It's time to replace the carry around camera

Robert Garcia NYC wrote:

Louis_Dobson wrote:

Tom Caldwell wrote:

Robert Garcia NYC wrote:

Try a Ricoh GR II for a day the prices have dropped it has amazing handling and user experience and the image quality i feel is awesome.

Fully agreed, but I think the guys want to re-use their existing lenses. I would use my GR more if the fixed 28mm (FF Eq) prime wasn't a sometimes convenience compromise.

I must say it doesn't appeal to me at all. I generally shoot 14, 24, and 90mm (FF). A fixed 28 would be of no interest. I'm sure it makes a nice party camera, being good at high ISO with a fairly quick lens while being small and unobtrusive. Not what I'm after though.

LOL, that is exactly what I thought until I borrowed one for a few days. To each his own though

Louis knows exactly what he needs and it is not a fixed 28mm prime in a camera that has been made in this form (one way or another) for 10 years and has become a sort of cult camera type.  It is no party cam and makes images just as good as any other aps-c sensored camera that it can be stacked against with no apologies necessary. Compact, capable and very niche purpose.

Furthermore the user interface and firmware has been steadily improved over the year and it must be one of the most intuitive to use cameras ever made.  An there is always the single button press to achieve instant 35mm and 47mm sensor crop zoom. None of these crops is in Louis list either nor would a crop-sensor image (no matter how good it was) be likely to be satisfactory. All these are in FF equivalent focal length terms as it is customary for only 4/3 sensor users to refer in the correct focal lengths.  Even the crop advice coming up on the lcd of the GR says "35mm" and "47mm" (quite incorrectly and definitely not PC). Of course the lens itself proudly claims to be 18.3mm although "everyone" knows of it as "28mm".

Go figure.  I speak one language in one place and another when visiting, I am happy with that.

After months of playing with my excellent GM series camera I have my old friend the Ricoh GR out for a pat and cuddle and a few shots.  It is a marvellous thing when all your toys remain so pleasant to use.