![]() I jumped on it, again reading everything I could, saw every video review I could find. Luckily around that time a Fuji X70 popped up in the photo news. Well the sensor was not upgraded since last model so it is a bit dated. Mushed pixels, red color was destroyed and not even desaturating it helped as it still showed lot of artefacts. Files from the Ricoh GR were awful on 6400. I wanted (and still do) to continue taking such pictures so the way how a camera renders the high ISO is important to me. At last but not least thanks to the high ISO I could shoot in the darkest of places. I could stack objects in multiple planes and let them interact in the final image. I was not looking at the LCD, the wide angle and 12 mm focal length allowed me to get basically everything into the frame and in focus and it also provided me with a different perspective. The way I was shooting was also different. Kind of like a pushed Tri-X, very pleasing to my eyes. Don’t get me wrong those pictures are noisy as hell but the way how the noise is rendered when you turn off all sharpening and noise reduction and bump the contrast way high it reminds me of film grain. Why you might ask? About two years ago I was stuck in a rut and I started small project where I was posting black and white digital photos taken with Canon EOS M in aperture priority on 6400 ISO, usually with manual focus wide angle lens. She’s not giving me a bad look because of the loud shutter – she’s acting. I was specifically taking pictures on 6400 ISO. At the store I took some test pictures to inspect at home. I’ve read about anything I could about it and was pretty determined that I’ll buy it. Earlier this year the price in my country dropped significantly (the GR I here cost the same as GR II on B&H and GR II was through the roof like 1/3 more expensive). Since last September and my first hands on experience with Ricoh compact film camera I pretty much settled on a Ricoh GR II. As for the digital compact I was still on the lookout. ![]() The latter craving was fulfilled thanks to none other than Hamish himself when he sold me his Minolta TC-1. My approach is by no small part based on my experience with film and analog cameras.įor some time I’ve been craving a hi-end compact camera. I know this is a review of a Fuji X70, a digital camera! But bear with me. ![]()
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