Ricoh has posted a firmware update for the Ricoh GR Digital III digital camera. Version 1.21 fixes a number of playback- and MF-related bugs, plus an issue with the GW-2 wide conversion lens. Click through / read on for the details.

Website: Ricoh GRD III Firmware 1.21

Ricoh’s Release Notes Regarding Firmware v1.21

Modified the following phenomena.
1 With the combination of the following conditions, it will not properly appear the image in the position display window that is shown when you playback with enlarged.
- [Auto Rotate] ON
- Rotate the camera to the lengthwise direction
- Playback the picture that was captured in the lengthwise direction and with [3:2] or [1:1] in the image size

2 Set the focus to [MF] (Manual focus) and turn the power off, and then turn the power on again, the focus distance will become infinity.

3 In Manual focus, if you enlarge the center part of the image in the screen, the enlarged part may become black-out rarely.

4 With attaching the GW-2 (wide conversion lens), there may be rare occasions that information on the focus distance in Exif will not be recorded correctly (Correctly, which should be recorded as 21mm; 35 mm filmcameras equivalent).

5 In taking pictures by switching between macro mode and normal mode, the resolution in surrounding parts (four corners) may change.

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