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Nicozoom

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Hi I am new to this forum, I worked 25 years as a pro photographer in Copenhagen Denmark, and studied photography before that for 4 years.
I had a Ricoh GX 100 for more than a year now, in the beginning I didn`t like it, but lately something has changed, and at the moment I feel like coming back to my old Leica M camera with Tri-x film in it feeling, really nice.
My daily cameras are Canon 1dsm3 and 5d, so the Ricoh is something different for sure.
And now I carry the Ricoh with me most of the time, it is not the most super fast point and shoot camera, but still it has a way of doing some really nice stuff.
I`m not using the viewfinder anymore, I`m getting used to the LCD, and somehow, I look at the subject and on the LCD at the same time.
The snap focus is a nice thing, I have it on for the most of my street style photos, and with the dept of field because of the small sensor, most of the shots are in focus.....
The next thing I will get is the GRD II, since I mostly use a wideangle, or maybe I will wait until the GRD III.....
And with the Ricoh, I can really get some shots that a Canon 1ds never could get, with all of the attention it gets......
So all the discussions in most photography forums about pixels and noise and test and what so ever is not always the way to getting great photos, but the way the camera is working together with your eyes.....

Just a few words, and a pro photographers point of view, who is quite happy about getting to enjoy photography in a new way again, in this sometimes confusing digital world of photography.

Here are some I got on a trip to Malta:
http://perjesi.dk/valletta

Regards Nicolai Perjesi
http://www.perjesi.dk
 
Hi, Nicolai!

It's a thrill to read something like this from a pro. And you say very important things about photography, more than many people can understand this days.

I loved your Malta shots. Although I felt the need for some 1:1 or vertical format on a few shots, but that's me, not the author ;-)

Keep up the good work, and show some more!
 
Hello Nicolai and welcome here! There are many nice photos in your gallery! They all shows dynamic pulse of the streets. Do you shot straight in camera B&W mode or you process the color JPEG/RAW?
 
Thanks a lot!!!

They were all shot in JPEG B+W in the camera 400 iso, RAW is to slow for me with the GX100, and I like the noise of the JPEGs, the files were imported to lightroom, and I did a little bit of corrections, gave a bit more of contrast and so on, still working on getting some good presets.
I understand of what I can read here and in some other places that the GX200 is making some Noise reduction of the JPEG files, so they don´t have the same look as with the GX100 jpegs.....

Anyway....
I think I will order a GRD II, I guess it is fast in RAW???
There is an old GRD ( the first model ) for sale here, but I don´t know, it is better for JPEG some say, and still the GRD II does have some very nice features.....
So I am a bit in doubt about those 2 models.......

And Rui, it will come the 1:1 photos, before I did most of my work on a Hasselblad, and it so so brilliant that the Ricohs also can do that format, and it is not the same cropping after the shot is taken.....

But.............
Again more pixels on a little sensor will not make better files, I hope Ricoh will come up with something better in the future.......
A lot of photographers deliver super huge files, that are printed 10 * 15 cm in a magazine, overkill!!!!
But I guees they most have some excuse to their clients for taking money for their work.

I know a photographer here who had one of the first canons semi-DSLR models, it looked like a toy camera, and was only shooting 5mb files, but the way the lens was in sync with the sensor gave some amazing razor-sharp files when they were interpolated up in size!!!
So now I am getting very techincal here, sorry......

But very nice inspiring forum you got here, fun to see all these photos from all over the world, I also likes some of the blogs there is from all over.

It could be nice if some more magazines opened their eyes again for documentary photography, instead of celebrities, and how does their homes look like, what we should buy and all that s..., but unfortunately, this is what the world wants!!!!
Good we got the internet!!!!!!

RGDS Nicolai.
 
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