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Ricoh GR Digital II Review
 The Ricoh GR Digital II is not your usual run-of-the-mill compact digital camera. The fast 28mm fixed focal length lens, Adobe DNG RAW format, external hotshoe and 1:1 aspect ratio for square format photos all point to a serious camera for the seriously keen photographer. As does the £399 / $699 price-tag, which could alternatively buy you a DSLR camera with kit lens. The Ricoh GR Digital II is also not the only compact with a fixed 28mm lens, being recently joined by the much-delayed Sigma DP1, which offers a much larger APS-C sized sensor. Mark Goldstein found out if the Ricoh GR Digital II is a worthy addition to Ricoh’s extensive line-up of digital compacts for the professional.
Website: Ricoh GR Digital II Review
Published:
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
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Reader Comments
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I own a gr2 since 6 weeks, as a snapshot camera when not using the DSLR
it is great, good feeling, nice weight and design, great macro and sharp pictures. I only shoot in the raw mode, as with the DSLR.
i found one negative thing : the data transfer can only take place through the cable. not with a cardreader. the ricoh formatted disk (superblock) is not recognized by windows, linux or mac ? did i miss something ?
sjoerd at 10:19pm on Wednesday, April 30, 2008
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I used a card-reader to transfer pictures shot with the GR Digital II (it's a SanDisk Extreme USB 2 model).
Mark Goldstein at 08:11am on Thursday, May 01, 2008
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I used the sandisk sdhc 4GB and the sandisk extreme III 2GB. both have the same problem, card gets formatted in superblock format. i have tried 3 different cardreaders as well. Ricoh support is not very user friendly. they tell me i should contact the cardreaders vendor :(
however the cable transfer worked fine.
I also installed the latest firmware
sjoerd at 06:06pm on Friday, May 16, 2008
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