The Ricoh GR iii is such a wonderful camera. Mine is the non-X version (28mm equivalent). As long as you understand the aperture/distance scale, the snap focus feature is unbeatable.

Sometimes I just walk around and shoot blindly, no composing with lcd, no stopping. Just tikam shoot with movement and blur or whatever. 99% or shots are trashed, but the remaining 1% are usually awesome.

I hope Ricoh continues making these cameras, even in a smartphone world. Their only downside is lack of weather sealing and lousy battery life. Other than that, best camera I’ve used, and I’ve owned much higher spec cameras in the past.

Let’s not forget the gorgeous High Contrast B&W jpeg setting. I know it’s considered a bit hipster, but in our Malaysian environment (strong sun = strong shadows) it feels so right.

Also, for someone like me who uses an iPad most of the time without an Adobe CC subscription, the DNG files give very consistent output across different editors if I want to play with RAW files. No need to worry about Lightroom vs Capture 1 vs whatever.