I picked up the Ricoh GR4 near the end of December 2025, and after a full month of street and documentary shooting, this video is basically my “is this actually right for you?” breakdown—especially with that $2,000 price tag hanging over everything. I go through the design and why it earns the pocket rocket title (yes, I even did the banana-for-science size comparison), the one-handed layout, and the stuff Ricoh absolutely nailed: 5-axis stabilisation in a body this small, the ridiculously fast startup time, and the new internal storage that gives you that 53GB safety net when you forget a card. I also talk about the looks—Ricoh’s Image Control is my equivalent of Fujifilm film sims. My favorite black and white is High Contrast, and for color I keep coming back to Positive Film because it’s a sweet spot that doesn’t need editing. Then I get into the real drawbacks: no weather sealing (and the dust concern), no built-in viewfinder, a non-articulating LCD, battery life that still won’t last a moderate day, and the camera feeling genuinely fragile. Finally, I address the weird one: motion blur showing up even at 1/500s in some quick “raise and shoot” moments. I wrap it all up with who the GR4 is for, why its simplicity comes from deep customisation, and whether anything else really competes if you want this exact kind of camera.