{"id":12297,"date":"2014-09-10T18:36:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T01:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=12297"},"modified":"2014-09-10T18:36:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T01:36:02","slug":"ricoh-r1-in-niagara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=12297","title":{"rendered":"Ricoh R1 in Niagara"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I didn’t end up finishing the roll of film in my Ricoh\u00a0R1\u00a0so it did go through the security check at the airport and seems to have survived\u00a0none the worse for all the radiation.\u00a0 As I’ve said before the Ricoh\u00a0R1 <\/a>has an incredibly sharp lens particularly in the center when set to 30mm not the 24mm\u00a0wide angle\u00a0seen\u00a0in the picture above.\u00a0 It’s also\u00a0small and pocketable.\u00a0 As it is one of the direct forerunners of the latest Ricoh\u00a0GR digital camera its making me take a serious look at that camera too.\u00a0 We have reached a point in digital photography where there are many great cameras to choose from with each one having certain advantages that set them apart but they are for the most part all yielding\u00a0quality images.\u00a0 So what would be the reason to use the R1\u00a0with film over buying a Ricoh\u00a0GR?\u00a0 Well at around $800\u00a0for the GR that works out to around 80 rolls of film developed or 2880 frames so\u00a0clearly\u00a0in the long run digital would be an advantage but I’m not really likely to want to use this camera exclusively and 2880 frames might take me 5 years to shoot\u00a0in that manner.\u00a0\u00a0 You can see my dilemma, wanting something and needing it are two different things entirely.<\/p>\n\n\t\t