Guy Mancuso
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Torture test 2. Someone needs to pick it up a notch
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CharleyGO GREEN !!!!
Second that.Charley
are you possibly biased
w/a grd1 & 2 :ROTFL::ROTFL::ROTFL:
and YEA !!! GO GREEN GO
That's pretty much the conclusion I came to as well, and one of the main reasons I sold my D-Lux 3. Added to that was the RAW speed of the GRDII, the "gripability" of the body, the superb controls and handling compared to the Leica. I'm quite happy with the Ricoh grain with the sort of shooting I do!hmm, maybe I spoke too soon. I shot a few comparisons and it is interesting. The colors on the GRD2 indoors are more accurate (using auto WB) than the DLux3, and while the image from the Leica looks a tad "cleaner", it is at the expense of nice grain. It looks like there is some NR going on in the Leica raw file. As Jack noted above, when you "push" the GRD2 file it looks quite nice, the DLux3 less so.
I would agree totally, and add that IMO ISO performance between the GX100 and D-Lux3 are not significant; the GRD is superior to both of them.To my eye the iso800 performance of the GRD2 is a particular strength. I can shoot the DLux3 high iso, and the shake reduction helps out in low light. But I prefer the look of the GRD2 files at higher iso.
i'm surprised that Jack, who so often is captured with 'less-than-pleasing' expressions and poses, would so fool-heartily throw such a gauntlet into the ring.I'm captivated by Jim's less than pleased expression in contrast with his "happy" penguins.