I ordered Sigma Dp1 because I did read so many good reviews but at the same time I bought it, I got the Canon G11 as a gift from my sister.
So far what I read from this camera reviews are "this is not a camera for newbie or amateurs, you know what you're doing when shooting with this camera".
And I know what exactly I'm doing with this camera, returning it. Here are some highlights
1. I may not be a professional but I'm definitely NOT a photography newbie, I have couple canon and Sony DSLRs and couple Sony and eight L lenses in my bag and been shooting for years, and yes I do know how to play around with shutter speed, aperture, iso....
2. my first feeling of this Sigma Dp1 is it's so light, and cheap build plastic quality on my hand.
3. extremely noise LCD, I turned it on in a room with big windows and lots of sun light, but the LCD showed noise like hell. It's a very low resolution LCD.
4. slow autofocus.
5. extremely slow processing speed after taking a photo, looks like it froze for 5-6 seconds and you can't even do anything with the camera until the camera "wakes up". The red light is on indicating that it's "processing". I can't accept this kind of speed, specially for a point and shoot (DSLR alike). 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. flash popping up is plastic cheap sound and not it's bright enough.
8. non IS lens, f/4 lens, not many features, and can't work in low light condition. to somebody, f/4 is enough, yes, but it has to be outdoor and perfect lighting condition, if you take scenic or outdoor photo, f/4 is ok. Sorry Sigma, but I usually shoot at night, in restaurants, bars, night clubs, and auto/program mode gave me blur images. If I increase Shutter speed to get sharp image, it's dark and noise as hell....
9. design has no hand grip, hard to hold in your hand.
10. cheap button, black icon color blending in black plastic button (smart design huh?), hard to see and read.
My current G11 rocks, Canon has lowered the MP to improve low light performance and it is really good, macro is extremely good, IS works really well for sharp image even at 5X optical zoom, it's much better than my old G10. Even the G11 that has 10MP censor, it gave me 3648 x 2736 pixel at 180 dpi. I really do not understand Sigma and how could they survive their DP series.
Hope this review helps.
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