The Ricoh GR Digital Diary Photo Gallery by Sam

The Ricoh GR Digital Diary

The Ricoh GR Digital is a fun to use 8 megapixel camera
with some great strengths, and some glaring faults, deceptively disguised
as a point and shoot. The camera is built around the superb 28mm f/2.4 GR lens,
but has a very noisy sensor. The noise, however, is very film-like in its 'grain'
and lends itself superbly to digital black & white work of the old school flavor.
This is my GR diary...

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Grey Poupon	Dark
The Royal Flush	God Save Queens
The Cart Lady	Smokin' Beauty :-)
"FREE"	History & The Street
Re:	Smoke 'N Java
Memory Lane: The Old Hood	Cruisin' With The Cruiser
Happy Easter 2009	A Magnificent Church...
Repent	Arch Deluxe
Eagles Over Elmhurst	Banana City
D.C. Reality	Hero Worship
Plant City	East Side Ride
NY Humor	The Door
Savior	The Divine
Smoke	2007: Daddy Longlegs & A Flock Of Seagulls
Urban Decay	Black Rain #1
Black Rain #2	Guiter (?)
Blurry Night	A Rainy Night In The City
London Leather Boys	Black Plants
Dreamscape	Poochie Love
Gear Talk	Abracadabra
"Lady In Black"	The "A" Train
"A" Train: 100 % Crop	Coffee At The Kennedy's
Big Building Fun	Dinner At The Hut
Divine Intervention	Oops!!!
The Wait II

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Paolo Peggi (aka Bracciodiferro)		08-Oct-2011 08:09
Great work,thanks! Vote Paolo

Tom LeRoy		10-Sep-2011 21:20
I love the way you shot this gallery! Great photographic work!V!

Guest		04-Dec-2009 09:57
Great images Sam

settler		14-Nov-2009 21:26
I'll have to re-visit this ..too many fine images...BV!!

Richard Calmes		25-Oct-2009 13:56
In the hands of a real artist like you, any camera will produce great images like these! V

Marc de Wit		24-Oct-2009 14:50
Sam , great work again

Michael Shpuntov		24-Oct-2009 13:22
Some very nice images in your gallery. Good compositions and B&W rendering. Vote

zyziza		23-Oct-2009 09:09
Very interesting diary with few great shots here! BV

Jim's Atavistic Visions		22-Oct-2009 22:23
Another great B&W gallery! VVV!... Josefina

an nguyen		21-Oct-2009 16:04
Your work inspired me a great deal. Had to come back to see them and always with a smile.

olivier bruning		21-Oct-2009 15:40
I thouroughly enjoyed this gallery....insipered and inspiring! ~V~

Martha Albuquerque		20-Oct-2009 10:36
Awesome work~V

Martha Albuquerque		20-Oct-2009 10:31
You are so awesome with your creativity and point of views Sam! Love it all, V~ :)

Lee G		20-Oct-2009 06:03
Great combo of equipment, artist and subjects, a street shooters playground! I think any camera will produce in your capable hands, fine examples of your talent, Sam. ~V~

settler		19-Oct-2009 07:47
More like turning the pages of a book than browsing a gallery..Hugely atmospheric, a great work!..BV!!

XiaoBernard99		18-Oct-2009 21:23
Excellent Gallery.Various,the composition so interesting,a model for me of street walk photo(XB Language not under control),and the essential here the quality of treatment as in past with the BW,with the class of this vision of photography.BV

bill friedlander		20-Jul-2009 19:02
Beautiful B&W gallery. Excellent tonality and good variety of subjects. V

eye4bw		20-Jul-2009 00:36
Your Black & White images are stunning! You should display them athttp://eye4bw.com/ a Black & White photo community site. It's Free to join. Your beautiful art work will be a great inspiration to many photo enthusiasts. Hope to see you there! Thank you for your support!

Guest		14-Jul-2009 22:12
Sam, you are a talented photographer!! I must come back to this gallery!! Excellent images!! You make it seem so easy!! Great work!! !!

Guest		14-Jul-2009 10:38
Another great black and white series. I love the grainy side of it. Fun camera + great photographer = exceptional series V

Kim		14-Jul-2009 09:20
Great series, very film like as you write! V

Liz Bickel		23-Apr-2009 20:00
When I first saw this gallery, I thought that it had been shot with film. Beautiful work. You work magic with a camera in your hands.

alfredo camba jr.		21-Apr-2009 05:15
Very nice and artistic gallery! Beautiful images Sam!! Vote!!

Jeff Real		14-Apr-2009 22:20
Sam, You are putting together a monumental collection here ~V~

Guest		14-Apr-2009 08:59
a beautiful collection, great variety, excellent B&W.

Ali Majdfar		09-Apr-2009 09:40
Outstanding collection, ~V

Jean-Luc Rollier		09-Apr-2009 08:41
Outstanding collection! Really interesting treatment. JL Vote

Guest		09-Apr-2009 04:13
Great collection of images that you did with the Ricoh, Sam. V

James Clarke		08-Apr-2009 04:27
Great tribute to the little Ricoh... Maybe I should try converting some of my high iso Casio shots to B&W and see if it improves them, but I'm sure they don't match the B&W film look you're getting from the GR. +++V

shatterbug		12-Mar-2009 04:52
A convincing argument for the Ricoh...stylish images!

Leland Wong		25-Nov-2008 09:20
man....they've got that new GX200 out and I want it! Someone stop me!

an nguyen		31-Aug-2008 11:53
Your diary is so inspiring that I had to buy the GRD2...

Guest		20-Mar-2008 00:29
Great gallery, and undoubtely one of the very best advocacies I've seen on the web for the GRD. Thanks for sharing !

FrankB		23-Dec-2007 14:03
Sam, a great, moving and, as our friend the incomparable Latifa says, inspiring gallery....V PS this gallery got me doing what I promised myself I wouldn't do at the holidays! LOL

Guest		29-Sep-2007 02:06
This is a great gallery that shows off the virtues of the camera and the great abilities of the photographer. Nice work Sam!

Simon Chandler		28-Sep-2007 06:26
Excellent gallery of artistic images with great emphasis on angle and composition. Great application of the strength of the camera. v

Guest		06-Apr-2007 01:35
Excellent gallery! I've always wanted to try a Ricoh GR Digital. You're right,very film-like!

Manuel Libres Librodo Jr.		31-Mar-2007 17:06
AMAZING. You're are very good in these kinds of shots. Envious. Big Vote!

123		29-Mar-2007 05:45
Woah!!! This is phenomenal ma man. Voted BIG Time!!!

Marc Demoulin		26-Mar-2007 20:21
I like your style here Sam. Very eclectic work but with a great coherency. Keep it up. Voted. Regards. marc

Jose Canovas		16-Mar-2007 18:28
It overflows talent here!

Guest		12-Mar-2007 15:30
I wait for another shoots with your GRD. Great gallerie. Vote.

Leland Wong		26-Dec-2006 22:55
update: i am still drooling at this GR camera. then costco had a $50 rebate on the Lumix DMC-FZ7. just the word Leica and the Elmarit Lens got me. So that is my current street shooter for now. I keep hearing good things about the GR. Wish I could borrow one to give it a spin.

Sam_C		04-Nov-2006 02:54
Leland, it's a great camera, but dynamic range is pretty limited, remember it's got a tiny 1/1.8 sized sensor. But depending on how you work it, you can get some great detail going. Take a look at the 'A-Train' shot, and you can see some good shadow, and highlight details. It was very sunny, but the whites on the train are not blown out, and there's nice shadow detail under the rails. It's a great camera for photojournalism/Cartier-Bresson type images. Let me know what you decide! Best, Sam

Leland Wong		04-Nov-2006 01:54
hey sam...i'm really interested in this camera...how's the dynamic range in this??? i noticed your samples, the detail in the shadow is pretty mashed up or non existent. is it because of the camera? or because your adjust the tones afterwards? or because when you reduced the resolution to post???

Latifa Messaoudi		03-Nov-2006 08:51
very inspirating gallery!

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