRDIII but had to have a GRDIV anyways as a copy of the pinnacle of the small sensor breed. As usual with the GRDIII/IV, GXR...

I thought it a very good overview of the GRDIV - unfortunately right at the time the GRDIV had been discontinued but it might create some interest in the GR when it arrives in the US shops. I...

Nice to see a new user so anxious. Glad I can still enjoy my GXR and GRDIV for a week or so more (grin)

I had the wide adapter lens for the GRD original it was also very good. Not only that but the GRD recognised it as being fitted and adapted itself atomatically.  The image was probably slightly...

Godfrey we are in complete agreement and I add that I always find learning something new a happy challenge.  I hope each day to find something that I did not know the day before.  (smile) I guess...

Felix Happy is he who enjoys using is camera whether it is automatic or not.  If you enjoy the innards and setting things then the GXR (or the GRD/GR) can be as involving as a good book.  It is a...

Sounds pretty smart and well thoguht out. Being (probably older) I did dabble in the slr type.  But never had the money/time/wit/experience to take it very seriously.  The slr was a "feast days and...

Somewhere I saw something seemingly "authorative" that all the launch stocks will be shipped from the Phillipines (?) simultaneously on the 20th May.  But don't rely on what I am merely repeating...

You are generous! Yes it does seem that you like that focal length but I am sure another one as nice as the GR will be just too hard to resist (grin).

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