Street Photography: Figuring Out How

(Ricoh GRD4)

As I started out on the journey to street photography with Ricoh GX200, it is befitting to use a shot done with the GRD4 from Ricoh to adorn this post listing out links to the past week's discussions on practising the tactics of street photography.

1) Education for Street Photographers (video)

2) Heels Over Head

3) You'; ) re Good

4) Stay Ready and Snap

5) Twice

6) Anticipate and Go Ahead

(P.S.: A few days later, I tried wearing not in black - black definitely makes you look a serious somebody - and brought with me not a Leica. I approached passers-by for permission to do snaps and was turned down. So I did it in literally the same fashion again a few more days later. Now there are two points to be added to this "going up to ask for permission" tactic, namely, to dress in something to look serious and to use a camera which impresses people as serious.)

Comments

Old 57 said…

A new camera? I would love to read your impressions on the GRD4.

11 March 2012 at 18:21

Nevin said…

Hi, thank you for dropping by. Before I can spare time for the impressions, a quick one about this camera so far is: GRD4 is the pick of the basket for street photography.

Have a nice day!

12 March 2012 at 04:54

New Low Prices

The window shopping some hours ago has almost provoked my AgIDS illness. Just in case you’re in Hong Kong or are coming here, and have the money to burn (All in HK$/ body only): GX200 = $3,280 GRD2 = $3,380 LX3 = $3,180 G10 = $3,280 Prices are available form a gear shop on the 1st floor of the Mongkok Computer Centre. Besides these new low prices, I found that Wing Shing Photo (55-57Sai Yeung Choi St., MK Tel: 2396 6886/ 91-95 Fa Yuen St., MK Tel: 2396 6885) is offering a Sony A700 + Carl Zeiss Lens package for HK$9,980 (hopefully, a bargain will make it some hundreds cheaper).

Mini Review of GRD II by Colin Bradbury

Today, we are going to learn some useful insights from Colin Bradbury in his mini review of the GRD II. Colin is a professional photographer stationed in Hong Kong. Photos are copyrighted to him. (St Agnes, Cornwall. 'Environmental' portrait) By COLIN BRADBURY: Just back from 2 weeks in rural England with the family over Christmas. Since this was a family holiday and not a photography trip I wanted to travel light. On that basis I left my DSLRs at home and took the GRDII as my only camera to save weight but also to see how useful it would be as the only camera in a variety of photographic situations. I have to say I was very pleased with it and didn't miss having a zoom or longer lens at all. The 28mm is a perfect single focal length and proved itself useful in a variety of situations. Landscapes are clearly well suited to the 28mm but less obviously I have also found it to be great for portraits. With a 28mm you are forced to do 2 things. First, to get in closer ...

Respite

(Ricoh GRD4) Yahoo! I found the invoice for the GRD4 and sent it to the dealer for repairing the malfunctioning manual focus, which rendered the snap mode totally useless. I hope it will be soon for the GRD4 to be up and about.

GX GARNERINGS

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