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I am looking for a two camera solution. the Ricoh GR for 28mm and 21mm with the adapter and then one other camera for a longer focal length.

Considering:

SONY RX100 - Already Have

Olympus E-PM2 with Oly 45mm / 1.8

Fuji x-E1 with 18-55

Canon EOS-M or SL1 with 18-55 or 50mm

Nikon D5100 with 50mm

Sigma DP3M (Perfect sensor and focal length. )

Any thoughts? Also what works for your scenario?
 
Hello

with all due respect , it is hard to advise you without knowing what kind of focal length you like or what kind of pictures you do

One advantage of the sigma dpm's ( all three) is that it accepts the same battery and battery charger than the GR.

as you probably know the sigma dpm's are not made for high ISO ( practical limit is 400 isoin color and maybe up to 800 in B&W)

Harold
 
I would like a 28mm and an 85mm. However anywhere in the 75mm to 100mm range would be fine.

I like to shoot everything. The longer focal length camera would double as a portrait camera as well as other duties. I try and mix up my photography with a wide range of subjects.
 
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The Ricoh GR is your compact, portable friend, and to some extend with some cropping can give you some "zoom"...

To me personally, I would want a system with interchangeable lenses. I now have an Panasonic Lumix GH2, but the sensor and speed of my Ricoh exceeds my GH2. I'm thinking about buying the X-E1 within a couple of months: the 18-55 is a superb lens (so I read), and they have some nice primes for longer focal length.
 
Without knowing more about your shooting preferences and subject matter, it really is quite impossible to say.

I would probably be going with a system camera with a few lenses in your situation, I mean you are already carrying a GR, and adaptor and wants to add another camera. A system camera with a few small lenses may end up being more compact to carry.

Alternatively stick with the RC100 if the quality of the images suffice for what you want to do.

Personally, the GR is my go everywhere camera, 7 different countries traveled since i received it. The 28-35mm perspective just syncs with my view of the world, thus it is what I primary use or have used in a variety of configurations over time.

When travelling I often have a Pentax Optio VS80 with me too though, but I only use it to fun document my runs, occationally clipped to my climbing harness if I cannot bring a bigger camera or when in the water.

For professional work I have a nikon system build around the D800e, but I do not always bring it.

I just do not need longer forby far most of my personal stuff and for the rare occations where I do, I can always grab my nikon rig.

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Prime85 said:
Prime85 wrote:

I would like a 28mm and an 85mm. However anywhere in the 75mm to 100mm range would be fine.

I like to shoot everything. The longer focal length camera would double as a portrait camera as well as other duties. I try and mix up my photography with a wide range of subjects.
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Have you considered Nikon's smaller sensor N1 cameras? They get a lot out of their cameras and sensors and the lenses are uniformly very good to excellent. The new, fairly expensive 32mm f/1.2 lens was designed with portraiture in mind and it's the focal length equivalent of an 86mm lens. You already have the wide end covered with the GR's 28mm and 21mm with an adapter, but the N1 has another extremely high quality lens, the 6.7-13mm (equivalent to 18-35mm) so it can go much wider and a little longer much more conveniently, and surprisingly for a wide angle zoom, it has Nikon's VR stabilization. There should be a V3 coming soon to update the 14mp V2 and it may have an improved sensor. Here are a couple of "hands on" type reviews of these two lenses. The V2 and the older V1 are about the size of Fuji's X10/X20, and the other N1 bodies are slightly smaller, but they don't have the V1/V2's very usable high res. EVFs, so they're all larger than the GR but not by a lot, depending on the lens they're used with. Fuji's much larger X cameras with the APS-C sensors are also much more expensive, shoot much slower, and sometimes have focusing issues, but when they don't, their images are very nice.

http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2013/...e-nikon-6-7-13mm-lens-review-on-the-nikon-v1/

http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2013/07/22/the-nikon-1-system-nikkor-32-1-2-lens-review/
 
Yeah, I'd say go for the DP3M because it is just too cool to pass up - even if not the most "practical" relative to some of your other choices (and the suggestions already posted). I purchased a DP2M just before the DP3M was announced and while I love the DP2m, I would have gone for the DP3M first as a great portrait and macro solution that would compliment the GR well, for me at least.

It never ceases to amaze me when I open files from the DP2 M taken under optimal conditions and processed through SPP - well worth the "hassles", perceived and real.
 
I think the GR and Leica X Vario are a perfect pair.
 
I am considering a similar two-camera setup for an upcoming trip in late September. Like you I have a GR and the GW-3 21mm conversion lens. Other cameras that I have are: Fujifilm X-Pro1, Sony RX100, Ricoh GXR A16 24-85mm kit.

I think I will be most likely go with the following setup for the trip:

GR and GW-3 to cover the wide-angle side, X-Pro1 with XF55-200 lens most of the time. But I will also pack the XF18-55 zoom as a standby. For the purpose of traveling light, I will leave the XF18/2 and XF35/1.4 at home.

If my wife doesn't mind carrying a camera I'd probably give her the GXR A16 24-85mm kit. That's a very useful focal range. :)

Peter
 
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Pete Fang wrote:

I am considering a similar two-camera setup for an upcoming trip in late September. Like you I have a GR and the GW-3 21mm conversion lens. Other cameras that I have are: Fujifilm X-Pro1, Sony RX100, Ricoh GXR A16 24-85mm kit.

I think I will be most likely go with the following setup for the trip:

GR and GW-3 to cover the wide-angle side, X-Pro1 with XF55-200 lens most of the time. But I will also pack the XF18-55 zoom as a standby. For the purpose of traveling light, I will leave the XF18/2 and XF35/1.4 at home.

If my wife doesn't mind carrying a camera I'd probably give her the GXR A16 24-85mm kit. That's a very useful focal range. :)

Peter
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Prime85 said:
Prime85 wrote:

I am looking for a two camera solution. the Ricoh GR for 28mm and 21mm with the adapter and then one other camera for a longer focal length.

Considering:

SONY RX100 - Already Have

Olympus E-PM2 with Oly 45mm / 1.8

Fuji x-E1 with 18-55

Canon EOS-M or SL1 with 18-55 or 50mm

Nikon D5100 with 50mm

Sigma DP3M (Perfect sensor and focal length. )

Any thoughts? Also what works for your scenario?
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for me, the sigma and small m4/3 body with 45mm are most interesting. But to be honest, if i chose olympus, I would probably get rid of the gr (despite all advantages it has over oly) and just get panasonic 14mm and keep it simple.

if you need the second camera mainly for portraiture and dont care so much about compact size, I'd say that used Canon 5d mkI with 85/1.8 usm is hard to beat price/performance
 
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If you're after better image quality with a bit more size, the Fuji X combination fits the bill. If you want a smaller camera with great speed and a touch less, but still excellent image quality, the E-PM2 with 45mm is a super choice.

If I were letting the GR handle wide angle duties, I'd probably use the GXR M-module and Zeiss Sonnar 50/1.5 as my long lens. Its an amazing package for portraits and a more compressed view, and the bokeh is glorious. Actually, with the GXR, Zeiss and a Voigtlander 15mm, you may not even need the GR!
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