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- Miguel Tejada-Flores
Still, performance is hard to believe if you look at the size of the camera - and the lens is very, very good indeed. It's truely pocketable, and it's also a real one-handed camera, peculiar, but very nice in use. I'd actually love a GR with an EVF and an updated sensor - but if that ever happens, noone knows.
M.
Yep. I agree with you 1000 per cent on that one. I used and truly enjoyed and shot with both a GR - and its Nikon cousin, the Coolpix A - for some time - and I acquired and used the clip-on 28mm FOV viewfinders for both - but neither clip-on viewfinder ever truly satisfied my secret cravings for a good quality EVF which I could actually use for composing, framing, shooting and - on occasion - for truly detailed (focus peaking, anyone?) manual focusing in certain circumstances.
And the updated sensor would merely be icing on the overall (compact) cake. Although, obviously, EVF's do add a slight bit of bulk to a Camera's overall dimensions - and probably would make the GR (or the Coolpix A) less of a jeans-pocketable compact, and more of a larger-coat-pocket pocketable one.
But I seriously doubt whether Ricoh has any intention of ever coming out with such an update, and Nikon has long since abandoned the Coolpix A. Which leaves one with the G1x V.iii ... hmmmm. Someone (a fan, I believe) once opined that the newer G1x Mark III may in fact be a spiritual upgrade to Ricoh's earlier compact line - the GX100 and GX200 - and in fact suggested that the newer G1x comes closer to being a GX300 than any other currently available quality compact cameras.
I wonder if they were right? Damn...I may just have to buy one, to find out
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