Took the GX200 for a walk in the morning and it's as trusty as always, except that I had been spoiled a bit these days to become mindless of its slower AF speed. This resulted in a few defocused shots. Otherwise, I still find the GX200 a camera that gives me the urge to shoot. Its rendering of images at ISO200 or above are crappy to some in terms of noise. But it is exactly for the noise that I prefer the feel of its B&W images. The noise gives a grainy or coarse texture to the final image which is solely lacked in the spotless images produced by, say, my D-Lux5 which are too clean to my liking. For this matter, the GRD3 could probably be preferred over its successor, the GRD4.
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).
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