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Question: What happened to the price???? I was about to pull the trigger on this when it was <$480, but the price is back up to its old point again. Bummer. Not worth it now.
Document: I get a kick out of the Sigma's old-style manual focus, which uses an actual dial-in focusing tool complete with a guide that pops up on the screen. The Panasonic manual focus is more awkward, though it does nicely display depth of field.The choice of cameras was tough back then and I hated--for financial reasons--having to make a choice between the two cameras.
The Foveon sensor is unique and renders images beautifully. I tend to use manual focus most of the time. The camera has a nice, solid feel to it. It's not as small as many other compacts, but small enough. I sometimes use it on a lightweight tripod as a quick and light landscape camera. It is indeed slow, but if you care about your photography, and work easily with the 28mm focal length, it is well worth the wait. I'm glad I came back to the DP1.
800 is somewhat disappointing as color saturation drops off dramatically.Yes it is slow for point and shooters and has a lousy lcd but if that is sacrifices Sigma had to make for a superior image from a compact camera at this price point its fine with me. I am having a blast with this camera as it opens up a whole new world of image possibilities.
First, I love my Sigma DP1 camera. That being said, I also am 100% clear on the reason why other reviewers may hate this camera.So, to help anyone else out there who is trying to sort through the good and bad reviews, let me present the following three questions you should ask yourself before buying.1. What am I shooting mostly?Looking back through my old digital albums, I saw mostly architecture, stills of people, animals, and nature scenes.
Even a $150. Canon ELPh can do higher quality 640x480 DVD quality videos. The Sigma DP1 only does QVGA 320 resolution videos.The camera looks cool and the images out of it are certainly better than other small point and shoot cameras (it comes close but does not equal the image quality of out a DSLR). But, with all the negatives, the Sigma DP1 is just not worth the money.
I have been a happy user of this camera for more than 2 months. In terms of image quality, I would say it is better than most affordable DSLRs. After I got my Sigma SD14, I threw my Canon 400D into trash can and sold my 5D at very cheap price.
I wish the powerup was quicker and the lens was a stop faster. Of course, that would mean a fixed lens (that doesn't retract on poweroff), so the camera wouldn't be quite so portable, but I'd pay that price. Another issue is the Sigma supplied software to process RAW images, which takes a bit of getting used to.
Probably with a sandisk extreme SD, it would be better, but...not worth it.6. Very slow resolution, even though it has 14MP, but I do not understand why resolution is extremely low, in photoshop it's showing me the photo is 2500 something by 1000 something. This is unacceptable for a 14MP, I felt like Sigma is lying to me. I checked the image quality option and really, it's the highest photo quality setting.7.
It does not bother me, as I have been using old cameras such as Leica M and Hasselblad. Actually, in addition to IQ, there is one thing I like very much: the manual focusing wheel. After some half-hour practice, I found that I got a digital Leica M with a 28mm lens, which can do auto focus when needed!
I found Sigma Photo Pro a joy to work with, but a bit slow. It may be my computer, which is getting old now. I said above that I found the camera plenty fast enough for me, having said that, I found Raw files very slow to write to the card after the shot was taken (about 8 secs). But I have to remind myself that this is a very small camera and the Raw files are huge (18mb).
Answer: It's $399 today!