Enjoying these B&Ws Peter with the Ricoh. How are you enjoy that form and ergonomics from a
1 use-ability, but also
2.sense of attachment to the image?
Thank you Andrew, and glad you’re finding these of interest. To answer your questions:
I’m satisfied with the usability, though I’ve had to adapt to the camera because I’m used to shooting with a viewfinder. Composing on the back LCD at arm’s length is decidedly different, and sometimes I even have the LCD turned entirely off (taking advantage of the 28mm FOV inclusiveness in combination with being close to the subject to gamble that what I wanted to get I got).
On the plus side,the usability envelope is increased by a few things, like the size of the camera (which is not intimidating to people around me and I look like somebody’s grandpa taking a photo on a point-and-shoot from 2004), the “Sn” (the dedicated snap focus setting on the dial) which takes the DOF you’ve dialed in and adjusts the f stop to accommodate that) to essentially have everything in focus, so you bypass AF entirely for quick shooting. When combined with the high ISO capability of the Monochrome, it means I’m never running into ISO limits when shooting at f/8, etc.), and the high degree of customization available for camera controls. I’m convinced that if Henri Cartier-Bresson was alive today, he’d be shooting with a Ricoh GR and not a Leica.
Regarding “sense of attachment to the image”, if I’m reading that correctly, you’re asking if the end result is pleasing enough to me to be glad I shot that moment with this camera, and I have to say, the answer is yes. More so with the Monochrme than with the regular GR, because although the latter produces stellar image quality, the monochrome is definitely a notch above.
Hope that makes sense.
Thanks Peter – yes that is spot on and what I meant by my second question. It’s where the the image, the tool and sense of feeling it gives us. Rangefinders are very strong in this concept.
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Enjoying these B&Ws Peter with the Ricoh. How are you enjoy that form and ergonomics from a
1 use-ability, but also
2.sense of attachment to the image?
Thank you Andrew, and glad you’re finding these of interest. To answer your questions:
On the plus side,the usability envelope is increased by a few things, like the size of the camera (which is not intimidating to people around me and I look like somebody’s grandpa taking a photo on a point-and-shoot from 2004), the “Sn” (the dedicated snap focus setting on the dial) which takes the DOF you’ve dialed in and adjusts the f stop to accommodate that) to essentially have everything in focus, so you bypass AF entirely for quick shooting. When combined with the high ISO capability of the Monochrome, it means I’m never running into ISO limits when shooting at f/8, etc.), and the high degree of customization available for camera controls. I’m convinced that if Henri Cartier-Bresson was alive today, he’d be shooting with a Ricoh GR and not a Leica.
Hope that makes sense.
Thanks Peter – yes that is spot on and what I meant by my second question. It’s where the the image, the tool and sense of feeling it gives us. Rangefinders are very strong in this concept.