The D-Lux-3 is a very good little camera but I like the handling of the GX100 and GRD/GRD2 better, and find it confusing to go back and forth between the Ricoh and the D-Lux-3. I like the "stepped zoom" on the GX100 a lot more than the "normal" zoom on the D-Lux-3.
The D-Lux-3 lens seems sharper than that of the GX100, but I like the latter more at ISO 400. At ISO 800 I find the D-Lux-3 a hit-or-miss affair, but Maggie has done well at this speed. At ISO 1600 the D-Lux-3 seems to have in camera smoothing that smears the image even in RAW, which makes the camera unusable at this speed.
The GX100's RAW files are softer than those of the D-LUx-3 and the GRD cameras, in my view, both in terms of contrast and sharpness — but we'll see whether that's really true for sharpness as well when we have Sean's review. However, the GX100 RAW files take well to (the often necessary) aggressive sharpening most of the time but not always. In this respect I like both GRD cameras better.
On the GRD vs the GRD2 it's clear that the image quality of the latter is substantially better than of the GRD, by one or two stops, so that ISO 400 files are like the ISO 100 or 200 files of the GRD. The problem is that I liked the the look of the ISO 200 files on the GRD very much — I'm referring to B&W — and had trouble initially with getting the look I wanted with the GRD2 at ISO 100 and 200. But now I'm getting more of the look I want, but I'm still not decided whether to keep on using the GRD at ISO 200. I like the look of the GRD2 at 400 a lot.
(Jag kann ikke snakka dansk, except for saying "roedgroed med floede" and "han aer ikke riktikt klug"; but I can't speak skånsk either. And as for counting in Danish, I can never remember what halvtreds means.)
My wife is in Copenhagen now and she's sending me some poelser, sill, og havarti with someone who's coming to Bangkok on the 2nd. I'll grant you that Danish food is better than Swedish, but as for the language — that's another thing...
Actually tomorrow, I'm going for lunch at a Danish restaurant that has smoerrebroed, including sillebord, each New Year's day for 1 baht, which is about 3 US cents. I'll have some Carlsberg and Aalborg Jubilaems Akvavit as well — unfortunately they don't have Tuborg.
—Mitch/Bangkok
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