I’m not going to waste that much money on an old camera.Įventually, I went to AliExpress, an international version of, and found a store that sells the flex PCB I wanted to replace manually. However, Ricoh US provides an official repairing service but sending the camera to the repairing site costs around USD 250. After I googled the camera repairing service for a while, some of them either have bad reviews or the costs are higher than expected.

While I was feeling nostalgic, I knew the repair price here in the States must be pricey. So yeah, I missed the good old days when I could visit Huaqiangbei, find electronic parts easily, and get them at the lowest price (and with decent quality) possible. I know it because the last time the LCD screen was broken, it cost me roughly 200 RMB (around USD 30) to replace the parts, and worked perfectly.

On (the Chinese equivalent of eBay), there are tons of repairing services I could contact to fix my GR. To be precise, the lens cable was broken after frequent stretching when the main board controls the lens to push it out and in.īack in Shenzhen, I could easily find a place to repair it without hassles. Michael assumes that the issue is due to the long-term use of the camera. Luckily, I shared the same issue that Michael from StreePhotoTip encountered – and probably every Ricoh GR II user around me has the same issue if they used it for a long time. But it functioned well after taking one photo, and the process usually took quite a long time (due to the all-black scene with the curtain, not opening). Last year around December, I noticed the shutter curtain didn’t open (see picture below) when I powered it on. Here are some photos I took in the past few years: Street candid, architecture, landscape, portrait, macro, product… I’d recommend you buy one if you are new to and interested in film and digital photography, as well as want to bring it with you every day. In fact, I think I’ve used it for every possible ways. I bought my GR II in Hong Kong around 2016, and I’ve been bringing it with me as much as possible since then. Among all the upsides of this model, I specifically love the macro effect, as well as the unique “Daido” (high-contrast black and white) preset. It is undoubtedly the best APS-C camera out there on the market. It has the most petite body compared to other competitive models (e.g., Sony RX100) while maintaining the best image resolution of its kind. Indeed, the Ricoh GR II is a camera that does the best at helping me to capture the best moment of my daily life – and the world I have experienced – throughout the past six years. I do not try to find myself in what I “shoot,” but perhaps I want to see the position of the world I am in.

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