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petach

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Well, been a long time coming....but I have come back to the forum from other lands.

As much as I liked the Fuji X100S, I wasn't hitting the mark with street shots as much as I did with the GRD3. In addition, the bulk of the Fuji made it difficult to hold in one hand (I have to, I have Parkinson's tremor on my left hand)

So, au revoir to Fuji and Aloha to the GXR/M-Mount/Zeiss 21mm f/2.8 Bio combo.

I hope I get on well with it.....have always fancied one. Looking forward to posting and seeing old friends.

Pete
 
Pete, this comes as a real surprise. The exiting of the "Beloved X100s". I gotta say, as much as I love my XP1's, the GXR is so much smaller and efficient.
Good luck old man...seeya around...
 
Pete, this comes as a real surprise. The exiting of the "Beloved X100s". I gotta say, as much as I love my XP1's, the GXR is so much smaller and efficient.
I myself am happily in love with Penelope the White GRD4 and having a nice compact romance.
Good luck old man...seeya around...
 
Nice to see you back here Pete! Looking forward to seeing the Zeiss in action...I actually have this lens though not to hand at present. I found a little play with this combination, but had concluded that it was the lens where the slack was...it otherwise works perfectly well though!
 
Hi Pete,

I am a bit surprised the X100 didn't work well for you, but also not surprised.
I had one for a while but quit it also. For me I found it was too much of a lump in my hands, I was too used to the svelte compact GR series.
The GRDs ruined the X100 for me. The X100 was lovely to use but no so much to tote.
I also had situations where I put a fully charged X100 in my bag only to find on arrival somewhere that the power switch had been knocked on and a totally dead battery.

The wider view of the 21mm will abate and lesson some of the camera shake you may suffer in Parkinsons.
I have a brother who has Parkinsosns also and he is currently using a GF1.
He uses a lot of bracing techniques to get by.

Have you got a A12 28mm module? Maybe that is also worth a try.
 
cheers guys. I almost cried when I left the Fuji behind.....I nearly went back for it. It was a truly lovely camera and I squeezed some very nice shots out of it from a tripod. It just felt clumsy in my hand for street work and I felt very aware of it.....that it wasn't part of my hand. Having said that.....the GXR; although smaller and more palmable does have the 21mm Zeiss Bio on the front ....quite a protrusion! But it seems to balance for me and I put my 2 fingers around the barrel like a sideways V for Victory sign and the bottom right edge of the camera smack in the middle of my palm. I like the feel of it, and I like the flexibility it will give me regarding lens choice. Bearing in mind my Parkinson's I was a bit worried about manual focus, but I was pleased yesterday in that I just stuck it on f/8 or f/11, shutter at 1/125th or 1/250th outdoors (even down to 1/40th indoors in gloom) and auto hi ISO, focussed at 2mtrs...and all my shots were pretty much perfectly focussed. I love this one. PP'd in LR5

Ickworth Hse, Suffolk. Ricoh GXR-M-Zeiss 21mm-14 by petach123 (Peter Tachauer), on Flickr
 
Nice to hear from you again! I am already looking forward to your inimitable photos. Picture #1 is already a great success!
Christian
 
Welcome back Peter. Your Flickr stream is filling up with really beautiful stuff - "Light, Dark, Texture" is a great capture, and there are many others, nice to see color in the stream as well.
 
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