This is from a street in Oxford, UK. Taken with the Ricoh GR-D. This is an old Victorian footscraper.
I am off to Greece tomorrow for two weeks. I was going to take the Canon 5D, but do not want to risk sending it in with the main luggage which is all that is allowed after the terrorist scare a couple of days ago. No hand luggage allowed!
I am going to risk sending the GRD through and a 35mm film camera in a separate case. Fingers crossed it will be OK...
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Monday, August 07, 2006
Saturday, August 05, 2006
Ricoh's PR department
One occasionally hears hints of the rather poor PR and marketing of Ricoh cameras and equipment. It is almost as if they don't care. It is certainly true that the GR Digital website has pretty poor images with which to judge the camera from what I recall.
Today the Financial Times 'How to spend it' magazine has a short review of the GR Digital by Jonathan Margolis. The interesting point raised by the reviewer (who loves the camera) were the incredible difficulties put in the way by Ricoh themselves. The reviewer states that Ricoh would not hand over a camera for review (and that this was the first time in twenty years that this has happened to the reviewer).
Apparently the Ricoh British office did everything they could to prevent the reviewer featuring the camera:
Quote: They refused to provide a sample and even had their PR lady make a phone call in which she said that I was "the kind of person who makes [her] life difficult." Asked to intervene, their UK sales manager, a Mr Wingent, backed her up.
Mr Margolis got hold of one anyway. He praises the camera as follows:
It's built for grown ups who love taking great photos
The controls are instinctive to the point of genius
The photos it produces are stunning
Its looks are defiantly understated
He urges readers to buy the camera and concludes: "And do enjoy the fact that your order will inconvenience the bizarre crew at Ricoh UK".
Today the Financial Times 'How to spend it' magazine has a short review of the GR Digital by Jonathan Margolis. The interesting point raised by the reviewer (who loves the camera) were the incredible difficulties put in the way by Ricoh themselves. The reviewer states that Ricoh would not hand over a camera for review (and that this was the first time in twenty years that this has happened to the reviewer).
Apparently the Ricoh British office did everything they could to prevent the reviewer featuring the camera:
Quote: They refused to provide a sample and even had their PR lady make a phone call in which she said that I was "the kind of person who makes [her] life difficult." Asked to intervene, their UK sales manager, a Mr Wingent, backed her up.
Mr Margolis got hold of one anyway. He praises the camera as follows:
It's built for grown ups who love taking great photos
The controls are instinctive to the point of genius
The photos it produces are stunning
Its looks are defiantly understated
He urges readers to buy the camera and concludes: "And do enjoy the fact that your order will inconvenience the bizarre crew at Ricoh UK".
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