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The GR concept video is great, but very factual. It relies on a sense of history, and outlines the presiding themes of the GR.

Daido Moriyama is one of the most publicly known users of the GR cameras. So what if Ricoh decided to capitalize on this in their advertising? It would look something like this.


The irony is that this was produced by Fujifilm Hong Kong for the promotion of the original X100.
 
Archiver said:
The GR concept video is great, but very factual. It relies on a sense of history, and outlines the presiding themes of the GR.

Daido Moriyama is one of the most publicly known users of the GR cameras. So what if Ricoh decided to capitalize on this in their advertising? It would look something like this.


The irony is that this was produced by Fujifilm Hong Kong for the promotion of the original X100.
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Great vid.

If only the X100 /s/t/f had Ricoh's implementation of snap mode.
 
Daido has used A LOT of different cameras. He made the GR famous, not the other way around.

Sometimes I feel GR's fanbase is a bit too obsessed with the whole "Daido's camera" thing.
 
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Woodyz said:
Sometimes I feel GR's fanbase is a bit too obsessed with the whole "Daido's camera" thing.
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The so-called "Leica inferiority complex" :-D
 
Woodyz said:
Daido has used A LOT of different cameras. He made the GR famous, not the other way around.

Sometimes I feel GR's fanbase is a bit too obsessed with the whole "Daido's camera" thing.
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IMO this is not entirely correct. The film GR were famous long before Daido touched one within the climbing and mountaineering users. The wide lens was useful up a cliff and small light weight meant they were easy to carry. That is where I first heard about them.
 
Woodyz said:
Daido has used A LOT of different cameras. He made the GR famous, not the other way around.

Sometimes I feel GR's fanbase is a bit too obsessed with the whole "Daido's camera" thing.
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Yeah, Daido has been shooting for a lot longer than the GR film cameras were around. Even in the digital age, he's shot with a Nikon zoom compact, and according to Tokyo Camera Style, he's now shooting with a Sony RX0!

 
Likely created by the same production company, here is the extended commercial for the Fuji X10, also in super dark Asian gothic style. Ricoh could learn a lot from this.


And here is a better quality, extended version of the X100 commercial above. Warning: NSFW.

 
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