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Oxide Blu
Guest
First impressions:
- It's bigger than the GRD II, but not by much.
- The lens ring extends slightly beyond the hand grip. The GRD II hand grip is just a tad beyond the lens ring.
- There is an extra contact in the hot shoe, presumably for the GF-1 flash/strobe due out this fall.
- The display ... WOW!!! ... This makes it all worth moving from the GRD II to the GRD III. If you are a GRD II user, the increased size and resolution of the GRD III display is going to blow you away. After playing with it for only a few minutes I was wondering how I ever managed with the lower resolution display on the GRD II. (And I absolutely loved my GRD II.)
- There is a crap load more things in the menus. Scrolling (holding down the up arrow or down arrow) is now fast but not so fast that you can't take your finger off the scroll button and stop on the menu item you want.
Ricoh hit a home run on this one. They did right to discontinue support of the GRD II. The GRD II and the GRD III are two entirely different cameras that share a common design and similar menu/button footprint.
Now, to go play with the thing.
- It's bigger than the GRD II, but not by much.
- The lens ring extends slightly beyond the hand grip. The GRD II hand grip is just a tad beyond the lens ring.
- There is an extra contact in the hot shoe, presumably for the GF-1 flash/strobe due out this fall.
- The display ... WOW!!! ... This makes it all worth moving from the GRD II to the GRD III. If you are a GRD II user, the increased size and resolution of the GRD III display is going to blow you away. After playing with it for only a few minutes I was wondering how I ever managed with the lower resolution display on the GRD II. (And I absolutely loved my GRD II.)
- There is a crap load more things in the menus. Scrolling (holding down the up arrow or down arrow) is now fast but not so fast that you can't take your finger off the scroll button and stop on the menu item you want.
Ricoh hit a home run on this one. They did right to discontinue support of the GRD II. The GRD II and the GRD III are two entirely different cameras that share a common design and similar menu/button footprint.
Now, to go play with the thing.