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Subject: [Leica] OT Pana GF1 (20 pancake) & Ricoh GRD-III
From: richard.lists at gmail.com (Richard Man)
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:21:22 -0800
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The GRD series is known for is "film look" at high ISO. They are
awfully small. You can probably hang it off a keychain :-)


On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>
> On Jan 29, 2010, at 10:06 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>
>> Steve, the Ricoh has the usual tiny sensor found in compacts; and in 
>> addition, the lens is non-interchangeable. So I am not sure how relevant 
>> such a comparison would be.
>
>
> I guess that with the lenses I mentionned the image quality of the GF1 is 
> much better, that's ?what I am after....
>
> I saw the Ricoh the other day for the first time, tiny , attractive, and 
> the images were excellent, (a friend had one)
>
> I am curious about how these attractive small cameras compare...
>
> many thanks, Steve
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
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>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 30, 2010, at 6:50 AM, Steve Barbour wrote:
>>
>>> I'm wondering with the recent interest in the Panasonic GF1 with the 
>>> 20mm pancake lens and an external optical VF, has any used/compared this 
>>> to the Ricoh GRD-III with its 28mm lens and the optional external 
>>> viewfinder...
>>>
>>> I 'd be very interested to hear your thoughts, reactions, comparisons,
>>>
>>> appreciated,
>>>
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
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