JJJRRR768
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Be fair now, include the price of a zoom and a VF if you want to do a proper price comparison.
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Having seen the GXR samples...
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carlos roncatti
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Really? shouldnt you check again? BTW, my m4/3 G1 sucks regarding DR. The A12 sensor will be a LOT better than m4/3. How do you fell about the rest? CA control and etc...and BTW again, i have a 20mm also...
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Indeed. Ricoh tweaks the AA filter for each lens/sensor combo, which of course cannot be done with a DSLR. Whether or not the end results can be attributed to this is to be determined, but the results are quite good.
Too bad you'll spend $1380 for a sorta' pocketable 50mm (equivalent) macro. Seems pretty high ... until you look at the Leica X1 which is $600 more and less flexible.
There is a difference between a 50mm equivalent and a 90mm equivalent lens. Besides, with Panasonic you have an almost unlimited number of macro lenses you can attach to the GF1. With Ricoh you are locked to one, from them.
Beyond that, the preview at http://www.quesabesde.com/noticias/ricoh-gxr-analisis,1_5814 says that the autofocus isn't as fast as the GF1, and dpreview itself noted pre-release AF issues: "We're not going to talk about the performance of the contrast detect autofocus in this preview as this is a pre-production camera (and ours has some serious focus issues that we hope are not going to be seen in the final shipping product)."
Ricoh is only manufacturing 5,000 of these a month. Don't expect to see one at a brick and mortar store, any more than you'd expect to see a Hasselblad or a Leica.
Not too sure how the GXR + 50mm module is more flexible than the X1, unless you are thinking of the potential to use different modules. But then, you'd have to spend more to get more modules, which kind of negates the price/flexibility comparison.
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Tim in upstate NY
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. . . If you reread what I said, you'll see that I did that.
Well, they are quite good compared to the size of the camera. It is however, as a system, almost as unusable as the Sigma cameras. To get the good sensor, you are fixed with a 50mm (75mm equiv?) prime lens... If you want other focal lengths you are given a compact type p&s sensor that does not make any better pictures than the lousy G11...
You can't use any lenses from any other systems, and you will be bound to either a mediocre lens and large sensor or a quite bad zoom lens and a compact sensor...
I really think Ricoh here have made a new system that takes the worst of both worlds! quality of a compact and practicality of large DSLR system...
For a system with such high hopes attached to it, I predict it will fail, utterly and completly.
Have you compared to the EP1 test shots?
I ask only because the test shots done by dpreview are ALWAYS lackluster.
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I ask only because the test shots done by dpreview are ALWAYS lackluster.
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