Mitch Alland
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kosmoskatten wrote:
Mitch, hope all is well with you.
I will do a little digging and find it for you. 
...almost there...
Takes a lot of Google translating. It was a Japanese site with someone who was at one of the "GR Experience and Live Talk" events that were held about a week ago. I have found a few from the same event and I sort of recognize the "starting page" but finding the exact page proved harder than I thought.
....After reading a few google translated pages I feel I am losing my own grasp of English...
Thanks, Henrik. I did a Google search in Japanese for "リコー GR 森山大道 2013" and found the following:
http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20130417_596344.html
If you put that through Google Translate, you'll see a section on Moriyama Daido having participated in a Pentax-Ricoh presentation and discussion of the GR on 17 April in Tokyo. It states that he liked the camera's responsiveness: he seems to be saying that it's comparable in speed, size and convenience, and appropriate for his type of street photography, to the film GR cameras. ("Film camera" is "silver salt camera" in the translation"). The article also states that he'll have a large photo exhibition, with large prints, in Okinawa in January 2104, for which he'll start shooting seriously in Okinawa in May with the GR.
Incidentally, the translation of Google Translate has improved a lot: Moriyama Daido's name for which the kanji characters are "mountain-forest great-way" used to be translated as "Mr. Forest Boulevard" instead being transcribed as "Moriyama Daido".
I'm completing a five-week stay in Paris and returning to Bangkok on 1 June. I tried the new GR some days ago at a shop on the Boulevard Beaumarchais called L'Instantané. Marcel, the owner, is a great Ricoh GRD fan personally and my understanding is that he'll be receiving the largest shipment in Europe of the new GR. He's a very nice guy and I can recommended him if you are looking for this camera. I have no commercial ties to him whatsoever. I had gone to the Maison du Leica shop some 50 meters and way and dropped in to see him. I was somewhat in a hurry and his shop was full, so I spent only five minutes walking shooting with the camera in the street. It's great handling camera, with fast autofocus in good light — I didn't try AF in low light. I've been shooting with the M-Monochrom from last November to January, and since February with the M9-P. Being able to shoot one-handed with the new GR, was like a home-coming to my feelings of shooting with the GRD.
As I was rushed, I did not notice that the camera was set to JPG only, so I ended up not having any DNGs. The black and white JPGs have a very good tonality and are excellent at ISO1600. The color seems good: for my taste, just needing a slight contrast increase, but I cannot say any more than this.
I'm very tempted to get it when I get back to Bangkok. But I must say that these days I'm hung up on color: I love the color rendition of the M9 and, so far, have been looking skeptically at what's coming out of the M240 in this respect. Basically, my feeling is, as a photographer on LUF stated, that the M9 color rendition is more like that of color slide film while that of CMOS-sensor cameras, possibly including the M240, is more like color negative film. Yes, the critical thing may be the CFA and color model used and not whether the camera has a CCD or CMOS sensor, but I want to see what sort of color rendition the new GR has from DNGs before I decide whether to get one. But, in terms of handling and suitability for B&W street photography it seems like a fabulous camera.
—Mitch/Paris
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Edited on May 23, 2013 at 01:37 AM · View previous versions
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