The GXR is indeed a neat camera. I use mine most with the A12 Camera Mount fitted to use my M-bayonet lenses, but that A12 50 Macro is a very fine piece. There are lots and lots of subtle features.
Just don't write your custom configs to the card and then format the card. Be sure to copy the custom configs to your computer before you format the card... G On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Boris Liberman <[email protected]> wrote: > I should and probably will make a blog entry on the matter. > > Hi there! > > Two days ago new toys arrived. First and foremost, Ricoh GXR with A12 50mm > macro module. This is outright amazing little camera with infinite > customization and excellent ergonomics. I'd say AF is on par with K10D which > is good enough for most practical purposes while the shutter sound is close > to none - far quieter than any of my Pentaxes. > > They have great deal of neat and useful features: > 1. Snap focus - you click a button (can be programmed to do so on quick and > full pressing of the focus button) - the camera would focus to the > pre-defined distance and then you can take a shot. > > 2. Two-speed manual focus by wire - this is awesome. > > 3. Focus assist by focus peaking - served to you in two varieties - highly > useful. And it works in AF mode too. > > 4. Ability to save your camera settings to the card for later retrieval. As > a person who few times confused "Reset" with "Format" of my Pentax camera > only to curse immediately as all settings had to be re-done, this is most > useful. > > Great little camera this Ricoh is. Great indeed. And in terms of corporate, > I am staying on board, obviously :-). > > Also I got myself a LR 4.1. I notice no performance degradation compared to > LR 3.6. And I am about to get started on the Book module, should be fun. > > So, life is pretty good in terms of photo gear. > > Boris > > -- > 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. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
