Ricoh GR or the GR IV

I watched the videos and all of them are a lot more of a process than a few screws and a blower brush

Show me otherwise

gans said:

I watched the videos and all of them are a lot more of a process than a few screws and a blower brush

Show me otherwise

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Ok, you may want a pair of tweezers to deal with the audio wires, but they’re no big deal. Other than that, one screwdriver and a blower is all you need.

https://jamiecollinson.com/blog/disassembling-ricoh-gr-for-sensor-cleaning/

The GR III has no audio wires in the way and requires literally one screwdriver and a blower.

https://www.johnmaguire.me/blog/cleaning-ricoh-sensor-dust/

I’m ham-fisted with shaky hands, and I can comfortably manage both of these processes in around 20 minutes for the GR III and 30 for the GR.

Jeff Biscuits said:

gans said:

I watched the videos and all of them are a lot more of a process than a few screws and a blower brush

Show me otherwise

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Ok, you may want a pair of tweezers to deal with the audio wires, but they’re no big deal. Other than that, one screwdriver and a blower is all you need.

https://jamiecollinson.com/blog/disassembling-ricoh-gr-for-sensor-cleaning/

The GR III has no audio wires in the way and requires literally one screwdriver and a blower.

https://www.johnmaguire.me/blog/cleaning-ricoh-sensor-dust/

I’m ham-fisted with shaky hands, and I can comfortably manage both of these processes in around 20 minutes for the GR III and 30 for the GR.

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There is also the issue that a pristine GR whatever can be bought and the new owner can get dust of the sensor by the normal reflex action of pocketing it. Although there are other ways of getting dust in there pocketing is the most common issue.

I had a good (dust) run with a number of GRD/GR cameras by always using a belt-worn carry case but I admit to a couple of pocketings with my GR as the oem case, whilst very nice thick leather, was too bulky for discreet belt wear. Not long before I stopped using it I had noticed a dust bunny that could only be seen at minimum aperture with images of a clear sky.

Since found with a stuck shutter button that turned out to be a fairly major repair* I did not specifically ask for removal of the dust so I suspect that it will still be there. I will live with it.

* seems like there was a fair bit of corrosion inside but I don't remember it ever getting wet - unless I had loaned it to someone who had innocently just dried off the outside. Can't remember. In any case I will have a fully functioning GR with all necessary parts replaced and interior clean. Better than a piece of junk in a drawer.

I did get a Panasonic GM1 as wet as dunking it in a bucket of water on a cruise on Milford Sound in the South Island of New Zealand. I did dry it very carefully indeed and left it in warm indirect heat overnight before I opened any camera body doors. I was a passenger on the return trip to Te Anau and after drying the outside I worked the zoom in and out numerous times dry off the little drops of water sucked out.

10+ years later both camera and kit zoom lens are still looking and working like new. Perhaps proof that even not weather sealed camera bodies can be successfully molly-coddled after their wetting. I don't remember what happened to the GR.

Tom Caldwell said:

There is also the issue that a pristine GR whatever can be bought and the new owner can get dust of the sensor by the normal reflex action of pocketing it.

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That's my responsibility and lack if care which is very different to buying a camera with dust in it and having to repair it even before use. Yes i like shooting f8 +etc

I like getting everything or as much a s possible in focus , that's why I chose m43 and I shot/shoot film in the same manner. Bokeh never heard of the guy

gans said:

I like getting everything or as much a s possible in focus , that's why I chose m43 and I shot/shoot film in the same manner. Bokeh never heard of the guy

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Have you considered the small-sensor versions of the GR?

Jeff Biscuits said:

gans said:

I like getting everything or as much a s possible in focus , that's why I chose m43 and I shot/shoot film in the same manner. Bokeh never heard of the guy

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Have you considered the small-sensor versions of the GR?

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Lack of image quality and not much dynamic range to play with in post

gans said:

Jeff Biscuits said:

gans said:

I like getting everything or as much a s possible in focus , that's why I chose m43 and I shot/shoot film in the same manner. Bokeh never heard of the guy

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Have you considered the small-sensor versions of the GR?

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Lack of image quality and not much dynamic range to play with in post

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Even the original GRD did raw but the recording time of each frame was very slow. I think that I only ever processed one raw image from it. But family will be here over the next few days I might try my luck with my Ricoh GRD/GR cameras - The GR came back from professional repair - would have been an ouch price for you but it was better than writing it off. Same day I am advised that my GRIV has been shipped. Another ouch price but it is la creme de la creme of the GRD/GR range. They each have their strong and not so strong points.

Soon I will have quite an investment in GRD/GR bodies even after giving the GRDIII to a son and the GX100 (zoom) to a granddaughter. Left with just a GRD, GRDIV, GR, GRIV seems a good mix and mathematical matching..