I just got home this afternoon armed with a new purchase. Got a GXR body, the M-Mount and electronic viewfinder (all together as a very clean, well in fact as new used from RG Lewis in London). The M6 has gone but I retained the Carl Zeiss 21mm f2.8 Biogon lens to use on it. This will replace my GRD3 which has a scratched lens. Looking forward to getting some use out of it.
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Tom Caldwell
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MarcusEyre1":2lhk6vz7 said:Well done Petach.....who needs an M6 anyway?!! The GXR does the job well....with a nice lens to compliment it....no disrespect to Leica owners intended. :shock: :lol: Great cameras, but as we all know, good images can be had with a box brownie....
So? since when has a GXR been a "Box Brownie"?
(Penny drops) Oh! so you have a Box Brownie with a Ziess 21mm f2.8 Biogon, great combination
AlbertTRAL
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Congrats Pete! I have just taken a second M module to be able to swap lenses without worrying about weather conditions...together with an hologon...for "coastal shots"...
As I have just said in your fish plate post, am I seeing an increase in the GXR interest lately? A second youth due to Ricoh's silence?
As I have just said in your fish plate post, am I seeing an increase in the GXR interest lately? A second youth due to Ricoh's silence?
Tom Caldwell
New Member
My understanding is that the GXR with M mount module is a crafted tool that with withstand the test of time. It is not built in the concept of latest and greatest technology but more from the point of view that it will leverage good quality existing lenses and new lenses adhering to the manual focus design. It complements this ever-good glass with a servicable digital-age body that can be used and controlled like (for want of a better word) a proper camera. If nothing is changed then it might continue to sell regularly in relatively small quantities for years to come. It is not a current fad type camera.
The GXR-M is in effect a modern day miniature "Leica" without most of Leica's own apparent need to continue to carry their "retro-look" baggage. This is no insult to Leica who truly make fine crafted cameras but perhaps Leica could never make the price point at which the Ricoh GXR must be sold to continue to sell in some numbers. The Ricoh GXR would surely really die at any significant price rise just as mch as the Leica would be finished if they tried to sell the essentially same camera at Ricoh-level prices. In fact the marques complement one another.
I am sure that the GXR-M will be long lasting. Ricoh need not do very much to it for it to be useful for years and years to come. There are legends to come about the GXR-M just as much as the RD-1 and even more quirky camera has also made it's own legend.
However this is not an appeal to Ricoh to stop development of the GXR. There are things that can and must be improved. However the syle and the operation, the basic body design, is so well conceived that it must be the standard for this particular niche by which all other cameras must be judged.
I have recently bought a Sony NEX6 for no other reason than to be able to mount and enhance my existing Canon EOS EF lenses on a digital camera body via a Metabones Speed Booster adapter. This adapter is impossible on a GXR unless Ricoh make it into a dedicated module under licence.
Therefore a NEX6 entered the household. The evf is something that would be useful on another GXR camera back as is a more formed grip. The tilt up/down screen is useful. However the standout non-feature is how populist-twee the NEX actually is. Whereas an informed and dedicated photographer can almost always make a GXR into a tool that reflects his exact photographic passions. The NEX on the other hand comes with PASM and a few other touches to grace photographic control this is completely offset by no real customisation possible and what there is is directed straight into such things as scene modes, creative controls, smile mode and face recognition, dah de dah. Luckly "the 6" dispenses with touch screen control and the video button has been moved away from under the thumb and can be disabled completely in the menu.
If the latter had persisted then surely my EF lenses may have lenguished a while longer.
Vive le GXR!
Tom
The GXR-M is in effect a modern day miniature "Leica" without most of Leica's own apparent need to continue to carry their "retro-look" baggage. This is no insult to Leica who truly make fine crafted cameras but perhaps Leica could never make the price point at which the Ricoh GXR must be sold to continue to sell in some numbers. The Ricoh GXR would surely really die at any significant price rise just as mch as the Leica would be finished if they tried to sell the essentially same camera at Ricoh-level prices. In fact the marques complement one another.
I am sure that the GXR-M will be long lasting. Ricoh need not do very much to it for it to be useful for years and years to come. There are legends to come about the GXR-M just as much as the RD-1 and even more quirky camera has also made it's own legend.
However this is not an appeal to Ricoh to stop development of the GXR. There are things that can and must be improved. However the syle and the operation, the basic body design, is so well conceived that it must be the standard for this particular niche by which all other cameras must be judged.
I have recently bought a Sony NEX6 for no other reason than to be able to mount and enhance my existing Canon EOS EF lenses on a digital camera body via a Metabones Speed Booster adapter. This adapter is impossible on a GXR unless Ricoh make it into a dedicated module under licence.
Therefore a NEX6 entered the household. The evf is something that would be useful on another GXR camera back as is a more formed grip. The tilt up/down screen is useful. However the standout non-feature is how populist-twee the NEX actually is. Whereas an informed and dedicated photographer can almost always make a GXR into a tool that reflects his exact photographic passions. The NEX on the other hand comes with PASM and a few other touches to grace photographic control this is completely offset by no real customisation possible and what there is is directed straight into such things as scene modes, creative controls, smile mode and face recognition, dah de dah. Luckly "the 6" dispenses with touch screen control and the video button has been moved away from under the thumb and can be disabled completely in the menu.
If the latter had persisted then surely my EF lenses may have lenguished a while longer.
Vive le GXR!
Tom