All in JPEG with a GRiii using different color/monotone, "macro" mode and the 50mm crop settings. Afterwards I set the camera down, picked up a book and read awhile.
That’s why I sold my GR. All my pics came out like snapshots. I tried shooting it on a tripod. I tried taking a pic with a 4x5 film camera with a 28mm equivalent lens and then taking the same shot with my GR. The 4x5 pic looked like something Ansel Adams would take but the GR pic STILL looked like a snapshot. I tried really hard but I just couldn’t stop shooting it like a phone. Something about the GR just won’t let me use it like other more serious cameras. I don’t have that same problem with the iPhone, I can get a fine art worthy pic out of it in nice light. But that GR…
carlosmcse wrote:
The problem with the Ricoh is just you shoot it like a phone so all the pictures look like phone pictures. Very “snapshotty”.
All these could’ve been taken with a modern iPhone. The bokeh you can get by shooting with the FOCOS app.
Like Eric Kim. I don’t know why he bothers. He should just get a new iPhone and shoot with that.
Interesting discussion. I kind of feel the same way. There is something about how I shoot with the GR that gives me similar result. I think I’m just lazy. So my questions for you is: after selling the GR, have you found a good compromise? Or are you just shooting a 4x5 and an iPhone and nothing in between?
Oh boy, guess no one got my tongue-in-cheek post. An attempt to make fun of criticisms of the GR IQ. I’ll have to try harder next time.
It is one of the best 28mm lenses I’ve used, I’m amazed at GR quality. Colors are subjective and easily changed in post but I think the jpeg engine in the GR is really good.
I think the user interface is incredible as well. It is clearly designed by passionate photographers and brilliantly efficient once set up. I rarely see that mentioned among its strengths.
And I think the GR image thread is among the most interesting on FM, along with the RX1. I haven’t looked at it but I’d guess the Leica Q image thread is good as well.
Mitch Alland wrote:
My view is so different that what I would say "hogwash" — to both of these posts. I am, therefore, reposting below post that I posted this morning in an FM thread on the GRIII/GR:
While a few posts have already contradicted these statements, they are so far off from the reality of the GRIII/GRIIIx that I can't resist posting the following shots, which are all hand-held:
Out for a late afternoon bike ride a storm blew up. Just had to stop for a quick pic of this bucolic scene changing state. Then a quick sprint for home :-)
darrellc wrote:
Oh boy, guess no one got my tongue-in-cheek post. An attempt to make fun of criticisms of the GR IQ. I’ll have to try harder next time.
I had my suspicions it was sarcasm, but wasn't 100% sure!
Just to be clear, I never dismissed the image quality of the GR. That has never been in question. I was commenting on my observation that I tend to be lazy with a point and shoot, like the GR. I think it has more to do with the lack of viewfinder, and my laziness. I love my GR and am considering the GR IIIx. I just need to buckle down and focus on good composition so the GR can deliver what it is capable of.
