Hello from Sweden

[Martin O]

As a professional photographer I needed a good compact camera with manual functions and raw. The only one in the market who attract me was GRDII. I had used it for more than a half year now, and I never leave home without it. I always have the Manfrotto 797 Modopocket mounted on the camera and it fits in the original GR belt bag. http://www.manfrotto.com/Jahia/site/manfrotto/pid/16411.
As a user of Nikons professional dslrs (D3 and D2x) I'm familiar with the dedicated buttons for iso, wb, focusmode and expo mode. I had put this functions to the GRDII adj lever- button. With this possibilities to personalize the camera it will be pretty fast to work with.
In fact there are some details I don't like. The combined battery/memorycard door forces me to demount the modopocket tripod every time. I either don't like the very high prices on accessories.

//Martin O

 

[odklizec]

Hi Martin and welcome on board! I hope you will enjoy this forum and find it useful

The combined battery/card door is definitely something to improve. But on the other hand, GRD type of camera is usually not used on tripod. And I still think it's better to have the tripod screw in the middle of camera body than on its left or right side? I always hated this on my old IXUS 400. Customization options and still uncluttered menu is one of the strongest Ricoh points. There is probably no other compact camera with so high level of customization. And we still did not see everything! Just wait and see...