Is the ricoh water resistant? My GX100 only took one (very small) splash to go completely bonkers (it recovered after a couple of weeks).
waterproof. i've taken a bubblebath with it, completely submerged....
with diligent application, the camera could open up huge avenues to explore. i just find it somewhat annoying to use/learn, having gotten used to the elegance of the GRD/GRDII. (you also have to understand that i have never ever used a zoom camera in my life before so that was another annoyance/feature that i didn't know how to handle properly :ROTFL
my biggest bugbear with it is the slow aperture. it hunts for focus and really seems to have trouble finding it, even when you think it shouldn't be problematic. to use it in adverse conditions (forget 1600 or higher -- intolerable noise), you have to go to 800 and, because of the sensor size, the noise is not attractive in many circumstances.... then again, i was a witch and only really tested it thoroughly twice: once in the rain/metro and once at a basketball game (where i did get a few surprisingly decent shots).
to be honest, i think i had unfair expectations for the camera and resented it because it meant i wouldn't be buying the Zeiss 25/2.8. i really think it is in a class above the other weather resistant cameras -- but it also weighs twice as much and costs twice as much. for camping and heavy duty use, i would not hesitate to recommend it being worth the $$$. but just to have in your bag in case it rains? overkill.
then again, if you could find a used version of the older model that was based on the original GRD, i'd say snap it up!
