Are We Meeting Today?

(Ricoh GX200; water taxi and the "driver")

A Ricoh user, ismall, texted me this in the morning. We had been in contact but probably both of us tried to be not pushy. So I kept sending her email and tweets instead of calling her direct and she kept waiting for me to contact her first. Great that she texted me finally.

So we met quite early this morning. She brought alsong a film camera and a GRD3 while I a Leica X1 in case I need to put more pixels in the images, Leica D-Lux 5 for its zoom range and the GX200 mounted with the wide converter. We spent a day shooting out from the tram, on an outlying island and in an open-air market. It was a long, enjoyable day and here are some more of the shots I did with the GX200:

Comments

ismall said…

I had a great time. Really fun being able to spend a whole day on photography. My HK shots are being developed now so it'll be fun to compare the diff shots of the same things.

24 April 2012 at 22:40

Nevin said…

I am yet to find time to post the photos taken that day. Let's see if I can post similar posts following your posts. Will be fun comparing the different perspectives then.

25 April 2012 at 02:14

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.

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