Hello,
I am doing photography as a hobby since about 8 years. Even though I started with a "high end P&S" Olympus 5060WZ, I have moved to film (mostly 6x6 and 4x5") and only use my elderly Minolta 7D when long lens, close focus, or fast results are needed. To get a better idea what my photography looks like just check out my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31007239@N06/
So what a happy medium and large format user brings to Rcoh forum which is for the most part dedicated to digital compact cameras? Simply - my soon-to-start new work will keep me traveling around a lot with little time for photography. On these trips (often abroad) it will mostly not be possible to take my favorite camera (Mamiya 6) along for many reasons. So I started to look what is available in compact AF 35 mm film cameras (I tend do be demanding, so rather few qualified there - Contax T3 being the main candidate. Cameras like Leica M or Contax G2 are just too large).
But - as much as I like film - I realized that for this purpose a digital camera may be more suitable - allowing me to sort the images taken on the way and to put some of them online to share. So I started to look around and "discovered" cameras like Leica X1, Ricoh GXR, Sigma DP2s, but also compact cameras like Olympus XZ-1, Ricoh GRDIII and some others. Ricoh does play somewhat a special role - both the GXR and GRDIII are somewhat special cameras - not really main stream. I guess I like that
So - I came here to learn more about Ricoh GXR and GRDIII. I am first browsing around (some interesting info already found), but expect some questions soon. You have a nice forum here - I am looking forward to take part.
I am doing photography as a hobby since about 8 years. Even though I started with a "high end P&S" Olympus 5060WZ, I have moved to film (mostly 6x6 and 4x5") and only use my elderly Minolta 7D when long lens, close focus, or fast results are needed. To get a better idea what my photography looks like just check out my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31007239@N06/
So what a happy medium and large format user brings to Rcoh forum which is for the most part dedicated to digital compact cameras? Simply - my soon-to-start new work will keep me traveling around a lot with little time for photography. On these trips (often abroad) it will mostly not be possible to take my favorite camera (Mamiya 6) along for many reasons. So I started to look what is available in compact AF 35 mm film cameras (I tend do be demanding, so rather few qualified there - Contax T3 being the main candidate. Cameras like Leica M or Contax G2 are just too large).
But - as much as I like film - I realized that for this purpose a digital camera may be more suitable - allowing me to sort the images taken on the way and to put some of them online to share. So I started to look around and "discovered" cameras like Leica X1, Ricoh GXR, Sigma DP2s, but also compact cameras like Olympus XZ-1, Ricoh GRDIII and some others. Ricoh does play somewhat a special role - both the GXR and GRDIII are somewhat special cameras - not really main stream. I guess I like that
So - I came here to learn more about Ricoh GXR and GRDIII. I am first browsing around (some interesting info already found), but expect some questions soon. You have a nice forum here - I am looking forward to take part.
