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I have heard very very good things about the Ricoh GRIII on YouTube and Reddit and am about ready to pull the trigger to make photography fun again and have a camera that is truly always with me so I don't miss any special moments.

But recently I have checked some of the photos from the camera on Instagram and they seem really poor. The smearing is almost worse than an iPhone 15 Pro and it's a lot bigger and almost the same price. Has anyone here actually used one or have links to good photos taken with them? I don't want to waste money if it is just a meme and not actually good.
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>>4310814
It's better than an iphone, but you have to use it correctly. Instagram peeps do not use it correctly.

My mom has the newest iphone, pro max, and I have no idea how anyone can say that piece of shit has a good camera if they own a screen larger than a hand or iunno, zoom in slightly
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I've heard that in some ways it's worse than the GRII so if you don't need the stabilization (admittedly it could be very useful) or the extra resolution consider getting that one since it should go for much cheaper. I have the GRII and its APS-C sensor paired with the very sharp lens can produce satisfying results imo
>>4310816
I thought that my brother's pixel took decent photos for the longest time until I saw some on a monitor and the excessive hdr made me sick, thing is most people only look at them on a phone and rarely zoom in

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>>4310814
venice biennale? Looks like it at least.
Kind of crap this year isn't it.

At least it's easy to forget as you go into the rest of Venice.
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>>4310814
I've had a gr3 for a few years and it's an excellent camera if you know how to use it.
Because without Ibis it's kind of useless in the dark, and relying on the autofocus is pretty hopeless. If you need it for daytime street photography it's absolutely unmatched.
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>>4310814
just realized OP image is shot with a GR in the mirror wtf, it looks like trash lmao. also i thought hipsters were out of fashion years ago
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>>4310819
gonna post a couple of landscapes too for reference

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>>4310845
just realized that there's a dust spot in the sky in that one lmao, yeah that's going to be a problem if you keep it in a pocket with nothing to protect it from particles. I've taken it apart to clean the sensor a couple of times and it's fairly easy to do but I'm always afraid of breaking something

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Focal Length (35mm Equiv)28 mm
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>>4310819
A little cropping of the black on top and this would make a perfect puzzle
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>>4310814
The lack of stabilization keeps me away from this camera. Once you use something with IBIS you'll realize you can photograph more things at speeds 1/15-1/2 than you think, even people if they're not actively talking

There's the x100vi, possibly, but i accidentally zoomed in on the x100vi sample gallery and was instantly hit with much worse quality than the "lower resolution" ricoh GR (lower resolution like our normal cameras are lower resolution than sigma's foveons, but actually aren't) and disturbingly zombie like colors on some people, and it still has the noisy AF motor that's usually a feature on budget pancake lenses and old DSLR shit, not $2000 larp machines.
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>>4310845
>very sharp lens
wew lad 16mp looks dated

i imitated the largest tolerable print by saving this and viewing it natively on a mac and it stills looks like a mess. could probably be printed smaller maybe?
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>>4310837
>>4310877
The GRIII has ibis. If you can't tell you are CP or have parkinsons. It's great in low light and if you are willing to isomaxx nothing's stopping you in pitch black either.
>>4310816
The quality is comparable to an old dslr. If youre faggy enough you can spot chromatic aberration etc. but the rendering is great and sharpness is there. It wont replace any FF but can't really compare the quality with other cameras the same size. Dont get it if youre afraid to use it though, it will collect dust.
>>4310814
What fucking smearing?

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>>4310879
>Only 3 stop IBIS
maybe i didnt know about it because 3 stop IBIS in the real world is actually one stop IBIS for cool guy one handed shooting

3 stops is "with good technique" (asian tourist pose)
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>>4310882
Yeah, sure. It's good enough for the most part. The only bad thing I can think of is the AF isn't really doing anything in low light and manual focus is a pia. Pic related had to have a phone light light up the fence so I could get focus.

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Camera-Specific Properties:
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>>4310885
oh yeah, and the grain with the bw is pretty shit. I enjoy it tremendously still.

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>>4310878
I'll try to post a more "pristine" pic when I get home (these ones I had saved in cloud but for some reason they were at 4x the resolution so I had to re-downsize them) just to give you the right idea but yeah, if you want to make a print larger than A4 and still see small details up close 16Mpx won't be enough. I never had a camera with more Mpx than than that but I'm considering getting an A7R III and I think that having three times the resolution will be glorious, especially for cropping
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>>4310878
>>4310895
here's a jpeg straight from the camera that I just compressed slightly with Affinity Photo

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>>4310941
Yeah, thanks for the GAS cure. There's just something iphoney about that foliage.
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>>4310882
>(asian tourist pose)
Not maximizing your stability by doing Asian dadcore when shooting is your loss, kiddo.
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>>4310965
is there? I don't think you can get much more detail out of 16Mpx, anyway I have no stocks in Ricoh so I'm just happy I've been of help lol. Honestly the way they made the GR III (less buttons, no flash and a wheel that fails on a lot of people iirc) made me doubt for the future of this line, it's already a niche product and I feel they are relying too much on the hipster crowd to keep it afloat. An APS-C compact camera can do more than street photography, ultralight hiking faggotry for example could be a potential market for this thing
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>>4310882
>3 stops is "with good technique" (asian tourist pose)
what does this looks like
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>>4311013
its an old meme, but im glad its still kicking around.
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>>4311009
no flash is a killer imo. all the daido moriyama wannabes need that flash
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>>4310814
Why is this so smeared

>>4310941
and this so crisp?

Is the GRIII just really bad at higher ISO?
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>>4311099
the basedboy is handholding it indoors, its probably using something dumb like 1/20 and low max iso or some shit. My griii is perfectly capable of nice clean images. but this would be the same issue with any camera.
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>>4310814
GR fags are delusional. Stay away. Faggot in OP pic is exactly the kind of retard who falls for this shit.



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