Post anything either about Ricoh or other subject that you've always wanted to post but for some reason have not. Let's keep things civil and no religion or politics as The Man is still around...and watching.
Ok, I'll go first, please give me all of your email addresses so we can continue to discuss what we want or don't want on any upcoming GRIV.
Just kidding but since we're all going to scatter to other websites on April 11th I will miss the knowledge and expertise of those of you who have owned a GR since the beginning and have seen the progression of the model.
I will be curious to learn after yesterday's announcement, if Ricoh, and its GR Blog, will ramp things up and provide a forum for GR users. This would also allow Ricoh direct access to users' comments.
PS-I wonder what JPEG Recipe would best represent the demise of DPReview. I suppose it would be something dark.
There's so much to tell.
I have a Ricoh thanks to this site. I have learned not to care about gear, ironically, also thanks to this site.
I find this place to be a great repository of knowledge. So many questions, hypothetical or practical, that i've had about my gear, postprocessing software, gear I considered buying, gear I never considered buying but analysed in depth because I'm an eejit academic at heart, are all in here. It's a huge loss. But there's silver linings in everything. The day all this is lost, we'll also lose countless of pointless conversations about how full frame is better - it isn't. How smaller sensors are worse - they aren't. How M4/3 is dead and one has to be daft to buy into that nowadays - it is not and they are not. How Sony is the end all - it is not. And then the other hyper-vocal fanbase from Fuji, saying it is not Sony but Fuji that is the end all, and that it sensor size does not matter, though they secretly keep hoping that Fuji would magically go full frame - it is not, it is not, and they most definitely are.
I will not miss conversations about ultimate sharpness and pixelpeeping, with armchair photographers who seek such thin depth of field that nothing is actually in focus but the macula inside the right eye of the subject, making the most boring portraits that will be forgotten by everyone after a few months.
I will not miss Ricoh conversations about the dust issue. I'm at my third GR III (Having gone III > IIIx > III) And given I just got that one, this latter one has no dust. The other two did. I never found that to be an issue. Having said that, I will miss my puzzlement whenever I see the picture of dust spots in some users' Ricohs: seemingly a sea of dust spots, more closely resembling grain than anything else given their high number and density: How did you manage to do that?!
I will not miss the repeated wishes for the GR to go bigger and include a mediocre EVF. Our beautiful GRs are perfect as they are. I say that, but I'll probably be first in line when the IV is released (I pray it will be in a long time given I just got the Diary Edition).
Most of all, I will miss forest dream.
It's been a blast, folks. It is a huge pity this is happening. I am moderately disillusioned about this but I'm sure I'll survive. I really liked the Ricoh community. I hope you all move to the GR forum. It is more or less a tabula rasa there now. We have the chance to make it what this forum has been. It's been so much nicer than the fuji one here: everyone (almost) is friendly. There's been a true sense of camaraderie.
