Yes indeed. I have the older Fuji X-20(not XF) and the GRII, love both. But the X-20 is heavier, on-off is by turning the lens,not a switch as the GRII. But actually i like analogue photography more.. But of course you can't see the photo's immediately. And development is "expensive" ; black and white is more expensive to develop than color, strange but true.

@@wordwarrior2350 filming for me is just fun. My career is in aviation :) - cheers´

I wonder how much slower from the Xt-1. If it's the same I can definitely live with it, I don't want to pull the trigger if the x70 upgrade will be out this year, if not, I'm buying the x70 on eBay.

@@HilarioGalan AF in XT1 is much faster from XF10. There is no comparison trust me. The X70 is discontinued, no hope for an X80.

Those cheap auto lens covers are the first thing to break.

Its the new "two cameras and two lenses" philosophy that we all had been waiting for as an upgrade to the more old fashioned idea.

Ricoh fanboys.

Nah, it is the Ricoh fanboys rising up. I have owned both....get the Fuji for better image quality.

For the record, there should be NO COMPARISON between the AF of GR II (9 points of contrast detect AF) and XF-10 (91 points of phase detect AF). If Eric isn't seeing (or acknowledging) the difference, then I have to believe he doesn't really know how to configure and use Fuji AF, which is not such an unreasonable conclusion from someone with a career of mostly using snap focus and Leicas. Look at all the sports cameras with industry leading AF. They DON"T USE contrast detect. They use phase detect AF.

I've never seen another camera that could shoot at a specific focal distance without changing the dials or menus if you're shooting in an AF mode, or at least I've never learned how. How do you do it?

@@jonmatle The technique which predates the GR II snap focus innovation, is to put camera in manual mode, set aperture to f/8 or f/11 (f/16 if you don't mind diffraction), the shutter speed to whatever freezes motion for your circumstances (I use 1/640th), these days set the ISO to auto, pre-focus to a specific distance (looked up once on the hyperfocal table for the lens and for the aperture, google "dofmaster") and that's it. You can shoot all afternoon that way, just point the camera in any direction, and if you have set up everything just right, you might have everything between 1m and infinity in acceptable focus. I love doing this and have done so on 3 different systems now. What I love is taking focus accuracy and lag out of the equation entirely. The camera becomes a light box that instantly "snaps" anything in its field of view with amazing depth of field. On FF a 28mm and wider lens is recommended, and on APS-C, an 18mm and wider lens is recommended, so that the depths of field start at 1m for reasonable apertures.

For a 5+ years old sensor on GRii (yes, its sensor was carry from GR, which is released somewhere 2013), its autofocusing capability is not too bad, especially consider it is not a high end model like Sony RX1Rii, which using A7Rii's sensor. I found out sometimes the autofocus was done while I composing, so, I consider it is not a big deal.

@@therealsergio Oh, but that's not what snap focus does. That's just setting manual settings for street. I have both the Ricoh and the Fuji X70 so I don't think I'm overly biased. You can change between modes on the Fuji to accomplish the same thing (the CAM switch on the front), but you can't accomplish the same thing without changing focus modes on anything other than the Ricoh that I've found.

*(a little) more. Everybody just keep their pants on.

No, it’s no ok

Daniele Parini could you clarify your comment, in what way is not?

Mac Jim the feature we love the most about the GR II is Snap Focus, which is similar to zone focusing on a manual focus lens. You can set the autofocus to a specific focus distance (1m, 1.5m, 2m, 2.5m, 5m or infinity) and the camera will tell you how deep your depth of field is depending on the aperture you select. Fujifilm added a similar feature to the XF10 called Snapshot: you can choose between 1m and f/8 or 5m and f/5.6.

Daniele Parini okay, thank you for that extra information... appreciated

@@macjim actually you can do that with any camera. Manual focus, 2m f8. Done.

The "P" mode can be acceptable in certain situations; I agree SR+ mode has not done much for me other than teach me that I needed to learn everything else. I'm glad I learned my way around the camera too, because yo can change things VERY fast using the touch screen and all. Snapshot mode is good because one swipes gets you there instantly. I like having a max ISO setting and MIN shutter speed all ready to go.

I’m waiting for a pancake 17mm EOS-M lens.

Haha Eric Kim is rich! He reminds us all the time.

@Coni Glione i have a GR II since 2 years. A newcomer comes here and the suggestion is take both?

@Geetist are you Kim's lawyer or just a fanboy? Critics are fair when you go public.

It's about making money now. Sad.

Yes but will cost double the price too. Rumors say near 1000euros.

they got rid of the flash on the grIII im so bummed

@@ogmike6444 why is everybody talking about that horrible flash that was on the GRII I don't get it ? If you need a flash then get a real one :)

The III is out and your prediction is a fail.

justyjust get the huawei with a 28mm summilux!!

@@AndresRuiz-gs8vmcheers for the advice I just brought a moment case for my OnePlus 6 and a sirus 60mm lens works great for getting that little bit closer. It will be my Ricoh GR ii side kick. 😉