John_Nevill
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The courier dropped a parcel on my doorstep this morning, the new Ricoh GRD II.
It was immediately out of the box, battery on charge and beckoning me to get out and take some photos.
Unfortunately the day job got in the way and I'm hoping to get out tomorrow and start the process of evaluation and writing a mini review.
First impressions are, its small, black, has a very solid feel, seems quite responsive, DNGs are large (only 100 on a 2Gb SD card), IQ looks very good, noise is surprisingly low (up to about 400 ISO) and it has a wealth of usable and well thought-out features.
No doubt about it, this will be going everywhere with me over the next few months!
Given the DNG filesize, I decided to order a 8Gb Sandisk SDHC and will be snapping away liberally in no time.
As my review begins to take shape, I'll post up some links to DNGs, for those who may be interested.
Some say its the 5D of compacts, I must confess it's looking that way!
It was immediately out of the box, battery on charge and beckoning me to get out and take some photos.
Unfortunately the day job got in the way and I'm hoping to get out tomorrow and start the process of evaluation and writing a mini review.
First impressions are, its small, black, has a very solid feel, seems quite responsive, DNGs are large (only 100 on a 2Gb SD card), IQ looks very good, noise is surprisingly low (up to about 400 ISO) and it has a wealth of usable and well thought-out features.
No doubt about it, this will be going everywhere with me over the next few months!
Given the DNG filesize, I decided to order a 8Gb Sandisk SDHC and will be snapping away liberally in no time.
As my review begins to take shape, I'll post up some links to DNGs, for those who may be interested.
Some say its the 5D of compacts, I must confess it's looking that way!