kai.e.g.
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There's no shortage of badass subjects (and backgrounds for subjects) around here to photograph, I have to admit!Ah - but daggy or not, living in Italy means that you beat us all hands down in badasseryness!
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There's no shortage of badass subjects (and backgrounds for subjects) around here to photograph, I have to admit!Ah - but daggy or not, living in Italy means that you beat us all hands down in badasseryness!
you've kept me giggling as well here! and i think you've made your decision (whether you realise it or not).... my brother fell in love with my GRDII, even as i tried to push him towards the practicality of the GX100. he wanted to be badass. he is badass! as are you...There's no shortage of badass subjects (and backgrounds for subjects) around here to photograph, I have to admit!
Of course - my pinhole camera jibe was just that.Cam is right Kai. I choosed the GX100 for its practicality (my wife wanted a zoom lens and I wanted a wideangle lens). Know I would opt the GRDII as well. It is the main reason why I still love my old GR1. Simplicity. With a prime lens you will make the composition and not the camera with a zoom lens.
Talking about restraint: a real haiku would have a reference to the season in the first lineLili you're so right
restraint can bring clarity
go make photos now
Buy it quick . . . before you have time to change your mind!Talking about restraint: a real haiku would have a reference to the season in the first line
I've been all over the place, considering the GR-D, then the GX-100, then the LX-2, then the GR-D ii, then back to the GX-100, then back to the LX-2, then on to the Leica D-Lux 3 and now back to the GX-100. Now I really think I will settle for the GX-100, honestly !
This is obviously true, but film is expensive and impractical except for special projects, as far as I'm concerned.ures from these two cameras have been fairly evenly distributed around here. And for what it's worth, a thoroughly un-sexy $150 manual Pentax K1000 kit loaded with Tri-X or Kodacolor Gold still blows both of them away, if you're talking about capture speed and IQ.
This also is true.Mitch, I don't subscribe to the M8/dSLR-as-medium-format analogy. 35mm film has way more dynamic tonal range than either of those options, and way, way more than the Ricohs. And in terms of size, street imagery was invented and maybe perfected with cameras that are larger than the GRD2. Its body-size is amazing, but it still poses capture speed and resolution compromises that the pre-digital tiny cameras didn't.
Would you have had the better camera with you? I'm quite taken with the analogy between the small sensor cameras and a sketchbook. If your primary interest is painting then you're never going to regard your sketches as more than preparatory work. I know that I am not going to carry my SLR kit unless I'm reasonably certain that there will be time and opportunities for some dedicated photograph making. The GR-D and accessories allow me to do some casual photography as and when the opportunity arises without an impractical (for me) amount of gear or an impossible expenditure of money: I can't justify paying for an M8 and the associated glass!But these issues have begun to erode my confidence and question the wisdom of committing to a camera that has failed me in circumstances where a better camera wouldn't have.
For some people the compromises are justified: sounds like they may not be for you. Some people like charcoal as their main medium.I'm sorry if questioning the wisdom of using small sensor cameras in a small sensor forum is out of line, but there it is.
This is a big deal to me...with all my creative tools. I've had great basses and guitars over the years that I've sold for one reason or another (admitedly often because I found a new "girl"). But for whatever reason, certain ones just worked *for me* and I bonded with them. I'm finding the same with cameras. The only expensive part is that I'm also finding that like with instruments, the ones that feel good at first often times aren't the long term keepers, and those that I struggle with a bit can sometimes become quite comfortable and/or push me in good ways if I'm patient and give them a chance.Anyway, I'm not planning on selling my GX100 any time soon, which is a sign that, whatever my frustrations, I've already made some meaningful pictures with it and developed an emotional connection to it that doesn't occur with every camera.
Hi ThereThis is a big deal to me...with all my creative tools. I've had great basses and guitars over the years that I've sold for one reason or another (admitedly often because I found a new "girl"). But for whatever reason, certain ones just worked *for me* and I bonded with them. I'm finding the same with cameras. The only expensive part is that I'm also finding that like with instruments, the ones that feel good at first often times aren't the long term keepers, and those that I struggle with a bit can sometimes become quite comfortable and/or push me in good ways if I'm patient and give them a chance.
Hmm...I suppose that goes for relationships with the opposite sex as well. Yet another life lesson...
Well, the 14n has long since gone, and the M8 is certainly a good betYour M8 sounds like a better bet.
D'oh ! I should've followed your advice ! Now Olympus has a pancape lens out and I'm reconsideringBuy it quick . . . before you have time to change your mind!
I'm sure you'll enjoy it, they are all lovely and capable cameras.
IanIs the GX100 more portable? I find
its build a bit delicate. The Oly is larger,
but its more robust build could conceivably
translate in to less hesitation about having
it along.
I have a GX100 and I am generally very pleased with it. Back in the old days when I used film I had a Minox GTE which went everywhere with me whenever I could not take an SLR. I have tried many p&s cameras as replacements for the Minox. I bought the GX100 last August. I did not get the GRD as I wanted 35mm EFL rather than 28mm. The GX100 with the step zoom is a good solution. After having the camera for 2 weeks I got a nasty dose of dust inside the lens, so far as I can understand a very common problem with this camera. The dealer exchanged the camera for a new one and over 1000 exposures later no repeat of the problem.....yet! I am however totally paranoid about dust, and never carry it between shots without the lens cap on.Ian
One of the few things I truly dislike about any of these little cameras is the fragile retracting lens mechanism. It can also be an avenue for dust.
Lili