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I’m loving the gr ii I bought last week. I decided that for half the price of the gr iii it was a good option. The gr cameras are great generally!
As I said above I decided that at nearly half the price to go for the grii and I’ve not been disappointed. It’s a great camera! Obviously I don’t know if I’d have been even more impressed with the griii but it would be difficult!Traded some gear in with A dealer and fancied trying a GR2. Unfortunately they have sent me a GR, I only realised when I was looking for the WiFi and was checking the current firmware. I have taken a few photos with it and I’m seriously impressed. I know the GR is more or less the same as the GR2 but has anyone gone from the 2 to the 3, there’s about £400 difference but I liked the GR a lot more than I thought I would and now wonder if it’s worth going for the 3 for the improvements and if the extra is worth it.
I’d probably do what you said, format in computer and then again in the camera. But SD cards die so probably just get another, better to have more than one anyway.Hmmm... GR II has eaten my SD card!
It will take about 20 Large shots and then starts to write blank images ("Unmatched file" on playback). The last file will be half-written (you can see half a picture and then a solid area of grey/etc). The telltale sign that it has happened is that the green LED (for focus confirmation) flashes for a VERY long time after taking a shot.
Delete, reformat, repeat = same problem. Change to Small size photos, and it will save about 40+ before the same problem occurs. So it looks like there's a bad block (or similar) and the GR's format process doesn't avoid it, so each time it encounters this point, it writes rubbish.
The time that the GR format command takes is so short that it's definitely not doing a low-level format. So I presume the card is toast - unless there's some way to low-level reformat it on a PC/Mac so that the GR's card-writing process avoids the problem area. Might try that, although I'm not sure I want to trust a damaged card anyway.
The camera and card were babied by me. No mishandling, no water, no nastiness. Only actions that might be tangentially relevant: I did put the card into another camera (Sony) and take some photos, and I once forgot to put in any card, so used the camera memory and then copied the photos from memory to card in the GR. All of that worked fine.
Anyone have any similar experience or advice?
Was lucky enough to pop into the classifieds here just as a GRiii came up so I’ve finally succumbed.
Was lucky enough to pop into the classifieds here just as a GRiii came up so I’ve finally succumbed. What a lovely little thing it is.
So much more responsive than my daily driver GR - which I never realised was so slow[emoji2]
Cant speak to the IQ yet as I’ve just been setting it up but I’ve high hopes.
This little beaut joins my GR1S, GRDigital, GXR and GR. Not that I’m a Ricoh fanboy or anything but every other brand I’ve ever bought (Canon, Nikon, Sony, Pentax, Fuji, Leica) I’ve ended up selling on but I’ve never wanted to sell a Ricoh.
I've just got myself a GR III and have a question....
How long does the battery take to charge first time?
It's been plugged in via the mains adapter USB connection that came with the camera for five hours now and the green light hasn't gone out yet. If I switch the camera on the battery indicator has moved to two bars from one.
Tha manual suggests that a fully drained battery should take approx 2.5 hours at 25 degrees. Its probably a few degrees cooler than that today, but even so...
Beginning to worry that there's a problem...
Thanks.
I don’t know but the GR 1 doesn’t take a particularly long time. Silly question but are you sure it’s plugged into the USB? I seem to remember it’s possible to get the sockets confused .
That doesn’t sound great to be honest. I have a GR3 and although I couldn’t tell you how long to charge from empty it usually isn’t that long.I've just got myself a GR III and have a question....
How long does the battery take to charge first time?
It's been plugged in via the mains adapter USB connection that came with the camera for five hours now and the green light hasn't gone out yet. If I switch the camera on the battery indicator has moved to two bars from one.
Tha manual suggests that a fully drained battery should take approx 2.5 hours at 25 degrees. Its probably a few degrees cooler than that today, but even so...
Beginning to worry that there's a problem...
Thanks.
There's only one socket for the cable on the GR III, so I'm presuming I have the right one.
That doesn’t sound great to be honest. I have a GR3 and although I couldn’t tell you how long to charge from empty it usually isn’t that long.
Sounds a long shot but have you tried another cable to rule out that.