steveashe wrote:
Nice images Mitch! Are you able to provide an update on your thoughts on the GRIII (or anyone else that owns that camera)? I owned a GRII for a while and used it 1st extensively on a couple of trips to Europe and Greece and I remember liking it very much. The GR III looks like a winner - except for the battery life and slow focus in low light. The non tilt screen is not a problem and neither is lack of built in flash. I don’t remember the battery being terrible on the GR II but I always walk around with a spare in any case. I’ve read some user reports that it is absymal.
Whaddaya think?
Steve, thanks - Haven't been able to shoot enough for a review. All I can say is that I like the GR III and will keep it, although I never buy a camera with the idea that I might return it. As stated earlier, I don't want an articulated LCD and don't need flash. I like the color rendition and also the B&W I can get from the DNG files. The IBIS works well: the picture of the Gauguin painting at the Louis Vuitton Foundation exhibition, The Courtauld Collection: A Vision for Impressionism, was taken at 1/15th second, and I've had good results at ¼ second. The auto-focus worked quickly for this image because there were sharp edges. Generally, though, in low, flat light the auto-focus is slow, substantially slower than that of the GRD IV. Some people think that Ricoh will improve this with a firmware upgrade. I don't know, but whenever I shoot fast I use Snap Focus.
On the battery life, the dealer tells me that users report that it increases after a few charges. I have that impression as well but am not sure because I've haven't shot enough to have to change batteries on the same day I started using it.I have one spare and will have to see if I'll need another one.
I've tried a few shots with the 35 and 50 mm crops. The 35 mm one has no issue for me, and the 50 mm may be fine for me, but I haven't tried it enough under different light conditions. In the second image below the focus is on the 100-year old embossing press at about 1 meter so the sweater, substantially closer, is out of focus at f/2.8. (This picture was taken at ISO 100, but it seems that the base ISO is 200 and that 100 is a pull.)
I haven't had time to try out the 21mm EFOV wide-converter.
Ricoh GRD III | ISO 400 | f/2.8 | 1/15 sec
Paris
Ricoh GRD III | ISO 100 | f/2.8 | 1/40 sec | 50mm EFOV crop setting
Wier, Friesland, Netherlands
steveashe wrote:
Nice images Mitch! Are you able to provide an update on your thoughts on the GRIII (or anyone else that owns that camera)? I owned a GRII for a while and used it 1st extensively on a couple of trips to Europe and Greece and I remember liking it very much. The GR III looks like a winner - except for the battery life and slow focus in low light. The non tilt screen is not a problem and neither is lack of built in flash. I don’t remember the battery being terrible on the GR II but I always walk around with a spare in any case. I’ve read some user reports that it is absymal.
Whaddaya think?
Steve, thanks - Haven't been able to shoot enough for a review. All I can say is that I like the GR III and will keep it, although I never buy a camera with the idea that I might return it. As stated earlier, I don't want an articulated LCD and don't need flash. I like the color rendition and also the B&W I can get from the DNG files. The IBIS works well: the picture of the Gauguin painting at the Louis Vuitton Foundation exhibition, The Courtauld Collection: A Vision for Impressionism, was taken at 1/15th second, and I've had good results at ¼ second. The auto-focus worked quickly for this image because there were sharp edges. Generally, though, in low, flat light the auto-focus is slow, substantially slower than that of the GRD IV. Some people think that Ricoh will improve this with a firmware upgrade. I don't know, but whenever I shoot fast I use Snap Focus.
On the battery life, the dealer tells me that users report that it increases after a few charges. I have that impression as well but am not sure because I've haven't shot enough to have to change batteries on the same day I started using it.I have one spare and will have to see if I'll need another one.
I've tried a few shots with the 35 and 50 mm crops. The 35 mm one has no issue for me, and the 50 mm may be fine for me, but I haven't tried it enough under different light conditions. In the second image below the focus is on the 100-year old embossing press at about 1 meter so the sweater, substantially closer, is out of focus at f/2.8. (This picture was taken at ISO 100, but it seems that the base ISO is 200 and that 100 is a pull.)
I haven't had time to try out the 21mm EFOV wide-converter.
Ricoh GRD III | ISO 400 | f/2.8 | 1/15 sec
Paris
Ricoh GRD III | ISO 100 | f/2.8 | 1/40 sec | 50mm EFOV crop setting
Wier, Friesland, Netherlands
steveashe wrote:
Nice images Mitch! Are you able to provide an update on your thoughts on the GRIII (or anyone else that owns that camera)? I owned a GRII for a while and used it 1st extensively on a couple of trips to Europe and Greece and I remember liking it very much. The GR III looks like a winner - except for the battery life and slow focus in low light. The non tilt screen is not a problem and neither is lack of built in flash. I don’t remember the battery being terrible on the GR II but I always walk around with a spare in any case. I’ve read some user reports that it is absymal.
Whaddaya think?
Steve, thanks - Haven't been able to shoot enough for a review. All I can say is that I like the GR III and will keep it, although I never buy a camera with the idea that I might return it. As stated earlier, I don't want an articulated LCD and don't need flash. I like the color rendition and also the B&W I can get from the DNG files. The IBIS works well: the picture of the Gauguin painting at the Louis Vuitton Foundation exhibition, The Courtauld Collection: A Vision for Impressionism, was taken at 1/15th second, and I've had good results at ¼ second. The auto-focus worked quickly for this image because there were sharp edges. Generally, though, in low, flat light the auto-focus is slow, substantially slower than that of the GRD IV. Some people think that Ricoh will improve this with a firmware upgrade. I don't know, but whenever I shoot fast I use Snap Focus.
On the battery life, the dealer tells me that users report that it increases after a few charges. I have that impression as well but am not sure because I've haven't shot enough to have to change batteries on the same day I started using it.I have one spare and will have to see if I'll need another one.
I've tried a few shots with the 35 and 50 mm crops. The 35 mm one has no issue for me, and the 50 mm may be fine for me, but I haven't tried it enough under different light conditions. In the second image below the focus is on the 100-year old embossing press at about 1 meter so the sweater, substantially closer, is out of focus at f/2.8. (This picture was taken at ISO 100, but it seems that the base ISO is 200 and that 100 is a pull.)
I haven't had time to try out the 21mm EFOV wide-converter.
Ricoh GRD III | ISO 400 | f/2.8 | 1/15 sec
Paris
Ricoh GRD III | ISO 100 | f/2.8 | 1/40 sec | 50mm EFOV crop setting
Wier, Friesland, Netherlands
Mar 30, 2019 at 02:47 PM
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