Sean has just posted an excellent review — one of his best — of the Ricoh GX100, which to me is a landmark camera in its many excellent quallities, among them great handling characteristics, a high quality lens, and a "stepped zoom" that allows setting the lens at 24, 28, 35, 50, and 72 EFOV, which is important for experienced photograohers who are used to work with prime lenses. As I bought the lens last Tuesday in Tokyo because I found it on sale until August 31 at Yodobashi Camera for US$580 with the EVF, I thought that this is the camera that like would have produced if it were an innovative company, but I already thought that about the Ricoh GR-D.

As some of you know from my earlier posting I have been attatracted to small sensor canmeras because of gtheir film-look in B&W, and their great depth of field is an asset for street photography. Indeed it was an article on Sean's site that alretted me to the fact that small sensor cameras need not be mindless point and shoots, but rather a new format, the way the Leica was a new format in the 1920s.

Here is the first GX100 picture, shot at ISO 400, that I have printed:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1117/1296205683_d2966a5152_o.jpg

—Mitch/Bangkok