{"id":3353,"date":"2026-09-24T16:55:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:59:05","slug":"ricoh-gr-lv-monochrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/24\/ricoh-gr-lv-monochrom\/","title":{"rendered":"RICOH GR lV Monochrom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Had this beauty a few weeks now, and while I&rsquo;m generally very pleased with the quality of the images, and I&rsquo;m getting used to the size of the body (minute!) I&rsquo;m generally NOT impressed with the battery life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was until yesterday when I decided to investigate on Internet &#8211; and it turns out I&rsquo;m not the only person who has noticed this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The results of my search show that this model (all the GR lV variants in fact) leave the WiFi and Bluetooth radios <strong>active<\/strong> even when the machine is turned off &#8211; it seems that this is done to allow a faster startup when the &lsquo;on&rsquo; button is pressed, and also allows a more rapid synchronisation with a smart device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The answer provided by Internet was simply to turn on &lsquo;Airplane&rsquo; mode in the menu which effectively turns off all radio communications. I effected this change 24 hours ago, and so far the battery indicator has not moved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And now for some recent images<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_9822.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_9822.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3354\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/R0000214-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/R0000214-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3355\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/R0000214-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/R0000214-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/R0000214-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/R0000214-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/R0000219-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/R0000219-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3356\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/R0000219-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/R0000219-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/R0000219-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/R0000219-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have in fact organized an exhibition of 22 of my latest  B&amp;W images which will be available, on a wall somewhere, for the month of October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had this beauty a few weeks now, and while I&rsquo;m generally very pleased with the quality of the images, and I&rsquo;m getting used to the size of the body (minute!) I&rsquo;m generally NOT impressed with the battery life. This was until yesterday when I decided to investigate on Internet &#8211; and it turns out I&rsquo;m &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/24\/ricoh-gr-lv-monochrom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;RICOH GR lV Monochrom&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3359,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions\/3359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iangrandjean.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}