How much difference is there between images produced by a GR Monochrome and by a regular GR. To me online, there appears to be a difference in sharpness and possibly a difference in tonality. Dynamic ranges and shadow/highlight detail?
Hue difference in noise IMO, I can run MUCH higher ISOs and the little bit of noise I do get is very pleasing. My GR IV Mono has the auto-ISO max set to 12,800 and I never regret going that high.
chiron wrote:
How much difference is there between images produced by a GR Monochrome and by a regular GR. To me online, there appears to be a difference in sharpness and possibly a difference in tonality. Dynamic ranges and shadow/highlight detail?
Can any users of the cameras comment?
I've owned both the GR IV and GR IV Mono and was able to directly compare, and kept the Mono.
As stated above, better high ISO performance. Also sharper files (note the regular GR IV is already impressively sharp) and more malleable files in post. Of course, you lose out on colour and even for B&W conversations that can be useful. But the pros of having a camera that I can carry everywhere and use in virtually every lighting situation outweigh even this negative, for me.
Prosophos wrote:
I've owned both the GR IV and GR IV Mono and was able to directly compare, and kept the Mono.
As stated above, better high ISO performance. Also sharper files (note the regular GR IV is already impressively sharp) and more malleable files in post. Of course, you lose out on colour and even for B&W conversations that can be useful. But the pros of having a camera that I can carry everywhere and use in virtually every lighting situation outweigh even this negative, for me.
Yes, that is a close call for me. I shoot Sony and very often do convert to b&w, but I still like to access color. I would use the camera for candid, casual but deliberate photos of family in the midst of life, travel, and some street, though the street shooting is mainly a sub-category of when I am traveling. I do like to do a lot of low light shooting. But I think overall, the best choice for me is with color capacity. Thanks for the helpful input.
If I really love the camera, I could add an M version later.
I hiked to the top of Nevada Falls yesterday, and the GRIIIx is the perfect size camera to have along without weighing you down. My only real difficulty is my old eyes trying to see the screen in bright light. If I'd been able to see more clearly, I would have noticed auto ISO defaulting to 200 and would have changed that to 100.
For a sense of scale, the waterfall is 594 feet tall. There are a couple people in the frame at the top, but it's hard to find them when scaled to this size.
I continue being amazed by the image quality of this little camera.
