Meeting Ricoh Imaging Japan! (GRIII & Showroom)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ม.ค. 2025
- I visited the Showrooms of Ricoh Japan and got an exclusive look into the design process of the Ricoh GRIII!
UPDATE: The Showroom in Ginza is closing and will be moved over to the showroom in Shinjuku! Ricoh Imaging Square Shinjuku is now the main showroom in Tokyo.
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UPDATE: The Showroom in Ginza is closing and will be moved over to the showroom in Shinjuku! Ricoh Imaging Square Shinjuku is now the main showroom in Tokyo.
They closed toooooooooo
Is it possible to buy a ricoh camera from there ?
What a gracious host. Big up to Ricoh.
As a fuji shooter, this little jem gets me way more excited than any new Sony super mega awesome god killer camera or any medium format work horse! Just pure photography, amazing little creation!
Extremely underrated photo channel.
Thanks again Samuel. Very courteous of Ricoh to do that. I loved the showroom, and it took me back to some of the enthusiast showrooms big Japanese tech companies used to have near Akihabara back in the 80's and 90's where you could interact with company reps, play with the latest gadgets and glimpse upcoming advancements. Damm, I love and miss Japan!
Very nice and interesting this visit to Ricoh Tower .Thanks so much Samuel. I hope have GR III “especial street edition” in the next month.
That was a charming insight into Ricoh.
Absolutely fascinating!!
Thank you for the inside look of one of my all time favourite street photography cameras!😀👍
Wow! Wow.... that was extremely interesting thank you for bringing us along for the ride
Very interesting to see this behind the scenes of the Ricoh evolution and technological wonders that the GRIII is.
I love all my ricoh GR!!
Thanks for the video samuel...soon that t-shirt is mine!
Best 20min on TH-cam spent for a long time. Pure camera talks where nothing else matters in this sanctuary, perfectly isolated from the noisy fast-paced world, just like Ginza in essence. Kudos to Ricoh for maintaining such a nice place for camera guys, big thank you Samuel for this video
My favourite TH-cam channel. Thank you... and the GRiii is awesome
Thank you!!! I appreciate it. GR love!
Thank You Japan
Truly enjoyed the tour and just made me want to go out more with my GRIII.
Samuel, thank you so much for sharing this. This is a truly amazing video for fan of Pentax/Ricoh, especially for GRists. What an awesome tour and behind the scene of Ricoh Japan headquarters! Meeting the Product Manager talking about the design process of GR3 and seeing the IBIS structure and magnesium body was truly amazing. Thank you again Sam for this rare treat!!! Love your work and channel!!
I'm glad to hear that!! And I'm happy to be able to share it with GR fans!
You make amazing videos! Spent the whole weekend watching through your channel! Everything from shooting in London, Japan and New York, and then adjusting settings in my Ricoh GR 3 (Excellent video about that) and then going out to shoot my self.
I immediately hit the like button once the beat drops. It's pavlovic to me I suppose ha. Thanks for sharing this place with us.
Thank you! It was interesting!
my fav past time place to visit when im in ginza
Very likeable guy. I enjoyed the insights.
Would love to visit the place someday
Oh, what a great idea. I would love to come and visit next time I am in Tokyo!
Can't wait for the Ricoh GR III Samuel L. Streetlife Special Edition with a bonus moustache
Hahaha! Oh my that is funny! :D
EXCELLENT video. Very unique, thank you.
Thanks Matt!
Ok です! Excellent Samuel, thank you so much for this tour, it was very interesting and informative.
Hehe thanks Chris!
Great tour. I love how many photo books they have throughout all the areas! Would have been interesting to ask Mr. Arai what are his favorites on his bookshelf. Also very cool seeing the prototypes.
My guess is it was the Vivian Maier book :)
Great video, thanks!
After watching a few of your videos I have the GR III on order.
Very cool content. Been there a few weeks ago, took a picture of the big Ricoh sign with my gr2 and wondered what's inside the building.
It was my first time also. Always wondered if that was the office of ricoh or just advertising. Turned out it was a showroom & gallery :)
Vers Nice vidéo. As the Ricoh camera: discrete polite and effective. Plus I love those Gxr. What a wonderful camera😀 Sadly the concept has not been pushed forward... If I go to Tokyo I will visit the place.
Thanks for showing a places I'll never have the pleasure of visiting. Love the cool Ricoh bag. Is there anywhere in the USA to buy Ricoh memorabilia?
It's good to see that Ricoh takes their time to finalize their products.
I work for one the leading, oldest and generally most trusted companies in the in the field of industrial electrics and the quality control is almost absent in this company. We don't even thoroughly test our products before we have sent dozens of them to our customers. And these products cost from 50k€ to 100k€ a piece. It's all just quick and dirty + retrofit kits afterwards.
Very interesting but I think it was the opportunity to ask the people at Ricoh when they are going to solve the problem of dust on the sensor. You don't have to go to great lengths to check many users who have had to send the sensor several times to clean it. A very expensive camera to have this kind of problem.
A shoot, i use to be a pentaxian and i had the k5 and all the stars lenses .
Now i shoot nikon full frame and the fuji xpro1-2 lineup.
Boy o boy i was so disappointed when i sold the k5 , best feeling handling camera ever held in my hands..
Sick
I still have my Pentax spotmatic with the 55mm 1.8 Super Takumar lens.
I had a Pentax 67 and a 6x7.
I am 76 now and a bit weaker, so I regretfully sold them.
My son uses a Pentax K1000 with the 50mm 1.7 lens.
I am looking for a Ricoh digital
I'm not sure which model to get now
Great episode... 👌
Please get your hands on a Pentax-Q series camera!!!!!
TheMsavage is the Pentax a good camera?
Size 10 Soles I’d say it’s good and for sure fun!! I can’t speak on Pentax for DSLR or their APS-C line. But their Q series is soooo FUN. Search “Pentax Q” and watch Mattias Burling you’ll love it
Nice, thanks for these insights. The gallery definitely looks like it's worth a visit :)
First, I was waiting for you to jump on a Shinkansen to Osaka since you wrote "in Tokyo & Osaka" in the beginning 😅✌️
Thanks for watching Jerry! I was in Osaka before I visited the Tokyo Showroom :) But I took a 10 hour ride via the Bus... Saving money!
Very interesting! I really like my GRiii and when this COVID-shit is over, I will take trip to Japan and buy myself a GR-t-shirt ;-)
I said i will keep the x100f but i changed to the grIII :D the lens sharpness the creation of own custom settings the IBIS and the amazing positive film preset plus this camera really fits in the inside pocket of my jacket made me change :)
Oh wow. Happy compact shooting then! :)
and the negative film preset update 3 years later. :D
The Ricoh R1 was one of my favorite film cameras. I just wish it had been more reliable.
Thank you for the video!
Thank you for watching :)
GR is very great snapshot,,,,, i like it，，，，
Wish I had visited Ricoh whilst I was in Ginza!
Interessant etwas über die Hintergründe von Ricoh zu erfahren. Ich liebe meine Gr3 😜
Freut mich das es Dir gefallen hat!
Thank You for showing around. We must start something like this in India,There is a big trend happening with street photography in India
Bismillah
Wonderful. Thanks. Please next time let us know so that we can give you some questions to ask. For example what about a telephoto lens for GRIII? Thank you great video and channel!
Thanks! I already did a interview with subscriber questions with another product manager from ricoh (video on my channel) but they cannot really know yet if a telephoto lens can be considered. They are not writing it off though. I guess it depens on the success of the GR.
Cool video. Definitely gonna visit on my next trip to Japan.
Now all I'm waiting for is the price of GR III to drop a lil' (at least $50) so that I can get one before I arrive in Japan.
Maybe you can save a few bucks by buying it in japan? You probably can get it tax free and that might save you more than 50 bucks.
Do,you think a GR IV will come anytime soon?
So...that’s why the flash had to go. I still wish they’d made the camera just a bit longer and fit in a flash. Very nice interview and tour. I was there a few years back but never got the VIP treatment; now I feel I did. Thanks.
Yep, hopefully the flash comes back some day. Thanks for your comment!
The opening jazz song is very good , what is the name of the song /artist ? I mean the music that start from 0.48 mins....thank you
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Is there any different made in japan or made in vietnam? In malaysia we got the made in vietnam is it good?
the camera porn is strong in this one lol
haha true :)
As a Fuji X70 shooter, I think they made very bad decision excluding flash and not including tilt-screen (as on X70).
Can you tell them to change the USA official service center? they screwed up my ricoh and returned it with oil on the sensor and wouldn't fix it. It was such a hassle I had to email and complain to Ricoh USA before they sent me a refurbed one as a replacement for me after dealing 4-5 months without my GR. When i read forums its not just me complaining.
That sucks. I doubt Ricoh Japan can do anything about that. Hopefully they see this and talk to the customer servise in the US. As far as I know each country deals with it independently.
This place is closed now 😢
Bcoz this youtube, i bought Griii today
Can I have one?
All those cameras just sitting on display begging to be used. Great insights. I joined the GR cult recently and this video makes me double down with the brand.
Hehe. Thanks man!
There is dust on that sensor :)
Haha :D
Ricoh Pentax dead - I dont think so 🙂
ask those cheesy pentaxians where my anniversary edition k-1000 MIRRORLESS K-MOUNT FULL FRAME CAMERA is?!!??! UNFORTUNATELY FOR THEM my VAST collection of excellent pentax lenses are on a $2000 fuji body, but they would much rather be on a PENTAX!!!!
honestly though... my rant continues... i would accept a Pentax APS-C mirrorless camera too. it would be nice if they made something for people such as myself who DESPISE MANUAL FOCUS / MODERN FEELING GLASS. how does anyone shoot street photography in auto? LOL
pentax is wrong to suggest the evf is a fad - the hubris is reprehensible. my workflow in the edit suite has dropped by 80% since buying the Fuji. WYSIWYG is for real, pentax.
just build a simple, rugged, retro, middle-market, k-1000-esque mirrorless camera and they will all come back... don't skimp on the evf and it will be another k mount classic.