Just some personal favorites of mine-
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Seeing all these images reminds me of what a great camera the GRD was for capturing day-to-day moments...sigh. Makes me wonder if I should go back to it, I had switched to an E-P1 which is great in its own way, but still. We have a Canon Rebel as our general family cam, so for budgetary purposes I only keep 1 compact at a time for myself.
The E-P1 has it all over the old GRD in terms of technical image quality. But for candid snaps the GRD is great, and I don't mind noise level at ISO 400, or even 800 in B&W. The JPEG processing in this cam is just so unique, nothing else is like it. The high ISO images simply look like heavy noise grain, of course detail is lost because of it but subjectively the images don't look digitally harsh or smudged, they just look like heavily pushed
film. I tell myself the E-P1 is better for getting great quality images (and IBIS is great), but it's not like I'm printing a bunch of 8 x 10's anyway.
I wish I could meld the GRD I and GRD III together into a super GRD, it would have stuff like fast lens, adjustable snap focus mode, and selectable custom modes of GRD III, with JPEG processing of GRD I. I would love a GXR but its beyond my budget right now.