Poor Sigma. The company keeps banging away with its cameras, but there is either always something wrong with them, or they’re just plain late. Not late to ship (although that happens too), but just plain late. The cameras often feel like they are using technology already two years out of date.
The DP1, for example, was a great, stylish and stripped down camera — a fixed lens and a big, high quality Fovean sensor. It was marred by terrible controls, a labyrinthine menu system and a ridiculously slow ƒ4 maximum aperture. It was also delayed, over an over.
The DP2 offers promise, and was spotted in the UK at the Focus on Imaging exhibition by Richard Kilpatrick. He gave it the once over and declared it "20% snappier". The menu system is improved, there is a new quick access button for changing oft-used settings and the body has seen some physical tweaks (a slightly larger thumb grip for one) and a maximum aperture of ƒ2.8.
Most exciting, though, is that the camera has a top ISO of 3200. This, coupled with that roomy sensor should mean great low light shots. It’s just a shame that the DP1 won’t be around until later in the year. Late again — the Panasonic LX-3 already has a great maximum aperture, good low-light performance and the lens, while being faster, wider and a zoom, still doesn’t need to drive its way out, motor grinding, into the world every time you switch it on. It’s also available today.
Sigma UK at Focus On Imaging – and DP2 news [Sigma User via BBG]
Photo [Richard Kilpatrick/Sigma User]
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