Can you get noiseless photos at night from a Ricoh GR APS-C sensor camera? In a word ... YES, along with a little assistance from Lightroom's new Denoise feature.

The photos in this video can be further inspected individually here:
View the Before and After Lightroom's Denoise feature added to each Photo in Video

So, more 'fake, AI processing?' No more than the jpeg you get straight out of the camera. That's right, the jpeg straight out camera likely has been processed to death before you see it. Even if you're shooting in manual mode, and even if you dial in the parameters of the editing straight to camera, the brain of the camera is doing exactly the same thing you're brain is doing when you use photoshop or lightroom. It's taking the digital information it's allowed to absorb, and doing it's best to make it look like a finished photo should look like.

Did an ebay purchase gone bad turn out to be a good thing for me? In this video I discuss what happened when I ordered the wrong item based on the seller's description. Find out how and if the ordeal was resolved to satisfaction.

Nonetheless, I took the opportunity to try out the camera in question and in this video I explain my first impressions and show some images I shot both indoors and outside. I also explain how to tell the difference between the two versions of the Ricoh GR and Ricoh GR Digital cameras, and why there is a price difference so you don't get bamboozled into the wrong camera!

But the question is, if you did get bamboozled, would it be worth keeping? Check out the video and find out my impressions and opinion.

After a heart-stopping moment when my Pentax K70 took a 6-foot tumble off my tripod, I go in-depth and discuss ten major benefits the Pentax K70 offers that rival many DSLRs recently released. Is the Pentax K70 a camera you want to consider in 2023? Check out the positive and negative features I point out in this video and you be the judge. If you own a Pentax K70, let me know your thoughts and opinions on how this camera fits your shooting style.