>>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.

>>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.

>>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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>>4310819
A little cropping of the black on top and this would make a perfect puzzle

>>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.

>>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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>>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.

>>4310882
>(asian tourist pose)
Not maximizing your stability by doing Asian dadcore when shooting is your loss, kiddo.

>>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

>>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.

>>4311009
no flash is a killer imo. all the daido moriyama wannabes need that flash

>>4310814
Why is this so smeared

>>4310941
and this so crisp?

Is the GRIII just really bad at higher ISO?

>>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.

>>4310814
GR fags are delusional. Stay away. Faggot in OP pic is exactly the kind of retard who falls for this shit.

>>4311101
prove it

>>4310846
>>4310845
>>4310941
these just look like any other decent point & shoot or phone

>>4315312
if you shoot anything but a 45mp-62mp ff or 100mp+ mf or don't use a super fast bokehtastic lens in low light with 24mp ff, photography do be like that

the minimum to never, ever get "i could have used my phone":
must be mirrorless (for decent video and superior lenses)
nikon z7ii, z8, z9, sony a7riv a7rv, a7cr, a1, canon r5
first party prime lenses or premium zooms ("S" line, "G" or "GM" branded, "L" branded)

>why so many megapixels???
a discerning person, someone of above average intelligence, will still instantly notice the quality gap between a 24mp FF camera with a decent lens and an iphone camera, granted the photographer is not enthusiastic with the sharpening slider. unfortunately for the good name of real cameras, the vast majority of photographers are aged 35+ and have failing eyesight and questionable taste. the high threshhold, large radius, large amount sharpening they typically use, in addition to the massive vibrance boost (shit screens are desaturated - so is aging vision) makes 24mp ff look like a phone at first glance.

however most normal people literally do not notice fine details unless you tell them to.
>why full frame????
because full frame bayer is the minimum amount of quality you need to reliably set your photos apart from smaller formats. crops sensors are softer and noiser, which brings them closer to what computational photography achieves unless you turn off all post copes and use them as soft and grainy photos. very few people will like those, and all of them will be other photographers. like only other guitarists and wannabe guitarists like "shred" "music", yknow?

>>4310814
I fucking hate people who wear those stupid shoes

>>4315316
not true at all lol, a good lens is all it takes to make something a phone can't
the difference between phone pics and regular camera pics is much more than just pixel level detail, which seems to be the only factor you consider

>>4315316
I showed a few friends photos i saved from dpreviews z6ii and iphone 15 pro max galleries and only i and 3 other people, all working on masters/phds, could reliably spot the FF because the details looked way more natural

Not one single woman in my friend group could tell which one was a real camera. All the seeers were men. Is that weird? Women are supposed to have better eyesight. Or maybe they prefer the cartoony digital look. Would explain lightroom’s defaults and why phones (primarily marketed to women) actually got worse with the forced hdr…

>>4315320
>ok but the bokeh tho -u
he said bokeh was one way if you could read

>>4315321
High IQ males are detail oriented, very high IQ males are both detail and concept oriented, women are concept oriented, low IQ males are pussy and ass oriented. Simple as.

>>4315321
Vsco and the “vsco girl/look” (now we just call it filters in general but things were different a decade ago) only became a thing because of women. Those dog filters and shitty beauty filters and bad colour cast filters, all made for women. They’re retarded.

>>4315323
seems like you can't read, i never mentioned bokeh at all

>>4315329
All lenses affect that cant be edited to fix is sharpness and bokeh

>>4315331
photography is infested with schizo gearfags who think certain lenses are magical but really they’re just soft and the raw developer included a contrast boost

>>4310819
>it should go for much cheaper
It should, but I've never seen a good price on any of the GRs used.

>>4315316
https://www.newsweek.com/bright-colors-less-perceived-older-people-neuroscience-1863101
This explains a lot about trends in photography

>>4310814
why do gay people all seem to love the griii?

>>4315370
I bought my GR2 used like new for less than 350 euros iirc and that was around 7 years ago, but I'd say that you definitely should spend less than 300 now for it to be worth it. If you can't find it at those prices it must be because the used camera market is bonkers right now and nothing makes sense

Didn't read the arguing faggotry, but for the OP:

Bought a GR III about 1.5 months ago after taking a break from photography for nearly 4 years (thanks to the pandemic mostly). I used to be a Fuji shooter, but I came to my sense and sold all of my gear.

The GR III is great, an amazing everyday camera that does the job exceedingly well. The lens is one of the best I've ever come across, the software is good, and the "simulations" are handy.

The best aspect is of course the pocketability. It's simply unmatched, and no, a phone isn't the same. The ergonomics of the GR make for a great shooting experience, unobtrusive, discrete and understated. You have a shutter button and a few dials to rotate, no pushing a touch-screen like a monkey.

The dust issue is real, but how bad is it? I keep a metal lens cap when storing it, and I have a handair pump to knock off dust after a long day. I keep it in a dedicated pouch. There are some youtubers that recommend covering up every hole (mic, speaker), and this somehow "prevents" dust getting on the sensor, which is retarded. Just be smart about it.

It's a good purchase. The GR feels well built, but there is a part of me which feels that a good >1M drop will result in camera death. I've read horror stories of sand getting int the retractable lens rendering it useless.

Still love it, I recommend.

>>4315486
>>4315495
lol

>>4315495
I wish the film GRs didn’t have such meme inflated prices, I would love to have one considering how great it feels using my iiix. Nice pocketable crisp snappy.

>>4315495
A phone isnt the same but the output is damn close. You need a IIIx to negate some of the phoneness because 28mm FF is THE iphone FOV and crop sensor dof and unsharpness isnt helping.

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>>4315327
>Those dog filters... all made for women
Uh oh

>>4315492
>If you can't find it at those prices it must be because the used camera market is bonkers right now and nothing makes sense
It's been that way for years.
The slugs getting priced out of the X100 series have only made it worse.

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>>4315618
white women desperately want to be dogs because they know deep down inside that white men would prefer them that way, but YWNBAD so they surround themselves with dogs and dog accessories to cope

>>4315624
Well uh
Yeah actually

I wouldnt want my gf to be a husky tho, too noisy and independent.

>>4315610
You can thank Daido Moriyama for that.

>>4316456
two bombs wasn't enough s2g

>>4315610
>>4316456

The Ricoh GR1 was always an expensive sought after camera. The current $500-600 eBay prices aren't too far off the $400-600 prices quoted by Japan Camera Hunter in 2012. They were sold at around $450 in 1997 ($880 in 2024 dollars). Not a lot of cameras like it so they've held their value even the build quality didn't match the price.

so, will Ricoh bring back the built-in fill flash in the next version?

>>4311089
>bottom lefts legs and bum

Bueno