My name is Mark, and just an amateur and just a newbie to the GRiii, but I'm very excited by this camera. I live in the Potter Highlands (adjacent to the Scottish Highlands) of Denver. I chose the GRiii for many reasons, but a big one is that I just adopted a one year old Labrador who needs lots of walking and lots of training. If anyone has any thoughts on how to integrate a frisky 72 lb. puppy into street photography (without necessarily being my perpetual subject), I would love to hear them!
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Thank you, Dirk!
I'm very excited to get into the GR mode of thinking. I'm a 65 year-old dude who grew up in the film era and still hark back to that simplicity. I'm hoping the community can help guide me in the direction of how to use the GR3 in a way that makes shooting not so much about knowing my way back-and-forth through a labyrinthian menu system (I'm also a Sony owner, by the way), but about getting to the heart of the matter: having fun making great pictures.
I'm very excited to get into the GR mode of thinking. I'm a 65 year-old dude who grew up in the film era and still hark back to that simplicity. I'm hoping the community can help guide me in the direction of how to use the GR3 in a way that makes shooting not so much about knowing my way back-and-forth through a labyrinthian menu system (I'm also a Sony owner, by the way), but about getting to the heart of the matter: having fun making great pictures.
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Hi Mark,
if you were able to handle a Sony menu system, you got already your PHD. The Ricoh GR is a piece of cake compared to Sony
Enable Auto ISO. I use my GRs always in M. One wheel for shutterspeed, the other for aperture (you can switch that in the menu if you want to).
Shutterspeed for street shooting normally 1/250s - 1/500s. Aperture F2.8 or for better image quality F4. Depends on the subject and how much background blurr I need
I tap on the screen for the right focus point. That's it. I do not use snap focus atm, because I do not need the extra speed for my kind of photography.
You can change SS and A with the hand you are holding the GR. Thumb and forefinger. Very fast, very convenient. Also On/Off with forefinger.
if you were able to handle a Sony menu system, you got already your PHD. The Ricoh GR is a piece of cake compared to Sony
Enable Auto ISO. I use my GRs always in M. One wheel for shutterspeed, the other for aperture (you can switch that in the menu if you want to).
Shutterspeed for street shooting normally 1/250s - 1/500s. Aperture F2.8 or for better image quality F4. Depends on the subject and how much background blurr I need
I tap on the screen for the right focus point. That's it. I do not use snap focus atm, because I do not need the extra speed for my kind of photography.
You can change SS and A with the hand you are holding the GR. Thumb and forefinger. Very fast, very convenient. Also On/Off with forefinger.
Thank you very much for such good advice, Dirk!Hi Mark,
if you were able to handle a Sony menu system, you got already your PHD. The Ricoh GR is a piece of cake compared to Sony
Enable Auto ISO. I use my GRs always in M. One wheel for shutterspeed, the other for aperture (you can switch that in the menu if you want to).
Shutterspeed for street shooting normally 1/250s - 1/500s. Aperture F2.8 or for better image quality F4. Depends on the subject and how much background blurr I need
I tap on the screen for the right focus point. That's it. I do not use snap focus atm, because I do not need the extra speed for my kind of photography.
You can change SS and A with the hand you are holding the GR. Thumb and forefinger. Very fast, very convenient. Also On/Off with forefinger.
Thank goodness for people like you, and thank goodness for the people who also explain things on YouTube. I will get this down. It's not that daunting, but I've already encountered some things that threw me (I must have programed my LCD to go to sleep because once while I just started shooting, the screen was blank!) and since you brought up the topic of one hand changes that the camera allows you to make (one of the reasons I chose this camera), I've also accidentally hit the macro button more than once and that at first confused me. I would like to reprogram that to something else and make the video button the macro button, since I'll almost never use this camera for video. And I would like to better understand the User 1, 2, and 3 options and how that relates to the boxes.
I certainly don't expect you to answer all those questions! You've already done so much by telling me about the specifics of your settings, which was very helpful!
Best,
Mark
Hey Mark,
Welcome to the commjnity! I am also a new entrant - got my GR3 in Jan.
I have recently (i.e. since last week) started using zone/range focusing on the GR3 using the Snap focus mode and I'd say it's a pretty cool way to take sharp pictures at lightning speeds
Setting snap distance to 2m with aperture at around f/5 or higher (depending on light) would basically have almost everything from around 1.5 m to infinity in focus. Combined with auto ISO and a shutter speed of 1/125 to 1/250 you should be able to simply point and shoot
Welcome to the commjnity! I am also a new entrant - got my GR3 in Jan.
I have recently (i.e. since last week) started using zone/range focusing on the GR3 using the Snap focus mode and I'd say it's a pretty cool way to take sharp pictures at lightning speeds
Setting snap distance to 2m with aperture at around f/5 or higher (depending on light) would basically have almost everything from around 1.5 m to infinity in focus. Combined with auto ISO and a shutter speed of 1/125 to 1/250 you should be able to simply point and shoot