Decent zoom range, decent lens, raw, pocket-size. Sounds good to me. I had a Ricoh GR-1 film camera which was terrific until the battery compartment door fell off.
Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tim Bray > Sent: 07 December 2008 08:36 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: PESO - Rainy Manhattan food > > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [The Ricoh GX100] Looks like a damn good camera. > > Well... On the one hand, it's got a teeny pocket-cam sensor with too > many pixels so crud sets in around ISO250, only zooms out to 72mm, > takes 4+ seconds to save a RAW, and you can only get it from Adorama. > (The follow-on GX200 fixes the slow-RAW-save problem.) > > On the other it's plenty wide at 24mm, the lens is lovely, the > shooting delay is very low for a compact, and the ergonomics are good > even compared to Pentax's IMHO excellent standards. > > Well, and it fits in my pocket. -T > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
