Outer dial : shots remainingLeft : White balance
Right : Picture quality
Bottom : Battery level
Nice use of space :)
EV compensation
Shutter speed
ISO
Cable release
Shutter button
Well I thought Id write a bit on stuff that make me want to buy a camera. My first expectation is feel and build quality. A plastic feel camera just feels bad. A nice black metal finish that looks industrial as oppose to brushed aluminium or shiny metal finish. A hand grip, preferably leather but this seems to be virtually impossible to find these days but a good soft rubber can do. Oh and the hand grip has to be proper and fat. none of these fancy so called hang rips that can be seen on a few new compact cameras recently. Physical controls that are visible on the camera even off. I think the RD1 has a fantastic layout of controls and at 1 glance i can check everything. Small and discreet and finally have interchangeable lenses. I would add pocket able but the RD1 fails miserably at this.
The GRD i feel has many of the qualities of the RD1 and many many qualities of its own. They share the same finish and build precision and both are very comfortable to use. The GRD fits in the pocket where the RD1 doesn't. The controls on the GRD are also superb because of the simplicity and the dual wheel, click wheel on the front allows you to set and view settings within seconds. I'm curious weather certain physical elements similar to the RD1 should be used with the next GR camera or not.
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Beside decent build and well thought-through controls I like an customizable Auto-ISO feature so that when light conditions change slightly I do not have to change ISO and miss a shot.
Hi Marco,
In a way i'd like that too. The GRD2 has this feature but i'm a bit confused how it makes it's decision. Does it prioritize shutter speed or image quality? Because of this I don't use it because i'd rather take my shot at the highest possible shutter speed and trade of quality depending on the situation. Perhaps a solution is to have 2 options on this setting : pri-quality, pri-speed... not sure. All in all i would want this setting as a physical dial :)
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