Certain functions in instructions not in menu..

[Sumolux]

Hi all,
Just got my new GR and am going through all kinds of features to get to know this amazing little camera.
The pages for Noise reduction (47,) Dynamic range (48), Metering method (49) describe shooting menu choices that are not on my camera.
Thinking perhaps there is already a version update, or the PDF is ahead of what is coming for software developments?
Mine is V.1.11
Curious if others have a different version?
Cheers all,
Sumolux

 

[Blow-in]

I don't have a GR but I'm curious as to where the on-line support is. I looked for FW updates on the Ricoh site but I couldn't find the GR. I used the GR link to go to the Pentax-Ricoh site which has all the GR info but it's not listed there either in the FW downloads.....???

Richard

 

[wimvangrinsven]

On my GR with FW 1.11, I can change NR-settings. Are you in the shooting menu with the camerasymbol highlighted?

 

[Sumolux]

Hi Richard,
The Ricoh/Pentax sites are all over the place with many 'sub-sites' etc. so it is really confusing.
However I found this link:

http://www.ricoh.com/r_dc/download/

Which has everything, but there is no new GR software (yet).
I am not overly concerned, just curious.

The particular settings were either planned and dropped at the last minute, or there will be an upgrade.
I will survive either Still cannot believe what this camera can do.....and when you consider the price point it becomes kind of astonishing...

Sumolux

 

[Sumolux]

On my GR with FW 1.11, I can change NR-settings. Are you in the shooting menu with the camerasymbol highlighted?

Hi Wim,
This is getting a little mysterious now :geek:
Humphhh :| I DID find the Dynamic range correction as discussed on page 48

However, the camera icon menu (SHOOTING) on mine really has no ISO speed, Noise reduction or Select metering method as mentioned on pages 46, 47, 49.

ISO settings in my camera are in the SETUP menu (ISO Step and ISO Auto-high) - no where else. Are your ISO settings really in the SHOOTING menu?
If so it is is quite interesting to know!

P.S. And we are discussing the new GR (V) and not the GR IV, right ?

Cheers,
Sumolux

 

[Blow-in]

Hi Richard,
The Ricoh/Pentax sites are all over the place with many 'sub-sites' etc. so it is really confusing.
However I found this link:

http://www.ricoh.com/r_dc/download/

Which has everything, but there is no new GR software (yet).
I am not overly concerned, just curious.

The particular settings were either planned and dropped at the last minute, or there will be an upgrade.
I will survive either Still cannot believe what this camera can do.....and when you consider the price point it becomes kind of astonishing...

Sumolux

I'm still confused...I'd also found the page you linked but couldn't find the GR anywhere - surely it should appear with the most recent FW number even if that's the first user version? Or may be I'm going blind.

I'm sure that the features you can't find are supposed to be there - they are listed in the on-line spec.

I wonder if you need to have a certain shooting mode selected for them to appear in the menu?

Richard

 

[Sumolux]

Mystery solved: Certain functions in instructions not in men

OK, well the mystery is solved....Yet there is a mystery still
The functions I listed were not there.....Then after a while ONE of them came, as you read above. I thought I was getting senile and had overseen that one.
The other three were still not there. I checked and double checked this several times after posting here.

Later I went out with the camera and just used all the functions I could (via the buttons) in all modes, just to see if I understood everything.
When I got back home, the 3 last missing functions were suddenly in the Shooting menu! Really weird....
It is as if using the functions via the buttons (ISO etc.) activated those functions in the menu listing....
Sumolux

 

[Tom Caldwell]

Re: Mystery solved: Certain functions in instructions not in men

OK, well the mystery is solved....Yet there is a mystery still
The functions I listed were not there.....Then after a while ONE of them came, as you read above. I thought I was getting senile and had overseen that one.
The other three were still not there. I checked and double checked this several times after posting here.

Later I went out with the camera and just used all the functions I could (via the buttons) in all modes, just to see if I understood everything.
When I got back home, the 3 last missing functions were suddenly in the Shooting menu! Really weird....
It is as if using the functions via the buttons (ISO etc.) activated those functions in the menu listing....
Sumolux

The menu system is very context sensitive. Ricoh menus have always been a little bit that way but as they have become more complex there are quite a lot of settings that just do not appear to enable them to be adjusted unless the mode requiring them allows them to be changed. I cannot remember them all off the top of my head but if you download my pdf documentation under the thread "Need some help?" it should be of use to you. Classically the items than can be set up under a mode change as the intent of the mode chnages. Quite cool really but it might seem confusing at first. It did confuse me initially. Ricoh manuals are necessarily terse as there is a lot of ground to cover, exploring can be fun (or frustrating). For example the my and box modes will default start in "auto" (green camera) and if you set P,Av,Tv,TAv,M as the start mode setting a whole lot of extra settings that can be adjusted will suddenly appear.

Compare this to my NEX6 which I use to run lenses through focal reducer adapters. By by-passing all the native Sony lenses at least half, maybe two thirds of the menu items become redundant and are greyed out but you still have to scroll through the durned lot to find the ones you can adjust.

Tom

 

[Sumolux]

Thanks Tom, I learn something new every day !
Cheers,
Sumolux