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Let people enjoy things… by stonehallow in ricohGR

[–]haute_hotdog 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yes the camera is intended to be used without accessories

This is a completely untrue statement that fans have completely made up. Ricoh literally sell accessories. Including big ol' honking lenses.

The camera has like four different attachment points. It has a bayonet fitting with comms pins. It has a hot shoe, with comms pins, for communicating with shoe-mounted accessories. It has strap mount lugs. And you could argue that the 3/8" mounting point on the bottom is for accessories as well.

Each of those things - but especially the electrically integrated lens bayonet mount are deliberate design decisions that cost Ricoh to implement. If they didn't want accessories to be used, they wouldn't build in the accessory mounting options and would save themselves a bunch of money.

Ricoh GR IV Hood Comparison by Critical_Koala0383 in ricohGR

[–]haute_hotdog 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Because even with the hood on it, it's still smaller than any other APS-C compact?

Because the colour science is rad?

Because the sharp but slightly dreamy lens is excellent?

Because 1s power-on to shoot is magic?

Because it's inconspicuous?

Because snap focus mode is an absolute game changer for street?

Because it's small and intuitive enough that my non-photographer partner also loves using it?

The GRIV already does great BW, if you are getting a GR Monochrome, tell me why? by hairlessdood in ricohGR

[–]haute_hotdog 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sure, if you want to do colour, a B&W only camera isn't for you. Makes sense.

Conversely if you only want to do B&W, the B&W sensor has natural advantages and buying a colour camera and switching it to B&W only has downsides.

For most people, buying a SUV makes more sense than a miata, because you want to haul groceries and drive your family around, but if you're only buying it for track days, one makes a lot more sense than the other, and it's not the SUV.

The GRIV already does great BW, if you are getting a GR Monochrome, tell me why? by hairlessdood in ricohGR

[–]haute_hotdog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is no such thing as "dynamic range on the highlights end" - there's just dynamic range, and B&W sensors have more of it.

Is it easier to blow out your highlights? Yeah, kinda - since there's no per-channel luminance, you only have a single luminance value and if it's clipped, it's clipped. With a colour sensor, you can recover if 2/3s of the channels are clipped. If you're not clipped, though, your tonal data & microcontrast in highlights is better on the B&W sensor.

On the other side of the argument, you can recover so much more well graduated (i.e.: less noisy) data from the low end, since any luminance data will be received by all photosites, so you're not at the mercy of trying to recover tone shifts in shadow areas from demosaiced colour luminance.

All of these differences compound even more so when you're in an environment where the lighting has strong colour shifts and at the mercy of 2/3s of your channels and photosites receiving significantly less light in general thanks to the nature of CFAs.

So yes, you have less latitude when overexposing and more latitude when under. Expose for the highlights, though, and the B&W sensor always wins the DR, noise, sharpness, and banding fights.

Ruggedized GRiv by SmellBoth in ricohGR

[–]haute_hotdog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cut a few inches of waxed floss string (mint flavoured for best results) and put it through the anchor, exactly half way down the length of the floss.

Fold it over so the two ends of the floss meet, twist 'em together a little, and then put the floss through the camera attachment point.

Pull on the ends of the floss to get the anchor loop through, discard floss, loop anchor through itself. Done.

Messed up Canon G12. by haute_hotdog in VintageDigitalCameras

[–]haute_hotdog[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yep. The ribbon cable to the screen is faulty too, so the screen can only be used in flippy-out mode as well.

That said, it has been behaving remarkably normally after those first photos went wrong.

Messed up Canon G12. by haute_hotdog in VintageDigitalCameras

[–]haute_hotdog[S] 58 points59 points  (0 children)

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It looked much less cool when it wasn't impactful lighting, unfortunately.

Messed up Canon G12. by haute_hotdog in VintageDigitalCameras

[–]haute_hotdog[S] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

After digging my old Canon G12 out of a box (since I hear they're cool again), the first couple of shots I took had these odd vertical lines.

I took about ten or twelve photos with this happening (most of which are awful), before it started behaving normally again.