Originally posted by Frater But the O-GPS1 as part of a kit would have been nicer than loosing the Flash IMO. The O-GPS1 is small, light, looks good, almost sexy when mounted, a nice eye catcher making others curious or jealous, and is much more compact than a bulky external system flash unit.
The built-in GPS, on the other hand, shares most likely the tiny and cheapo design used as mass products in smartphones. Someone with higher sensitivity and reliability demands in the wilderness will need to have a proper unit anyway, e.g. from Garmin.
Another good idea comes into my mind. What if Ricoh could mitigate the flash loss issue by inventing a tiny foldeable flash unit, not bigger than the external GPS unit (but extractable to gain height). Maybe with a few super-bright white LEDs, if this helps keeping things tiny?
Come on. Lass die Kirche im Dorf. Keep the church in the village (German phrase), means, keep some sanity...
What do you think could be a target group of a camera with this profile? Someone wanting to spend a lot of time outdoor with a camera which helps him to keep track of his phototours, even allows him to filter and sort his entire photocollection by coutry, location, site and helps him to find photos of a certain area by drawing a polygon on a map? Which is done with an integrated solution that collects the standpoint, the direction, the focal length, the focus distance. This is a highly professional tool and this information can by no means be collected additionally in any convenient way. But this is probably not what a cat and kids photographer would be looking for, alright.
But I agree, bring a small foldable flash, and this discussion is finished fast. Like this:
Tested: Olympus RC flash system vs. Nikon CLS | Lighting Rumours
And before we don't know all details officialy chances are high that all this moaning and argueing will just expose some people in a bad light in the end, but this is not my problem.