>>4382744
It would need to have:
>interchangeable lenses
>a bigger grip
>ovf
>shoots 35mm film

>>4382744
better af and weather sealing.

>>4382744
It's a psychopath camera, small, black and hidden, no viewfinder

I had much better luck doing street portraits with my larger fuji x100 that puts the normies at ease, it looks more professional and less mouth breather

>>4382744
Camera for perverts with crippling anxiety.

>>4382967
Bullshit, I don't have one.

Main reason I will never own one is they normally start at £900 and it’s not £900 worth of camera I’d be happy to give 500 ish for it

Weather seals. Retards seem to think weather means water and forget dust/debris exist.
Longer battery life.

>>4382744
Full frame. Like a sony rx1 with a retracting prime. Dust seals (these are felt, water seals are rubber. dust can roll under rubber. water seeps through felt. yet no one uses the proper arrangement of felt behind rubber).

APS-C is starting to cut it too close to phones, especially with its older sensor. If they can’t pull off a serious IQ jump they’re going to have to start jacking prices and entering leica land.
>More film sim focus
>Optional storage setting that coordinates with film sims to emulate shooting rolls
>optical. view. finder! they had them on film!
>Ricoh GR is a luxury brand now
>buy your authentic Ricoh GR beanie
>Ricoh GR / Nike collaboration
>Maybe just brand as GR

>>4383079
>APS-C is starting to cut it too close to phones
Retarded statement of the thread.

>>4383079
youtube statement

>>4382744
it would have to shoot 35mm film, but I guess we have pentax 17 for that

>>4382744
40mp sensor
Popup EVF
Control ring around the lens with manual focus option

>>4383113
aps-c IS starting to cut it close to phones. please refer yourself to the sample gallery for the iphone 15 pro max on dpreview since it seems to be hard to find iphone photos taken by anyone who has touched a camera before, and there’s no fucking way im buying a goyphone for its camera. i could use that money to upgrade to medium format.

>>4383181
True. Just install halide and wala, its ahead of m43 and coming up on old aspcope sensors really fast. Thats what happens when photography sees 0 innovation except for crippling 10 year old sensors IQ to improve readout speed while apple actually does R&D. Soon all cameras will have will be the premium and special effect lenses.

>>4382744
>GR IV
have they fixed the dust problem

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>>4382744
>Make a simple compact-camera-esque window to the top corner, it doesn't need to be an EVF, just something for composing in bright daylight
>Better battery-life and more grip
>reliable autofocus and something for manual focus.
>Make it 43mm equivalent

>>4382744
Fix the dust issue
Faster AF

>>4383146
>>4383113
Oh please it would be no bigger than a Leica Q or Contax T2
Design should homage the 500G rangefinder

>>4382744
I will buy it guaranteed if it has weather sealing and the dust problem is fixed.
EVF not necessary.

>>4384829
The GR is a meme that doesn't sell because its userbase is entirely OCD-type autists that would boycott at the slightest change or additional new feature
The new one will have the same dust issue and old sensor, but for double the price of the old model

>>4382744
>What would make you buy the GR IV?
Full frame
Better lens
35mm
EVF
Good software support and app integration

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i thought about getting a gr in the past but i may have left the market. back when i was still interested, these fixes would have fully sold me on it:
flatten out this ugly curve (pic related). just make everything square
put flash back in
dustproofing

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>>4385377
My dream GR IV is basically a GX300
>24-70 equiv zoom lens
>popup evf
>control ring around lens
>integrated ND filter

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>>4382744
As a person who owned a GR and used it extensively in that time, the responses in this thread baffle me.
The entire point of the camera is that it's manually controllable, actually compact, and actually high quality from an IQ/lense perspective.
And 28mm.
Wanting it to be a zoom, or have some other stupid shape, or have interchangeable lenses, or be full-frame, or faster aperture, are just retarded.
It's already a miracle that they got to APSC given the size of the camera and the ray angles that are acceptable on digital sensors.
It never needs more features, just for the features it has to be better versions of themselves.
Throw the IS in the bin, restore the built in flash, delete the rear screen (for improved flange distance/slimmer build), add a hybrid o/evf, offer a monochrome sensor version, include a filter adapter in the box, make the sensor user serviceable for dust (weather sealing is a meme, dust is a reality, cleaning it is the solution).
Lean into the USP's of the product, don't kowtow to whingers who were never going to buy one anyway.

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>>4385414
>faster/instantaneous startup time facilitated by capacitors and huge ram cache
>concave aspherics to allow a fixed lense that needs no extending
>manual/snap focus being physically accessible via a lever, as opposed to waiting for an af motor to function
>IR af for nighttime/delete that fucking lamp
>even fewer buttons/dials
>takes AAs (kek)

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>>4385414
>>4385415
See >>4385169
>Even the slightest change would totally ruin everything
You're a Ricoh intern whose last experiences with APS-C were the Pentax K-01 and Ricoh GXR A12 module

>release a "new model"
>called the STREET EDITION
>literally just a coloured circle around the lens
>nothing else

>>4385414
>>4385415
Your “photography” says a lot about your complacence. You havent moved past the 70s, sure, bruce G jr, but this piece of shit costs over a grand. They improve it, or good riddance. I love watching shite asian camera companies go under. Makes more room for a western imaging renaissance. Every ricoh, nikon, panasonic, etc product is holding on to customers that could patronize a working mans leica instead or fund blackmagics entrance into consumer stills.

Just make the iv a mirrorless

>>4386113
if apple makes a “real camera” its basically over for everyone but sony and canon, honestly. And sony and canon would still lose 70% of their customers.

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i am not getting one until they put a viewfinder into it. ovf or evf i dont care. an external viewfinder defeats the point of a compact

Make it a gr2.
/thread

>>4382744
Nothing ricoh is capable of