Ricoh GR review – Dynamic range
Like many of the other cameras with 16-million-pixel, APS-C-sized sensors that we have seen in the past few years, the Ricoh GR has a very good dynamic range. When editing the raw images, highlight details can be recovered within a reasonable tolerance, and there is a lot of information in very dark shadow areas. In fact, in one image taken just after sunrise, a car tyre that was completely black to look at and hidden in shadow not only became visible, but the trademark in the tyre could be clearly seen after a +5EV adjustment in camera raw. Some noise was obvious in the shadow area, but it is impressive that the raw files hold this image data.
