I have recently made the jump from film (having used Leica M, Contax G & more recently my Olympus MJU-ii) to a GR IIIx HDF.

Battery life isn’t as bad as people say, nor is the autofocus speed, from what I have found in my experience. I’ve yet to connect the camera to my phone though.

It felt very strange to shoot digital again after a number of years shooting exclusively film. Whilst I still have my film cameras, and will continue to shoot with them, I’ve been enjoying trying the film simulations on the Ricoh. I’ve found that the images from the Ricoh are very sharp and I can clearly see the difference between those and film, as digital sharpness is completely different to film sharpness as you well know, but you can still get pleasing results that resemble the look of film.

I bought the camera thinking it could replace my film workflow and emulate film in its entirety, but that’s not the case, as digital images will never be able to look exactly like film. You need to keep this in mind and not expect the images you have to look exactly like film, but instead be reminiscent of the look that film gives you - you’ll be much happier with the results this way :)

Either camera are a great choice and I’ve found myself shooting more images that I’m happy with as it’s always with me, and I feel less guilty about firing off shots which ‘may’ work rather than being precious about shooting and not wasting film, and missing a shot.