RICOH GR - Street vs Urban with Kai and Lok

the RICO gr big camera performance in a compact understated looking body however if you want to use a camera body that makes more of a statement there's options with the gr but these are not any ordinary GRS these are Street and urban and the only reason I can think of them asking us to do this video is because we are just dripping with style exactly of course even if that is true and why not I mean just look at us we're here to talk about our GRS of choice and what's so fantastic about them the GR fre Street Edition and a gr3 x Urban Edition okay enough of the drippy drip drip floss or is that glossiness it's really slippery this kind of clothing like who thought of that and yes we are fully colorcoded look at that okay let's let's do some but yeah so we have got the street and urban mine I think is the street is it we're well prepared for this video yeah yeah this is urban Edition yeah don't know what even he means I thought Street and urban should be similar no it's different street is the you have streets in the Urban Street well you got Street in only in not in urban as well true but Urban is the whole area yes uh I think because when this first came out the street Edition I thought it's for street photography obviously and I think this was supposed to mimic was supposed to mimic it's inspired by Street photographers who are in the element on the Sile pavement uh okay of course that totally makes sense but where where's the yellow come from this is this is more like uh City like oh the the the actually the blue the blue ring is like the a pudle reflecting the sky the Blue Sky it only makes sense of you're in UK though but it's also reflect like the the the neon light in the city now I get it now it makes complete an utter sense well the body color is the same it's the it's the S but this is better well how is it better it look same looks better this this looks better it's the same a different ring the blue is makes sense this is a camera for photographer I mean Street photographer no it's Urban it's for urban photographers they could call it the street 40 mm because that is one of the differences isn't it oh yeah that's true yes Ive so got this is 40 mm yeah that's 28 28 mm and it kind of makes sense because I like the 28 this make more sense 40 for street photography you see you more is more 40 is more than 28 more you get more in the frame more no but you get more in the frame there's no point arguing about whether orange or blue is a better color let the photos do the talking and deciding or orange is a good color yeah Street and urban one is 28 mm the other one's 40 mm usually you go for 35 mm yeah which is not far off yeah it's not far off usually I used to say that I prefer 50 mm over 35 but actually I quite like 28 mm now 3 photography everyone say that oh oh you should use 45 or you should use 50 or street photography white in between yes yeah so it's kind of a blend of both the best of both it's like those breads which have a bit of seed in it and a bit of the white radness in it but this it's just more more more is more it's not less is more more is more and this you get more 28 mm more too much no it's good too wi look at me do I look cool lock the camera is cool it's right if I take [Music] photo look for a apsd size compact camera honestly I had thought about another one after a while I just realized it's just that one it's just a little bit too big it's not big it's not actually huge oh that one yeah but then this one is actually pocketable yeah I don't have a think about when I take it well that's the thing isn't it because some of bigger cameras you're planning to take photos this is for any kind of unplanned planned and unplanned photos yeah well we're kind of agreeing on some things at least as they say the best camera is the one that is the street Edition that didn't last long then it's just it's just too what it's it's so what is more is more it's I've just got so much I don't even know what to do with it it's just too wide look at that to go to you just said it too wide I have to no but that look just right it means I'm ready for any kind of circumstance I can get closer you can't go backwards any further can you no that's why it's not like uh oh it's not the power or something it's just a wheel I need to get closer but when people talk about street cameras and street photography they always think about blacking out the cameras they buy these really expensive brand cameras and then they put black tape all over it just just to make it more stealthy and you know dressing all black street carons don't need to be stealthy do they if in fact if you're dressing in all black like a ninja you're probably going to draw more attention to yourself yeah inject a bit of color into it yeah like like we we are just like two idiot tourists uh one this is lot less intimidating than somebody with tape all over the camera and dress like a ninja isn't it well I guess those are fine it just does it really help to be I don't think so I don't think so oh it's all dark it's all black and people won't recogize me um not recognized won't notice me does it really work that way if you're in the park do you have to get Cam it oh this is when you have a orange and black with a taxi this is a taxi Edition or all the traffic uh yellow yellow Bing see it perect perectly Blends in in the uh Street environment one thing with the 28mm street Edition is that it will force you to get closer to your subject at times get in the scene but the wide angle will mean that you can get shots in tight Street scenarios too it is [Music] yes that's the whole benefit of shooting with a gr you just wonder don't be weighed down with a heavy camera you just wonder about but this most people don't even notice that's the thing well yeah I mean it's the size of a phone isn't it it's smaller than a smaller than a phone oh it's a new iPhone 15 oh by the way I've got a mini though look it's still it's still smaller than a mini one thing is that the 28 mm is that sometimes it can be too much if you want some nice tidy minimalistic framing that it's probably a bit better for that um I have to go back a bit what the 40 mm Urban addition might not be wide enough when the space is tight if you prefer cleaner compositions the field of view means that a lot of extra perhaps unnecessary information is left out besides the 40 mm is pretty much as close as what the human eye sees I quite like the tracking really but look I have been just using tracking even for something that's static the years ago I don't trust any of the tracking what uh multi area whatever I only use one single PN but now I really like just half press on it and then it tra my subject well that's it I'm just using the wide area AF in a minute I'm just letting it pick whatever that's a new one as well that's a wide area but no no wait Center it got the line area in the center when you got the autofocus which is reliable enough you can just use the viewfinder and just let it pick out that it's true yeah yeah and with that you know greater depth of field just makes it a lot easier and saying that I'm using f2.8 at the minute I've put the endd on just so I can go to f2.8 because yeah that's one thing build in ND that's really useful and it's Auto as well oh yeah another thing is that they just called it the adjust manual kind of like a quick menu but you can just customize five feature on the top I only customize four so if you want to adjust focus just press and adjust go away that's quicker than some a lot of other quick menu welcome to London [Music] everyone off that they probably thought that guy's taking a picture of a rare UK bird okay there's I think there's a really popular spot for instagrammers around here oh that that is really everyone knows this spot now it's not secret anymore oh okay I didn't realize there would be so many people I I thought the point is take this Arch yeah I thought that was but but everyone go that go get to the The Edge which you can do it over there well they probably thought uh you know I can get that on on Instagram I mean I was I plan to come here just to show the difference between the 40 mm and 28 mm if you're taking this art shot because I think it might be a bit tight on your 40 isn't it can you get the whole Arch uh look [Music] different I think we should go let's let's let other people have go I mean we live here we don't need to as we've already mentioned they're lightweight and easy to hold so they're really fantastic for handheld shots with slowest shutter [Music] speeds uh doing some slow exposures there yeah I mean you just use modile it's got modile want to TV but you've got the endies to make it darker yeah to make it easier to get up uh slow exposure in body stabilization as well yes I mean with such a small lightweight camera and I keep mentioning that small lightweight I don't want to bang on about it small line weight but it's also handy not just for pocketing but when you're holding it with the stabilization to get that slow shutter speed without the shakes and that's quarter of a second one second no no that's not a quarter 1/4 1/4 quarter this yeah a wow I can't even explain what I was thinking though it seems like it's getting less and less of these kind of compact cameras there's not much to choose from no I mean it's not mainstream and a lots of company would just stop it because it's not bang stream I'm really glad they still keeping this alive but not only that offering in two flavors oh yeah I mean in terms of not the street in urban but the focal lengths two flavors but then you could say different flavors in terms of okay you've got the standard black colored one or the street in urban it just makes a bit more fancy doesn't it pretty much same camera Choice yes exactly the choice is good but with the 28 and 40 I guess the 40 is going to be pretty good for portraits 28 might just sometimes be a bit too much background you can't use it for portraits it's just cop in yeah yeah or you just accept that the portray is going to have more background in it that's um take a portrait you here wide portrait why not bring context to your subject with a little bit of wide angle goodness see if I want to get half body sh I have to get really close here and because there 28 is not too bad a wide angle Distortion the 28 mm while not totally ideal for flattering portraits is versatile you can have it two [Music] ways and you basically camouflage in this I am you I'm sure you won't be able to see me with the 40 mm lens there will be less of that wide angle Distortion so the human forms will look as they should do and let's not forget that you can get shallow depth F filled to isolate your subject from the background [Music] more are some bism architecture somebody hat it I think it's really cool yeah I think it's cool nice complim nicer no it's boring look you look down there it's more like cool color look at that just blue and uh gray yeah okay if you want to be like a four yours look a blue Mommy I say blue then yeah look all look yellow lines similar nobody like yellow lines traffic Wardens is is is is the essence of London to oh you can't park there you can't park here you can't park there no way you can park hold on minute you need to take a photo of me right in between those those walls there right here I think Lock's thinking more about the brutalism than me oh you so far away but anyway with the 14 mm sometimes you really do need to step back more to be far enough to capture all that detail even with 40 mm you can get the enrollment look at the lines oh okay so yes that's nice nice let's take a photo of you I'm like a contast yes like Ikea mum blue steel yeah exactly blue [Music] steel just just go over there go around the corner come around the corner stylishly how how do you go around the corner stylist thing oh no right batteries I've changed batteries oh you got another one yeah yeah I should know lock would have issues with doing things stylishly actually I almost forgot that is another unique feature is the slap Focus yes because I think because the focusing is so good now f s doesn't really need it but then if you are a bit worried about it don't get a shot they actually a pref set Focus distance for example set it to 2.5 m in one go fully press the button it will focus to 2.5 MERS if you're in a tunnel if it's that dark yeah yeah you may worry that it won't focus in time so you just fully press it 2.5 M it's just like when you have manual cam for yeah yeah exactly scale focusing yeah you focus it to 2 m 3 m and you know that it's a pickup click the button and it will be in Focus I'm going to change the black and white you know monotone soft monotone hard monotone high contrast BMW I guess it's kind of like the whole if you do the high contrast BMW is a bit like the Dao mariama look the colors that you get from the RICO gr's images are great but also the in camera black and white options look fantastic too the results are always pleasantly surprising surprising because it comes from the device that fits in the palm of your [Music] hand apart from the color the style of it is still pretty much the same gr isn't it it is the same it's the same thing with a coat on so same thing inside it's really it it doesn't matter you just pick the one which has focal length which best suits your style of Photography and the color yeah of the Ring yeah or you can just change the ring yeah that's some some gr owner likees to do that yeah I mean that's pretty much it isn't it the gr what what else is there to say about gr it pretty much Explains It All We we pretty much explained it all in the first minute I think gr well the purpose of it is small compact fits in your pocket big sensor sensor yeah and it's just and it's got a performance to match almost like enough said enough said with all the features that build for Street photographers yeah or Urban photographers Street photographers in the urban yes that's right it's just a name anyway it's just superficial thing it's just a coat it's a gr and it's great so basically we spent the whole video to come to the the conclusion that you should just pick the coat that you like the most just not the ones we're wearing because they're hideous it's great and right yes you need to put that on the thumbnail like gr great and right

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Length: 18min 30sec (1110 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 26 2023