Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dick, I've had the Ricoh digital GR for about six months. Wonderful walk around camera with the macro giving images of walking around inside flowers. As you mentioned, higher ISO speeds have noise but film has almost the same effect as grain. Raw writing speeds are slow but I mainly use it for JPG images where it writes quickly to the SD card. I tried the Leica 28mm viewfinder but changed to the smaller Voigtlander model. The Leica finder's large size blocks the flash from popping up. Sometimes fill in flash during the day helps an image. Overall, I am impressed with the camera more than any other zoom point and shoot digital. I would recommend a spare battery for travel. Best regards, Richard Clompus On Jul 23, 2006, at 10:15 PM, Richard S. Taylor wrote: > The camera, for those of you not familiar with it, has a fixed > 5.9mm (28mm equivalent) f2.4 lens and is about the same size as a > Stylus Epic, my long-time favorite carry-everywhere camera. > > These are all full frame as they came out of the camera (no levels > adjustment, no color adjustment, no adjustments at all) except for > slight crops in two of them. . > > 1, 2 - Serious conversation in a Barnes and Noble Cafe. Auto white > balance, daylight and tungsten mix. ISO 200 f2.4. The first is > cropped to about a 35mm equivalent focal-length shot. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/0010076_web > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/0010078_web > > 3 - Blossom found in a niche in the bathroom of a Japanese > restaurant. Macro mode, point auto focus, ISO 400, f2.4, auto > white balance. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/0010140_web > > 4 - A different kind on "blossom," the "Big Pleasure Point" > sculpture Lincoln Center, around midnight. Stage lighting, auto > white balance, ISO 800, f2.4 > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/0010161_web > > 5 - My son, in a bar, after we saw "The Drowsy Chaperone" (as a > birthday gift). > In camera B&W, ISO 1600, f2.4, tungsten light. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/0010156_web > > 6 - Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, again, around > midnight. slight crop left side. In camera B&W, ISO 1600, f2.4. > The neon sign highlights are not as badly burned out in the > original file as they appear to be in this low-res image. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/NYC/0010168_rot_web > > I don't find the noise in these ISO 1600 shots as objectionable as > some others have found it. It's just high- speed grain to me. > > Leica content due to use of a Leitz 28mm finder, though all these > shots were framed with the LCD which seems to have remarkably low > lag. I think my Stylus Epic is about to be retired. > > Comments welcome, as always. > -- > Regards, > > Dick > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information