darrellc wrote:
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.
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:
GRIII | ISO 100 | f/2.8 | 1/40 sec | Using 50 mm in-camera crop mode Wier, Netherlands
darrellc wrote:
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.
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:
GRIII | ISO 100 | f/2.8 | 1/40 sec | Using 50 mm in-camera crop mode Wier, Netherlands
