Street Photography Camera
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- craigatkinson0
I was in London at the weekend. I've been thinking about new cameras especially with the amount of crazy new ones that have been released. After a day using the GRD4 I remembered why I don't need another camera. The camera was on all day, still a quarter battery left. I took 700 shots using the snap function. Zero lag. 3200dpi at f1.9 grain is like film grain - amazing. Built like a tank and people think it looks shit, so don't assume anything. No lights so its v discreet.
How often do you really use a zoom, and of that, how often do you actually need o use the zoom - is it a feature you just use because you have it rather than needing? I would like Ricoh to pay me but sadly they do not.- I think all the GX and GR range have the film-like noise/grain.23kon
- 23kon0
Craig I agree. I'll be keeping my GX100 for the exact reasons - well built and VERY discreet (i even have the low light red light helper thing covered over with black tape hehe) and a very silent camera.
- Had my gx100 for 4 years, still my favorite PAS camera!JamesBoynton
- craigatkinson0
There a new Pentax, K0 or something - might be worth a look or too big maybe?
- sine0
a preview of that Fujifilm X-Pro1 posted a couple pages ago:
http://www.dpreview.com/previews…- i've been all over every review of every mirrorless released over the past year alreadys lol23kon
- craigatkinson0
23kon, what did you decide?
I've been pretty surprised by the S100, think it's better than the S95 / S90.
New prices of the X100 - £600 are good though!
- Hombre_Lobo0
@pressplay, post some XZ-1 pics! would love to see your snaps!
- Hombre_Lobo0
@craig
yeh dude, i think the ricoh deserve some serious praise for being the only company to really push compact big sensor cameras, very ahead of the times in that respect. High iso pics from them are great and of course you get some nice DOF becuase of the large sensor. And i know how much you love the detail you get form yours, particularly in B&W :)
- Hombre_Lobo0
I am currently very tempted by this -
I've been wanting a good compact for sometime. And it looks ace. its a bit old, so its cheap too!
Sure the king of compacts are the s95/s100, but the s100 cost about twice as much as the p300. p300 is £180, the s100 is £360ish
p300 -
lacks RAW (biggie i know), but the jpegs are v good.
has a 24mm f1.8 lens! (vs s100 24 f2)
full hd video and 720p @ 60fps (only the sony hx9v beats that, and the s100 only has high fps video at 640x480)
very good video quality (bout same as s100, if not better)
900k screen (s100 only has a 400k screen)
continous shutter of 7fps (vs s100's 2.3fps!)
3cm macro (same as s100)
slightly better battery life.
Very good stabilization (better than s100, hand holding 1/4 of a sec happily)Images are slightly better on s100 when pixel peeping, but at full screen its v hard to tell them apart. iso 1600 and 3200 are quite a bit better on s100 though.
Crazy good value for a compact camera if you dont need RAW. Sure i'd rather have the s100, its amazing, but I could have 2 p300's instead. One in each hand! Perhaps I'll later regret no RAW feature though...
Also the lx-5 and xz-1 are great, but quite chunky compared.
some p300 pics -
- Horp0
- desmo0
Just get the x100 and call it a day :)
- Yeh Craig would probably love it. Shame its so big, the ricohs do a way better job of being compact!Hombre_Lobo
- doesnotexist0
be true to the street; get something bad and make something beautiful with it. get an old nikon body and some old lenses. use real film. iunno.
i've always preferred something that looks more like a phone because it's hard to be discrete when you have a lense in someone's face.
- colin_s0
k-1000.
- sublocked0
iphone 4s.
- rusty_ace0
this just popped up on Gizmodo...looks really interesting
Sony RX100
1-inch sensor
f/1.8 aperture
28-100mm Vario-Sonnar Zeiss lens with 3.6x optical zoom
ISO range of 100-25600
1080p recording at 60 frames or 720p MP4
sensor is a 20.2-megapixel
will be able to capture RAW images (in addition to JPEGs)
$650
- Atkinson0
I don't think it'll be very good. Just a thought.
- Atkinson0
I got the x100 a little while ago - very nice. Thinking of the Ricoh GRX + 28mm lens perhaps.
- nb0
Many street photographers will tell you to stay away from SLRs. They block much of your vision from the street. Rangefinders are better.