RICOH GR II Digital Camera with 3-Inch LCD, Black

Most Helpful Review

"Overall a great little camera with a nice sharp prime lens. I am a semi-professional photographer and I have had this camera for about a year and a half. I take this camera every where due to it being lightweight and compact. The images are superb. The ability to compile star trails in camera is really nice. Newspapers are happy to accept photos taken with this camera. This camera is great for discreet street shooting too.The cons: Sensor has dirt on it that can not be cleaned. One piece of dirt is quite large and really interferes with my shooting panaramas to stitch together in post. The entire camera would have to be disassembled in order to clean the sensor, this is a fatal flaw. The "wifi" is a joke, don't buy this for the "wifi". The lens only stops down to f/16 so shooting long exposure water scenes during the day is often impossible. The built in nuetral density filter does not help much at all. The autofucus is too slow for any kind of action shot, even just my dog drinking from a puddle is often too much action for this camera. Camera does not handle low light very well, the ISO noise is quite high at even lower levels.I love this camera for hiking, but sadly I am looking for something else due to the large peice of dirt on the sensor that can be difficult to edit out even in ACR. I'm going back to paking my DSLR for hiking because it has a clean image sensor.The first one I bought had a issue with white balance and I got it replaced easy enough. The camera was sold as new but it had someone elses copyright info in it. I contacted the previous owner, he said he had returned the camera. Too bad that Ricoh sold me a defective returned unit as new!Update I took the camera apart and cleaned the image sensor. The sensor is clean now. The problem though is that most of the dirt was actually inside the lens! The sensor was fairly clean. I don't know how to take the lens apart to clean it."