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David Paul Carr
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Does anyone else have problems with
1) the corner sharpness of the GRD2 and 2) the extremely mediocre accuracy of the GV-2 viewfinder?
I've been testing the GRD2 against the G9 and, frankly, it doesn't doesn't seem as good as the Canon: more noise, less sharp, less able to resolve fine detail and with very soft corners. Poorer high ISO performance too.
It also takes far more effort to get the most out of the raw files from the Ricoh.
This is not to say it's bad. I've made a couple of (80 x 100+ cm @ 200 dpi) big colour prints from GRD2 files that look spectacular but surely a camera of that price with "pro" pretensions should have a better performance with regards to the two issues mentioned at the top?
Oh, and wouldn't it be nice not to have a sandpaper finish on the rear of the viewfinder? As it is it will destroy my glasses in days...
1) the corner sharpness of the GRD2 and 2) the extremely mediocre accuracy of the GV-2 viewfinder?
I've been testing the GRD2 against the G9 and, frankly, it doesn't doesn't seem as good as the Canon: more noise, less sharp, less able to resolve fine detail and with very soft corners. Poorer high ISO performance too.
It also takes far more effort to get the most out of the raw files from the Ricoh.
This is not to say it's bad. I've made a couple of (80 x 100+ cm @ 200 dpi) big colour prints from GRD2 files that look spectacular but surely a camera of that price with "pro" pretensions should have a better performance with regards to the two issues mentioned at the top?
Oh, and wouldn't it be nice not to have a sandpaper finish on the rear of the viewfinder? As it is it will destroy my glasses in days...