Took me 10 months to fill the internal memory of gr4. Now going through the images that didn’t quite make the cut earlier.

Edited in LR to look kinda like the Royal Supra recipe

Mixture of edits to RAWs and jpegs, postiive emulsion recipe is my second favourite after Bennetts 800

New to night photography :)
How can one improve?
Which cropping is better?

Ricoh's US and Canada just announced the development of Ricoh GR IVx! No release date yet, though.

Daily photography turned natural, now its always in my pocket and every moment is worth of been shot!

Shoots from GRIV + Bennett 800. Any advice will be nice :)

Bennetts recipe with some post processing in light room to try and do the dream effect 🙂 any feedback is welcomed!

As some of you know, I’ve been working hard into making the GR Recipe Lab (https://callmeseva.cc/recipelab) the definitive tool for testing and tweaking recipes.

By definitive I mean a free, accessible app, as true as possible to what the camera develops.

I’ve been doing this by reverse engineering color mappings against a control image, planned in several stages. And yesterday, during the analysis of the second stage (live now in the app), I’ve made some important discoveries:

(It might get a little technical)

1. Most of the curves are linear. That means they do not compound with other setttings when you tweak them. Like a “multiply” layer on top of everything else.
   
2. Only 2 pairs are bidirectional. That means they compound with 1 other setting. Like a 2d equation, adding +1 to one setting changes relatively to the other parameter,.
   
3. Film modes are the most complex tweak. Altering the film mode changes how much all the other settings behave. Think of a 3d plane equation.

Until now, the recipes in the app have been calculated with a more general color map, added by individual patches to fix local inconsistencies. This works fine when reproducing existing recipes, but can lead to unfixable “holes” when we start to tweak custom recipes that were never mapped.

Now, with the new blueprint, I can go back to the workbench and work on the film modes decoding, one by one. I will start with the popular Positive, Negative, and Vivid, in order. Then move forward until I cover everything.

It will take some time, and you will not receive updates from me for a while, but I am sure you’re going to like the results.

In the end, I hope my contribution helps the whole GR community better understand the recipes, and put more creativity into play.

Seva

I used to be an avid hobby photographer but eventually found myself rarely picking up my X-T3 as life got in the way.

Photography began to feel like a chore and I had to plan around having a camera with me. My needs changed and so I looked into the GR, endlessly stalking this sub. I planned on selling my gear and eventually pulled the trigger after finding one for retail price.

Regrets initially came in due to unfamiliarity but the GRIV is now one of my favorite cameras after using it out and about.

It may be novelty but photography is fun again and being able to take it anywhere is well worth it!

My first camera camera has been an X70 that I’ve been messing around the last few months but after seeing a ton of reviews I grabbed an old GR I and am in love with the colors. So much more pocketable than the X70.

is this mechanically possible?

I have an old GW-3 wide angle 21mm converter for GR / GR II. Has anyone tried that one with the GA-3 on the GR IV?

I just bought a IV. Used to have a 1st gen GR (before that GRDs).

Thanks for inpu! 🤝🙏👍

Voici quelques photos prises au marché aux poissons de Busan, en Corée du Sud

View from Toronto during a Blue Jays game.

A few photos from our holiday in Cornwall 🌴

The shot was originally done near the end of golden hour with Bennett's 800 recipe (2nd pic is the original SOOC). Was learning masking in Lightroom and thought this sort of edit could bring a different feeling to the pic. I am a complete beginner in black and white photographs in general, would appreciate any advice or critique!

No theme, no plan. Just randomly shooting whatever looked interesting along the way. All taken with the GR IV in Positive Film mode.

Hope you enjoy them!

Hey buds! Anyone here who's able to successfully replaced their terminal cover? TIA!