Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/05/20

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Sigma DP1 review
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan)
Date: Tue May 20 11:59:42 2008
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Funny you mention it, Steve, I have just bought exactly that  
combination to supplement my E3 outfit. It is waiting for me at my  
son's place in Bath (I bought it at Digital Depot in the UK). I will  
lay my hands on it when I go there in 3 weeks.

Cheers,
Nathan


On 20-mei-2008, at 20:45, Steve Barbour wrote:

>
> On May 20, 2008, at 11:43 AM, Nathan wrote:
>
>> Well, the whole reason why many people got excited about the DP1  
>> was that it had a sensor similar to 4/3, i.e. much bigger than the  
>> typical P&S camera has. Therefore, one had the right to expect  
>> that it would perform on a level similar to the 4/3 cameras or the  
>> 1.6 sensor DSLRs, which clearly is not the case. And when is slow  
>> nice? Certainly not when trying to do street photography, or any  
>> other photography for that matter. When I had the GRD, one of the  
>> most unbearable things about it was that it took 5-6 seconds to  
>> write a RAW file to the card. From the review, it seems that the  
>> Sigma is even worse in that regards.
>>
>> Forget it.
>
>
> maybe the Oly E 420 with the pancake...?
>
> Steve
>>

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