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Sigma
DP1
A Compact “Full Spec” Camera
by George Schaub
A funny
thing happened to me while I was shooting and reviewing the new Sigma
DP1 compact camera in New Mexico. I had taken a lunch break in a local
taqueria and in came a couple that sat down at the next table. Next
to the guy’s backpack and hat he set down the Sigma DP1. I did
a double take, and asked him how he liked it. “Great,” he
said, “the picture quality is terrific, although it does make
you think.”
Thinking
about the pictures you make is not a bad idea, yet many of today’s
compact cameras are so automated, with “smart” processors
and full auto modes that some of the fun, and admittedly the challenge
of photography is taken away in the process. The Sigma DP1 certainly
qualifies as a compact, pocketable camera, being 4.5 x 2.3 x 2 inches
in size and weighing in a bit over 8 oz., and it certainly can be used
on Auto mode. But if you take the time to explore it you can find so
many more options akin to working with a DSLR. And it is a unique compact
in that it is the only one that uses a larger, Foveon style sensor,
being the three-color layer type rather than have a mosaic of RGB filters
over a monochrome sensor, like all but Sigma DSLRs sport.
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