Fuzzy Cosmonaut posted:

No mention of the Sigma DP1/2?

I just got a used DP1, it's kind of slow, both in aperture and handling, the DP2 is supposed to be faster though, f2.8 as opposed to the 4.0 of the DP1.

The DP1 is still a nice camera though, both in specs and looks. And you can get one used pretty cheap.

Nice wide lense, shoots RAW, no annoying digital zoom, no reduntant face recognition, no 400 different programs (just auto A P M, sound and movie), no posterize, invert or other lovely looking image processing built in.

Just a... clean working camera, you should probably get a DP2 if you can afford it though, i see the possibility that the slowness of the DP1 could be too much for some users.

I shoot almost exclusively film with SLR otherwise and the DP-series and it's aimed at people who already know the basics of photography so that's why I like it/some people would hate it.

I guess is kind of a photographers-compact (i wouldn't say it's a P&S) as opposed to the I WANNA TAKE PICTURES OF MY WIFE AND KIDS AND FISHING BUDDIES-crowd of compacts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma_DP1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma_DP2
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=sigma%20dp1&w=all


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