Mitch Alland
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 p.14 #8 · Still no love for the Ricoh GXR? | |
kosmoskatten wrote:
...The market seems to settle on 16MP for a while on APS-C which is a good thing. I sincerely think it is maturing and few people would need more than that. Even the 12MP on the GXR M does a marvelous job of course...
If you already have the lenses the GXR M is a cheaper platform than the X1 Pro...
I have the Fuji X10 and it is a great little traveling camera that has surprised me. Still, menu juggling is a far cry from Ricoh cameras which still are, in my book, class leading.
Henrik,
My favorite focal lengths on an FF basis are 21, 28 and 40mm. With the GXR-M, I have settled on using the CV15, Elmarit-21 and the Summicron-28, with the latter giving me f/2.0 — although I haven't tried my Summoron-35v4 enough yet. Also, I've always liked the look the Summilux-50 pre-ASPH gives on film and, so, have shot with it a bit on the GXR-M, also because sometime it's good to have f/1.4. However, the resulting 75mm focal length is too long for my taste — same thing with the DR Summicron, which I also like. At first, I thought the perspective of the CV15 would be excessive for me, but that has not roved a problem and it si a good lens, although I still prefer the look I get with the Elmarit-21 ASPH.
The point of all this is that, if I were getting an APS-C camera, I wouldn't mind lenses designed for a 1.5x crop factor, such as the ones for the Fuji X1 Pro, although I don't need autofocus and prefer to focus manually or to pre-fucus for street photography using a focus rich on the lens. The other thing is that there is something about being able to shoot a lens like the Elmarit-21 ASPH or the Summilux-50 the way it was designed, so, at the end of the day, I would prefer a camera with an FF sensor, although I think currently the GXR-M is the camera I can make do with and, as I've written elsewhere, I certainly prefer it to the M8.2 that I had.
My other thoughts these days are that I still love the Ricoh GRD3 for street photography, preferring not to use an OVF but roughly framing with the LCD and looking directly at the subject when pressing the shutter, because this, and the huge DOF, encourages a fluid shooting style that I like — as in the series below my signature here. So far I find this type of style hard to achieve either with my old M6 or the GXR-M. although I might get there with the latter and the Elmarit-21.
—Mitch/Paris
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I am still looking at those ZM lenses and the A12 module. Do you remember the ISO level of the picture you take with the ZM 35/2? Looks a tiny bit grainy but quite clean in my opinion 