Ricoh's firmware development team has been busy as ever fettling its GR Digital II premium compact and has today released the fruits of its labor - v1.12. This update improves image quality at lower resolutions in addition to fixing a couple of issues regarding the ADJ lever. Also, the lens will now initialize when exiting macro mode to improve focus accuracy. Download link coming up after the click.

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Gordon: Thanks to forum poster optical_illusion for the heads-up on this release

v1.12 revisions

• Improved an image quality in a small size (VGA etc.)
• Modified the following phenomena.
  • If you operate the ADJ lever in the macro mode, display switching speed may change.
  • f you operate the ADJ lever while compensating exposure, any keys will not work.
• When you exit a macro mode, the lens unit operating will become initialized in order to improve a focus accuracy.