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Ricoh is working a niche, phones aren't competition for a camera that was never mainstream in the first place. GR users are often more hardcore camera geeks than users of other (new) brands.

If the "AI" can pick the correct subject it may just as well focus on it?

The problem is that no sorry ass algo pretending to be AI can know what it is you want to focus on. Therein lies the...

Sigmoid is a big deal imho.

Compresses all your cameras dynamic range into output gamut with no strange effects or hdr look. A set and forget module that allows the other tools, such as tone...

Ricoh has promised no to release any new models unless they have really good improvements to make. I'm not kidding and I applaud that decision.

What I don't get is how anyone interested in photography has missed how much editorial and advertising photography is shot on film these days. You can't have missed this fact if you have *any*...

dmanthree the worst possible business decision right now would be putting resources into milc. It's a crowded market in decline. Pentax standout skills have always been mechanical and optical...

Mr Kobayashi most of your proposals would just produce another milc, A sure way to undermine what they have built with the GR brand over so many years. Their GR statement is very good as it is. One...

This is what all those "horse cart" economist completely fail to understand. That economist meme fail to account for that horses are very much still around... despite being mostly useless.

The open source tools darktable and Rawtherapee have tools aimed at HDR. Are you saying that in general SDR curves or clipping is forced onto the output without user control?

The problem for the...

https://youtu.be/IS3Mkaie8Ic?t=365

^ Shows Pentax discussing their monochrome sensor K-3 III prototype. Not Fuji, but Pentax may well put one out.

I don't quite get it. Surely any raw editor works in HDR+ behind the scenes and only smashes it down to SRGB or whatnot for display and export (when told to). Most raw editors can output tiffs with...

Nevermind the appropriateness of calling something so postprocessed a photo. The aesthetics are quite mindboggling. All of them could feature a spacesuit clad actionman or a bikiniarmoured...

You have missed or mixed up the topic of the thread as well as my post. It's not about the look of printed or otherwise finished photos but the view of the subject whilst taking a photo. I'm aware ...

It's not as ugly as the data but theoretically as ugly as the sooc processing. The ugliness of the EVF view doesn't affect the results but it does affect the enjoyment of photography. Somehow the ...

The thing that I find most offputting with evf's is the whitebalance. Second thing is the lack of subtlety in the colour and contrast.  It just looks ugly compared to what you see with your eyes.

fferreres RT doesn't have a duplicate file function. There is a work around when doing alternative edits.
1. Edit RAW IMG001.RAW
2. Export file (jpeg) IMG001.jpg
3. Rename IMG001.RAW.pp3...

Just a thought about the decision to use the K-3III as the base. Pentax and the GR's have a new firmware based on the same framework in the K-3III and GRIII models. By using the K-3III they can ...

fferreres preset functionality is naturally a bit limited since it's local edits. What you can do is create, position and size a spot of the appropriate type. Then apply the tools to the spot and...

If you use the "Single editor tab" view (the default that can be changed in preferences "General") the editing window can't be closed. Consider it a workbench. It's always there, you just bring new...

There are lots of nice new features. Rawtherapee standout features some new for this release are imho.

The new tools to manage dynamic range/exposure:
1. Abstract profile - Gamma/slope sliders...