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Ricoh GR IIIx HDF Compact Camera
The Ricoh GR IIIx HDF Compact Camera adds the ability to capture beautiful mellow images with diffused highlights by activating a filter with a single click, while retaining the sharp and bright 40mm lens.
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- Excellent alternative to the regular GR IIIx with the same lens, sensor and processor, adding a new filter effect
- Extends versatility with one-tap Highlight Diffusion Filter, which creates beautiful images, with diffused highlight areas
- Lightweight and portable point-and-shoot camera, which is perfect for street photography, travel and everyday shooting
- Effective built-in body stabilisation, excellent low light performance and bright f/2.8 lens for various scenarios
- HDF camera features a unique shutter button colour and the ability to store three white balance presets, plus other additions
Ricoh GR IIIx HDF Compact Camera Summary
The Ricoh GR IIIx HDF Compact Camera adds the ability to capture mellow images with diffused highlight areas and create a blurred effect along the image’s edges.
This one-button filter effect joins a minor design update, as the colour of the shutter-release button has been changed to greyish silver, symbolising the easy shift of visual expression. Additionally, users gain the ability to pre-program up to three white balance settings, and customise the Fn button – which is set to activate the Highlight Diffusion Filter.
This compact Ricoh camera also sees the addition of Zone Select AF, and aside from these updates and the availability of ND filters, the Ricoh GR III HDF is identical to the popular Ricoh GR IIIx Compact Camera. It features a 24 megapixel APS-C format sensor, powerful image processor and bright 40mm equivalent wide angle lens, while remaining compact and portable for everyday shooting with ease.
Highlights include the face/eye AF detection, 14-bit RAW image recording, a built-in ND filter as well as the removal of the AA filter, for even sharper results.
Key Ricoh GR IIIx HDF Features
- Highlight Diffusion Filter *New
- New greyish silver shutter release button *New
- Ability to customise Fn button *New
- Save three custom white balance settings *New
- Zone Select AF *New
- 24.24 effective megapixel APS-C format CMOS sensor
- Built-in ND (Neutral Density) filter with 2 stops
- GR ENGINE 6 imaging engine
- 14-bit RAW image recording
- Hybrid AF system with Face/Eye detection
- 3.0-inch Touch-screen rear LCD
- RICOH-original SR - 3-axis, 4-step shake reduction (4-stops)
- AA filter removed (anti-aliasing), with AA filter simulator to remove moiré
- Rigid magnesium alloy body
- Full HD movie recording
Ricoh GR IIIx HDF Compact Camera in More Detail
Effortlessly switch to the built-in HDF for soft, mellow images, by using the Fn button. The Highlight Diffusion Filter (HDF) enhances highlights and achieves a gentle, softened effect in your images. Utilising Ricoh's advanced printing technology, this filter diffuses highlights and adds a blurred edge effect, reminiscent of nostalgic film or cinematic imagery.
With the HDF's single-action toggle, users can seamlessly switch between two distinct visual styles – the trademark sharpness of the Ricoh GR series, and the soft, mellow tones achieved with the new HDF. This flexibility enhances your creative expression, and pushes the boundaries of everyday snapshot photography. You can also select the Ricoh GR III HDF, which includes an equivalent 28mm wide angle lens, rather than the standard 40mm equivalent in the GR IIIx.
Other HDF camera features
The shutter-release button now sports a greyish silver hue, reflecting the seamless transition between visual expressions. Additionally, the Fn button defaults to toggling the HDF on/off, but users can opt for another function as well.
Users can preset up to three white-balance settings as the base white balance and fine-tune them with the White-balance Fine Adjustment function. Additionally, the camera introduces Zone Select AF, aligning focus with the desired zone after shifting the 3x3 focus area. This area matches the size of Auto-area AF (Centre) mode.
High-resolution GR lens
The heart of this premium compact camera lies in the newly developed 26.1mm f/2.8 GR lens, which provides a more natural field of view at 40mm equivalent in full frame format. This captures high definition scenes without the distortion associated with wide-angle lenses and enables you to shoot as close as 12cm to your subject for macro-shooting.
The optical design incorporates two aspherical optical elements to reduce distortion and keep chromatic aberration to a minimum, while effectively minimising flare and ghosting when shooting backlight subjects.
A built-in ND (Neutral Density) filter closes the aperture down by 2-stops to capture high-contrast, high-resolution images with a variety of scenes and subjects and under varying shooting conditions. The inclusion of a 9-bladed aperture creates natural bokeh (defocus) effects with smooth out of focus areas and pleasing shallow depth of field.
High-resolution images
The updated camera includes a large APS-C format CMOS sensor with the anti-aliasing (AA) filter removed, and the GR ENGINE 6 imaging engine. This combination provides high resolution 24.24MP images at the best possible quality.
You can record images in 14-bit RAW for a wider dynamic range and enhanced editing options, and the accelerator unit has been designed to optimise image data providing ISO 102400 for super-high-sensitivity photography.
Hybrid AF system
For faster than ever focusing capabilities the RICOH GR IIIx includes a hybrid AF system combining a contrast-type AF mechanism superior in focusing precision with a phase-detection-type AF. Ricoh has added Face and Eye detection with excellent results that are selectable in the touch-screen LCD.
RICOH SR mechanism (shake reduction)
A 3-axis 4-stop mechanism is built-in to compensate for camera shake. This effective pitch, yaw and roll control shifts the image sensor and also helps keep horizons level using Auto Horizon Correction.
Sample: Photographer: Wolfgang Baus GR IIIx HDF // Manual // 1/1,600 sec // f5.6 // ISO 200 // BW High Contrast // HDF on
Compact, lightweight design
Despite packing in a host of new features and new lens, the GR IIIx is extremely compact and portable, weighing just 262g with battery and card and measuring 109.4 (W) x 61.9 (H) x 35.2(D)mm.
The compact size means you can take it anywhere but it still brings user-friendly features including a fast start-up time (0.8 sec.), control dials and easy to operate touchscreen. A robust exterior frame is made from highly rigid magnesium alloy for long term durability.
HD touchscreen LCD
The GR IIIx features a 3.0-inch high-definition LCD monitor with approximately 1,037,000 dots with intuitive operation to control AF frame shift, menu selection and image advance/magnification during playback. A protective cover made of reinforced glass effectively reduces reflections for improved visibility and there’s an outdoor setting to adjust monitor brightness.
Image Control function
You can take creative control directly in the camera with 11 basic Image Control modes including saturation, hue, key, contrast and graininess. These can also be assigned to a custom setting for quick workflows.
Sample: Photographer: Yukio Uchida / GR III HDF / Highlight Diffusion Filter on/off
Advanced image editing
For those who run and gun and want to share their images immediately the RICOH GR IIIx includes in-camera RAW editing. The camera also provides such creative tools as a choice of aspect ratio (16:9 or 4:3) and image rotation in 0.1-degree steps to facilitate the image editing process.
Bluetooth and wireless LAN
Wireless LAN provides easy pairing with mobile devices to transfer images, display a Live-View image and control the camera remotely using Ricoh’s Image Sync application. You’ll also get GPS data embedded from the mobile and Auto resizing for quick image transfers.
Other features
- Full HD movie recording (1920 x 1080 pixels, 60 frame rate) in H-264 format
- New DOF Priority (Deep) to prioritise a closed aperture setting
- Colour Moire Correction function to reduce the effect of moiré during playback
- Interval Composite mode, effective in capturing landscapes with traces of the moon and stars
- Electronic Level to check the camera’s inclination
- GT-2 Tele Conversion Lens (optional)** to extend the focal length to approx. 75mm telephoto in the 35mm format, usable in combination with the camera’s auto detection and crop functions
- Compatibility with accessory flash units designed for use with PENTAX digital SLR cameras***
Sample 01: Photographer: Yukio Uchida / GR III HDF / Highlight Diffusion Filter on/off
Sample 02: Photographer: Wolfgang Baus GR IIIx HDF // Manual // 1/1,600 sec // f5.6 // ISO 200 // BW High Contrast // HDF on
What’s in the box
- Ricoh GR IIIx HDF Compact Camera
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AE Bracketing: N/A |
Autofocus Modes: N/A |
Articulated Screen: N/A |
Aperture priority: Yes |
Battery: N/A |
Built-in flash: N/A |
Battery Life (CIPA): 200 |
Camera CIPA image stabilization rating: N/A |
Colour: N/A |
Continuous drive (fps): N/A |
Custom white balance: Yes |
Digital zoom: N/A |
Effective pixels (megapixels): 24 |
Environmental Sealing: N/A |
Exposure compensation: N/A |
External flash: Yes |
Flash range (metres): N/A |
Focal length (equiv.): 40 mm |
Focal length multiplier: N/A |
Flash modes: N/A |
GPS: N/A |
HDMI Port: N/A |
Headphone port: N/A |
Height (mm): 62 |
Length (mm): N/A |
Width (mm): 109 |
Weight (g): N/A |
Weight (inc. batteries) (g): 262 |
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Camera Image stabilization: N/A |
ISO: Auto, 100 - 102400 |
JPEG quality levels: N/A |
Live view: Yes |
Camera Lens mount: N/A |
Manual exposure mode: Yes |
Maximum shutter speed (electronic): N/A |
Maximum ISO: 102400 |
Maximum ISO (boosted): N/A |
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Maximum shutter speed (seconds): N/A |
Maximum aperture: N/A |
Manual focus: Yes |
Microphone: N/A |
Microphone port: N/A |
Camera Minimum focus distance (cm): 20 |
Minimum ISO: 100 |
Minimum ISO (boosted): N/A |
Minimum macro focus distance (cm): 12 |
Minimum shutter speed (seconds): N/A |
Metering modes: N/A |
Number of focus points: N/A |
Number of white balance presets: 8 |
Optical zoom multiplier: N/A |
Orientation sensor: Yes |
Other resolutions: N/A |
Processor: GR Engine 6 |
Remote control: N/A |
Screen dots: 1037000 |
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Self-timer: Yes |
Shutter priority: Yes |
Speaker: N/A |
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Subject / scene modes: N/A |
Timelapse recording: Yes |
Touchscreen: Yes |
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Uncompressed format: N/A |
Camera USB: N/A |
USB charging: Yes |
Viewfinder coverage: N/A |
Viewfinder magnification: N/A |
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Video formats: N/A |
Video Mode Categories: N/A |
Video Modes: N/A |
WB Bracketing: N/A |
Wireless: N/A |
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Condition guide
Our used products are subject to wear and tear in comparison to brand new products. This also applies to accessories that are supplied with the camera including batteries which may have a lower optimum performance level/life expectancy.
- Like New – The equipment is in a condition as if you have just bought it from the manufacturer. The item is still considered to be ‘Like New’ even without the original packaging and accessories. The product has been fully tested and is in perfect working order. Lenses are optically clear. There may be light dust present that will not effect the imagery.
- Excellent – The equipment should be close to being ‘Like New’ but there may be some small cosmetic blemishes that lower its grade. The product has been fully tested and is in perfect excellent order.
- Cameras – Should have no marks on the LCD screen
- Lenses – Should have no marks on the elements and optically clear. There may be light dust present that will not effect the imagery.
- Very Good – The equipment may have some slight cosmetic wear to the paintwork and cosmetic blemishes with only light signs of use and the product has been fully tested and is in great working order.
- Cameras – The LCD screen may have small signs of wear that does not affect its display
- Lenses – The mount of the lens will start to show signs of wear
- Good – The equipment is showing more obvious signs of cosmetic wear and blemishes, but the product has been fully tested and is in great working order.
- Cameras – LCD screen may have scratches or wear that is starting to affect the display.
- Lenses – May have slight dust inside that does not affect images. The mount shows signs of use.
- Well Used – The equipment will show significant signs of wear. The paintwork will be coming away in large areas exposing the metal work, but the product has been fully tested and is in great working order.
- Cameras – LCD screen is heavily worn either by de-lamination or has scratches to it. Rubber grips are starting to come away from the body.
- Lenses – The lens has dust inside that may affect images. The rubber zoom/focus ring is coming away from the barrel of the lens.
*All of our used items are listed with the accessories that are included. If they are not listed, then they will not be supplied at the point of purchase.
Peace of mind with our 6 month warranty
This product has been thoroughly tested by our team of photographers and we are happy to give a 6 month warranty as a result. The number of tests depends on the individual product but we are confident in this product having tested all the major functions. Anything that isn’t as you would expect, we then make a note of and show this in the condition notes on the page.
So you can be confident you are buying a great piece of kit that’s been looked after by a fellow photographer and seen many extraordinary sights, tested by our team of photographers and now looking forward to being set free to capture more great images!