GRD IV official

sphexx said:

rondom said:

60 months since first release... 300,000 grd's around? Wow.
We have about 10,000 grd's per forum poster.
Or...
Forum posters are .00001% of all grd users.
I think it is latter...
No wonder they never listen to our requests.

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I think from what I have read that most of them are probably in Japan where Ricoh is a more popular make.

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anthony mazzeri said:

rondom said:

Milky dreamy buttery bokeh...

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iaredatsun said:

When I look at the full sized picture of the IV used in the hands-on preview of this site :



.. I think how fantastic that camera still looks. The same thrill I got when the GRD I first came out and I was hooked by it's hardcore stealth look & feel. The 'I want to pick it up and use it right now' look of confidence and promise. Timeless.

It'll be remembered as an exemplary functional design classic one day and it's hard to think in those terms with regards many (any?) other digital cameras.

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rondom said:

I'm with you...I like their persistence in design, very much...

One of the key aspect of turning a good design to a classic, though, is to insist on it...
Pana lc1, was a very nice camera too..too bad they dropped it.

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Pangloss said:

sphexx said:

rondom said:

60 months since first release... 300,000 grd's around? Wow.
We have about 10,000 grd's per forum poster.
Or...
Forum posters are .00001% of all grd users.
I think it is latter...
No wonder they never listen to our requests.

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I think from what I have read that most of them are probably in Japan where Ricoh is a more popular make.

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The Japanese domestic market represents more than 90% of Ricoh's digital camera sales. And I believe that Tom (Caldwell) was correct when he wrote that Ricoh manufactures their cameras in batches, so I doubt the 300,000 number is correct, probably less than half that number would be a better estimate, say 120,000 out of which only 5% were exported all over the world, i.e. 6000 cameras. Discount the older GRD's and GRDII's that were already lost, damaged or simply forgotten in a drawer, and that would explain why so few posters here on dpreview actually own one.

There is a relatively active GRD community on Flickr, though.
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Andrew
Panasonic LX3, Ricoh GXR w/ A12 28&50mm user

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rondom said:

Interesting. So where do the Japanese users talk about their beloved camera? Any forums? With google translate it should be easy enough to follow their conversation. Are they asking or better sensors, new prime lenses, tele converters just like us...
Do they have armchair CEO's, I wonder...

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