Originally posted by ruggiex I wouldn't mind it if it's just small movement. Mine was good 15-20 degrees turn which made me question the longevity. I don't really want to test it out for multiple days and risk damaging the unit some how (dropping it, getting stuff on it etc) and end up not being able to return/exchange the unit. I played with it enough for the day I had it to know that I want to add this to my travel bag anyway, so I might as well try to get a better unit.
Wow, I'm so sorry to hear that it could be such a huge play and that it happened to you. Animated gif in the OP's post is like 5 degrees, which might bother some or maybe many, but yours is 3 to 4 times worse, that should be a defect for any reasonable person.
I don't own GRIII and probably won't, but if I do buy an affected unit that is not as bad as ruggiex's case, I would still send it back anyway even if it doesn't bother me that much (but it might be a bother after all, it's hard to tell without paying real money
). My line of thinking is that Ricoh thinks that 5 degrees or 3 or whatever is not up to the high standard they have, and they're ready to fix it for a range of S/N, they say please give us a chance to rectify, so give them that chance.