Spray paint requires little r&d and engineering...
True but just look how long it can take to choose which one of the 16.7m colours available to use.
And of course you have to figure out how to apply it to DPR's plastic body so as not to have a chemical reaction. (The word "PLASTIC" seems to have been edited out of the review since I first read it).
Ricoh, where is my 40 mm converter redesigned to work with grd3/4?
As I mentioned earlier I am not convinced about converters or interchangeable lenses either for that matter. Not saying that the converter degrades the image or anything like that and interchangeable lenses do do the job but its the weight they put on your mind and the possible loss of the photographic opportunity while you decide what to do, and then of course you have to carry them around.
With a built in short range zoom you don't have that problem, these days I think most zooms are adequately designed so the major problem is the loss of the fast aperture.
A pair of GRD's with 28mm and 40mm lenses is still relatively light weight and would cover most opportunities with the benefit of specifically designed fixed focal length fast lenses.
These days I find I am leaving the DSLR and lenses at home more and more and settling for the CX1 and EX1 combination.
Maybe I'm not picky enough but I don't worry anymore about sensor size or noise etc.
Wandering off the topic but there you are.
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CD
