I had X100v for very long time. I prefer Ricoh jpeg color. It’s sharper as well. It’s so small I carry the camera everywhere I go.
One from my recent trip to Great Wall. SOOC, pro neg
Activatedfx wrote:
Hey all-
I've always been intrigued by the GR series for its amazing IQ and tiny size, but I wasn't a 28mm fan. I recently found out the GR IIIx was a 40mm equiv. and, along with the option of a 75mm tele converter, my interest was piqued again. Looking around at images on the net, Insta, etc., including this amazing thread, I was blown away by the images I saw and got the bug to try a GR x.
Found a nice GR IIIx Urban on eBay and went for it. After acquainting myself with all the setup and simulation options, I took it out on its maiden voyage today.
I have to say I am blown away. I recently had a Fuji X100V, but sold it because I wasn't loving the IQ. The GR images are much sharper and more detailed. More like FF images. And the in-camera recipes are better (for me) than the X100 offerings. Very happy so far.
A few from Brooklyn Heights, NYC. Color shots are using a "Leica look" setting I found on YouTube, and the B/W shots are Ritchie's Recipies / Black & White Negative.
A couple from Brooklyn Bridge Park today. GR3x + GT-2 Tele converter. I taped off the contacts on the GA-2 adaptor so the camera wouldn't auto crop to 75mm.
The un-cropped 60mm edges and corners are definitely not great, but not terrible. In Lightroom you need to turn on both the normal Gr3x lens correction checkbox AND slide the distortion correction to +200 in order to get the image reasonably flat! But I'm going to keep the tape on. I'd rather have to correct and/or be able to crop later. (These are all un-cropped.)
Eye Spy with Lower Manhattan in the background. Not hating the bokeh! Very similar to my Zeiss Contax lenses.
Pier 2, Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Access door under the BQE on Furman St. The BQE (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway) is going to be torn down along this strip, and these old access doors are just too interesting not to document them before they are gone forever!
Mitch Alland wrote:
Noon in the bright and intense tropical light of Thailand. It's so bright outside that your eyes hurt when you're not wearing sunglasses. This is a lighting situation that always interests me, for which you don't need a 60MP sensor. Come to think of it: I never have needed more than 24 MP.
24 is enough for me too. Which makes me wonder, with rumours abound that there is a successor to the GR III coming soon, what improvement are there to make?
Weather/dust sealing would be nice. I put thin stickers over the microphone holes on my 3x, and have the JJC stick-on UV filter to help with dust ingestion.
24mp is plenty. I am blown away by the IQ of the GR. More like full frame IQ.
