Ricoh’s black-and-white-only camera launches in February for $2,200

The Ricoh GR IV Monochrome now has a value and is already up for preorder. The dedicated black-and-white camera, based connected the modular GR IV pinch a fixed 28mmm-equivalent lens, will costs $2,199.95 — a $700 premium complete the GR IV. Ricoh first announced the GR IV Monochrome was being made backmost successful October, and it was owed for motorboat successful the spring. But it’s apparently coming successful mid-February, pinch retailers for illustration B&H Photo already taking orders.

The GR IV Monochrome is simply a uncommon breed, offering a compact camera pinch a ample APS-C sensor that lacks a colour select — only capturing achromatic and white. This should spend the camera somewhat accrued sharpness and higher ISO levels, now ranging from ISO 160 to a wildly precocious 409,600.

While astir of the GR IV Monochrome’s specs lucifer the regular GR IV, for illustration its 26-megapixel solution and microSD paper slot supported by 53GB of soul storage, the Monochrome has a built-in reddish filter. Just arsenic successful black-and-white movie photography, shooting done a reddish select people deepens contrast, and successful the GR IV Monochrome it besides doubles arsenic a two-stop ND filter. Aesthetically, the GR IV Monochrome has a blacked-out GR logo, matte finish, and achromatic LED powerfulness ray alternatively of the accustomed green.

This is easy my astir anticipated camera of 2026, arsenic I’m a large instrumentality of black-and-white-only integer cameras for illustration Leica’s Monochrom lines. Spending immoderate important coin connected a camera that can’t sprout colour is of people only for the astir passionate (or foolhardy) fans of achromatic and achromatic photography. But while the GR IV Monochrome carries a precocious value for a Ricoh, it’s a pittance compared to the $7,790 of Leica’s latest Q3 Monochrom aliases the $10,160 of the M11 Monochrom (before moreover buying a lens). Even astatine $2,200, the GR IV is overmuch much attainable, and early hands-on impressions from immoderate trusted compatriots look promising.