December 9, 2008 at 11:31 pm · Filed under Photography
My second Ricoh is actually a bit special as it’s a brand new one from Calumet Photo’s eBay shop – I’m guessing it’s a NOS example as the outer sleeve to the box was a bit scuffed and mussed but everything underneath was in perfect untouched condition. I managed to snap up one of the 3 remaining GRDs (at the time of writing they have just one left!) for £260, which might sound like a lot of money for a camera released in 2005, but as we shall see, there is method behind the madness…
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December 6, 2008 at 6:18 pm · Filed under Photography
A strong sense of deja vu pervades as I sit here writing about the arrival of my Ricoh GRD; it might have something to do with me buying a GRD back in January of this year and describing my elation when it was delivered… and then writing about it’s departure in March. You will be pleased to hear, however, that I have a list of excuses as long as my arm about why I sold my old Ricoh in the first place (You can even see some of those excuses paraded around in the second post when I waved it goodbye) and why it was actually a good thing that I did and how I am now stupendously better off because of it.
This is going to be good…
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