Is 7.5 MP Enough? - Testing the Ricoh GR III 50mm Crop Mode 

I’m always getting good vibes watching your videos because of your cheerful personality. Keep it up, Luke!

It was amusing to see the “is it enough” question, I’ve been shooting digital since my 6mp digital rebel and back in the day it was considered large and still good for print. And i had come from a PowerShot with like 4 or 5 mp. I still have a 1d with 4mp and it’s perfectly serviceable (in good light lol)

@2:45: 100% of a 7,5mp file will show you the same crop of the picture as 100% of the 24mp file. "100%" is always according to the resolution of your screen. Two different screens will show different crops of 100%. You can check that easily by comparing 100% on camera screen and on PC. So you can’t say how many Megapixel that will be. @5:36: 35mm crop = 4800x3200 = 15,36mp

I read that the 35megapixel crop is 15 megapixels and the 50mm crop is 7 megapixels on this camera.

If the image is good enough…..Mega Pixels don’t matter

I think the 100% view of all 3 focal length would be identical. The megapixel effects will affect the size of your prints done with the 50mm crop.

Is there a point in cropping during shooting vs. just cropping in post? Is the quality any different?

7.5 MP is actually close to the resolution of a 4K TV. Would you say that this is a low resolution? No. However, I much rather take the 28mm and crop in post. The Ricoh GR is doing the same.

Thanks. Remember you can always boost the pixels in post.

Hi! They were playing Beach Handball. This crop mode is like the Leica Q2 and Q3, but those have plenty megapixels to crop from… I can be sure that the crop mode in Ricoh GRiii is no crap… 😊

I crop into 50mm on my griii all the time. For social media it’s more than enough! The lens is sharp… the sensor is great. Crop away my friends

I always hoot at times with the crop mode with my GR1 and GRiiix.

The megapixel wars really made everyone think we needed more than 6 megapixels for a good image. The only time it really comes into play is for extensive post processing or cropping. Prints hide a lot, and large prints hide even more due to normal viewing distance.

Not sure what you mean by cropping a 7.5Mp image to 100% ?

Good video, I thought my 16MP Panasonic GX880 was plenty good enough and my Fujifilm X-M1 at 16MP is certainly enough.

You might consider getting the GRiiix though.

So 8mp is 4k... which would still look great on most monitors/tv's etc. - main issue would be printing. It can get confusing trying to figure, how much is enough for most formats.

Its easier to crop when the image quality is good to begin with. Also 24mp starting point is good enough .

0:10 LOL good one

always use 50mm with GR3 .........😇