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05-09-2021, 10:00 PM - 1 Like   #1066
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QuoteOriginally posted by aaacb Quote
For construction, it's a magnesium body and it is well made, it feels "dense" being so compact. I've also had mine since it was launched. Used it daily on commutes for the first year, now a few times a week. It's a robust camera, certainly the best built compact I've used. I had the rotating dial on the back fixed because it was skipping after 1.5 years. I believe it was unrelated to the wobbly dial thing that affected early cameras (mine is one of them though). Then again, mode dials sometimes fail on Pentax DSLRs, as it failed on my k3ii after just 13 months of ownership.

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I had my first GRIII rear dial fail too, right inside of the second year of warranty that I had (one year manufacturer plus using purchase protection offered by my Visa card extended it a year further). I had early model wobbly dial fixed, since my camera was one of the first in the US shipped from Amazon. But the skipping rear dial seems unrelated, however it is a rather large problem if you don't have warranty coverage and it happens. Precision Camera is not cheap when doing out-of-warranty repairs. In my case I sent the camera to Precision to be invoiced, and they asked for enough for the repair that I just got Visa to reimburse it, bought a new one, and sold that one at a large discount while noting the back dial issue. If you want to you can get around using the rear dial more or less at all.

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Love the colors and tones in these!
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Love the colors and tones in these!
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I have similarly found that blue hour and dim natural light is represented particularly well by the GRIII sensor.







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is represented particularly well by the GRIII sensor.
it's interesting by every camera, frankly speaking.
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That's true, as long as judicious exposure is used! The GRIII handles things well even up to a rather high ISO without muting the colors or any unrecoverable shadows.
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How hard would it be to make the GRIII weather sealed? (Genuine question: would it necessarily have to become that much bigger?)
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not pocketable anymore,because no more retractable lens (something like fuji x100v)
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I use the GA-1 adapter and a 49mm uv filter when there's only a few drops of rain. For example, if there's light rain and I'm walking with an umbrella. It's not water resistant by any means, but it does prevent the lens from bringing water into the camera when retracting if there are a couple of drops.
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QuoteOriginally posted by Smolk Quote
How hard would it be to make the GRIII weather sealed? (Genuine question: would it necessarily have to become that much bigger?)
I honestly have no idea. It'd be nice if they would at least engineer one to see what it would be like. I wonder if there couldn't be some sort of membrane put in place in the telescoping lens.
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