Trip to Australia - May 2026 on GR IIIx
I’ve been really curious to try out shooting with a Ricoh camera after seeing all the hype and being a minimalist and a photography enthusiast, it seemed to be the perfect size and quality. I ended up renting it for the week while I traveled to Sydney. Overall, I absolutely loved it; it felt so easy to snap photos and I loved the recipes you can set like a Fujifilm camera. It genuinely made shooting photos fun. I had recently sold my Sony a6300, and the last trip I shot with that camera, it felt like too much. This was just the perfect amount of fun and control for me. I was really happy with the way the photos came out, and the app made importing the images into my phone a breeze. The battery life wasn’t great, but it still lasted me the whole day on most days, if not a little more, so it’s acceptable in my book. It’s a little slow for people used to other mirrorless cameras and doesn’t have all the features of other cameras you might use, but for the size, the compromise isn’t too bad. I did miss having a viewfinder though; I found myself putting my eye up to the camera on instinct, then realizing, “Oh wait, what am I doing!?” Overall, I’d love to use this camera again. Not sure if I’d pay full price for it, but maybe I’d rent it for another trip!