Ricoh GR III AF Setup Guide -Get Great Results With These Tips! 

Matti... Ricoh/Pentax should make you a GR Ambassador! Your videos are concise but packed with information. There's no ego and your presentation accomplish the most important thing... encouraging users to go out and experiment. Keep up the great work!

I’m a new GR user. Your videos make me more understand of each function. Thank you so much.😊

Yes, I don't understand people who complain on the GR's AF. I use AF exclusively on my GR 3X, and it's almost always correct. In some tricky situations I just tap the screen to select a focus point.

This is a great video, I found all of your tips incredibly useful. Thanks for making it 👍🏻🙃

Thanks again Matti, a very helpful discussion. Ricoh nailed it with this little beast and given that a GR3x has become my trusted EDC, IMHO its versatility can’t be discussed enough.

Great stuff, Matti. This will be a useful resource for years to come!

Thank you! So useful content 💕

I love my GRiii, my goto travel camera. Matti and Peter Forsgárd are my favourite photography channels! Thank you Matti from Wales.

Matti, just want to thank you for taking time to make these very helpful videos. I just got the GR III and your videos helped me so much. Seeing photos of Malaysia being featured in your videos got me even more excited to start shooting now 🤣 (I’m from Malaysia). Looking forward to more awesome contents from you!

While I don’t use a Ricoh, I really like the insight into your shooting decisions. That makes me think more about my own decisions for camera selections. Very helpful.

Useful go-through Matti. I haven't tried all the modes yet, so I'm learning.

I’m going to buy this camera. I love street photography and think it will be great Much love from Russia, love your content❤

Very interesting and constructive explanation as always.

great vid !!

Very very useful, thank you so much.

Nice video! Thank you!

Thanks Matti I recently repurchased the Ricoh GRIii. I never gave it a chance the first time. However I really like it now

I love my Ricoh GRIII, and I think it is the perfect camera for me, but I'm quite tired of defending it from exaggerated, outdated, or snap judgement criticism online. 😂 I think most of the issue is that it's a very specialised tool, which once you get to know it really flourishes into this high performance extension of yourself. However, it is an intermediate+ level piece of equipment. So if you can't adapt to use the best intelligent UX features, it isn't beginner friendly at all. Making it fail for most popular reviewers who use it for a week or even one day. And also for beginners who think it must he a simple camera due to its point and shoot look. The learning curve just isn't easy for the non-committed. This is why I think it's best to stay quiet about it unless it's a place where people can understand the value of it. And it still has better AF than my Fujifilm camera. ✌️

Nice!

Thanks!

As an Olympus user who is stuck on Contrast Detect, this is an very essential video!

Excellent video as always. Just as an aside and being based in the UK, I tend to think of ADJ as an abbreviation for the word adjust. Thanks for posting all the photos and video you do.

Hi Matti, nice to see another one of your videos. Choosing the right Focus modes are important to get the best results for different situations. I like the AUTO AREA AF MODE which will be good for photographing a group of people, if there is nothing between the camera and the subject, THE PEOPLE then the camera will focus straight at the subject. Great presentation, thanks Matti 😊

I loved the GR, updated with the GRiii and struggled to get focused images, slowly getting to grips with it again after getting frustrated. Hopefully this will help me get back to where I was

Another valuable video. Would love to hear or see your experience with the GR III/IIIx in low light situations. 👍👍

Great video as always. I have a GRIIIX and I am pleased with AF system. I’ve changed it a few times but find myself now mostly used the center AF. Question on the AutoISO settings do you mind sharing your parameters. ISO limit, low, high and min shutter speed for standard everyday walking around. Thanks

ADJ (Adjust or Adjustment) Lever … I’ve just had a go at zone/snap focus for candid images, some were very slightly blurred, I now think I know why! - Very useful video - thanks 😊

The GRIII (or at least GRIIIx) AF I found great in that when it tells it it locked, it really did. The Face Detect and Eye tracking in live preview before you go S-AF is great. What is not great is when you go into moderate- lower to lower light at night. The camera refused to lock AF in many situations and I lost shots. I understand the GRIII with its 28mm equiv will most likely focus faster but I still think AF speed is one of the things they should update for what will be a GRIV line. I guess we won't agree much, the AF is the reason I gave the GRIIIx as a gift to a friend. Great Camera though, with great UI.

Hi Matti, really appreciated with your sharings on the channel. Ricoh had recent firmware update for GR3 (1.91)/GR3x (1.41) with zone select AF and custom WB settings. Don't know if you tried that and wait for your comments/tips too.

I've been using Nikon Z system, and while i enjoy its color science and image quality especially for macro photography, I wanted a much more compact system for family/travel. I did like my Z6 with a 28mm "pancake" lens and very compact after using all the other massive Z glass 😅 but i wanted something pocketable. After finding out about the gr iii small form factor I was excited but all reviewers gave it horrible critiques about its autofocus, which was important to me as this didnt have a viewfinder or any physical tactile system for focusing. Now ive had the gr iii for a month and i can say that the autofocusing is more than enough for me and im capturing photos of my children who are all under 6, so you can imagine their sporadic movements 😂. Ive come to also enjoy using the snap focus and is quite handy on nicely lit days with my children and stop down to f8 and snap away. So im curious why all these other youtube reviewers exaggerated about gr iii autofocus system as "unusuable" and perhaps they were comparing it to Sony. I will also add that im pleasantly surprised by ricoh's image quality and colors. I know you can easily fix colors in post but this is my "dad cam" so i wanted as little post work as possible. While i shoot RAW+, 90% of the time, I'll share or print the jpegs using the "positive film emulation." Theres a lot to learn about this system and im enjoying it. I will add that i did give x100v and xpro3 a try for a couple years, and i much prefer the griii to those fujifilm cameras, they werent that bad but not as compact as i wanted and i wasnt a fan of their colors.

Very nice and educative video Matt and thx for this. This little camera is really interesting. The only issue which makes it impossible for me to buy it is the absence of view finder. So I have a list of requests for gr4 for Ricoh which can make them build a best seller. 1/ put a viewfinder if not it s not a camera it s a smartphone which can t pass calls :). 2/ put a 40mpix but don t do the error of Fuji : keep a 18mm focal and just add a cropping button for 18-23-35mm (28-35-50mm ff equivalent) and then no need to deliver a gr and a grx . 3/ put a more capacitive battery. We can bear having 2 batteries but not 3 for covering a day of shooting. 4/ keep an f2.8 aperture. If you target faster aperture you will loose the small size and this is 50% of the success of this camera. 5/ try to have a more vintage look. The (stupid) hype for the x100vi is 50% linked to this :). With all these specs M. Ricoh and if you succeed in staying under the 1750$ limit… you will sell a lot of them.

I agree, Ricoh GR3x has a very good autofocus. As you said, it is all about knowing how it works.

ADJ = Adjust 😊 = 5 individually preset options menus (e.g. AF, AE, White Balance, FixFocus, Crop...whatever you choose from the main options menu, you'll want to have a shortcut to ADJust)

To recenter the focus point you can also just double tap the screen

Hi! Great video! Can I ask about the shutter? Do you have any information about how gr3 shutter works? I mean I know it has a leaf shutter, but I not see it closes when I press the shutter button. But it closes when exposer is fininhed. So it seems it is an EFCS solution but I not found any details about it. And if it is an EFCS with leaf shutter why I not see differens between image areas? I mean the EFC rolling down, so upper pixels should get more lights then downer pixels if we use leaf shutter. Thanks your answer!!

How do I lock the focus just on the centre and forget about it? I don't need it to be shifted, I will always reframe my shot anyway.

Now, if there was just a way of re-assigning or disabling that darn Macro button that I keep hitting by mistake - it causes instant blur by shifting to Macro focus. It’s very poorly placed!

Sold two of mine because of AF. 9/10 times it misses the shot. Looking at getting Sony RX100Vii

u have been to Malaysia?

Everytime I see a video with “Ricoh GR” on it… my heart beats x10. But no, no GR IV yet 😔

By the way ADJ is just short for ADJUST

I think ADJ, means ADJust

While the GR3 AF is not the best in low light, having snap focus has spoiled me for any other camera that have far better lowlight AF. Why wait for focus at all when you don't have to? 😂

I bought the GR3 two times. Sold it two times because of the AF. Its not compatable with my 4 yo son. Funfact: Panasonic cameras (GX800), which are only using contrast af, have way better AF.

Not impressed.

Thanks!

Excellent video as always. Just as an aside and being based in the UK, I tend to think of ADJ as an abbreviation for the word adjust. Thanks for posting all the photos and video you do.