Gavin

Thanks again, and if you have any those kind pictures, please send me email.

Your pictures are great, and I can learn a lot from your HOWTO too! Nice web!

But the delay between shots is more annoying. You can put it in “continues mode” as I did and take three rapid shots – you have no chance so change focus during these three shots and they’re done below a second. So, delay to take a shot is very nice and SLR like. But the second shot which I sometimes think is very important is just too far away. Around 5s or so.

It’s not hard to take a shot of moving people. really. You just have to get used to the thumb wheel.

If I can find those shots I could email them to you, I found your email as well. Hope this answer some of your question.

One question is very important, the shuttle delay, assume you are using manual focus mode(so the AF lag is eliminated), you estimate the distance to object, and quickly rotate the distance dial to corresponding distance, and quickly press the shuttle bottom, from the time to press down the shuttle bottom to the picture was taken(don’t care the writing disk time), is it fast enough to capture what you want/see, or fast enough to capture the moving object? Usually by regular DCs, when you press bottom till picture was taken, the moving object is already out of scope or your screen, that is what I hate.

If it is really fast, I rarely see people post there dp-1 pciture of moving object online? I really want to see those continue shoots of running people in your video.

Thanks for your time, if it is fast enough to a regular viewfinder film camera, can capture what you want, I will buy one.

One question here, which is really important for me, how about the shuttle lag of Dp-1, assume you use manual focus mode, just estimate a distance to object, and quickly rotate the manual focus dial to corresponding distance, which means focus delay is eliminated, then from the time you press down the shuttle bottom, to the picture was taken, is it fast enough to capture the moving objects?

As I realy hate the focus delay and shuttle delay, two typical problem of current porpular DCs, if DP-1 is really fast enough for this, I will buy one.

Thanks for your time!

But unfortunately, Paul Reynolds of Sigma UK wasn’t quite as forward thinking as the Olympus UK PR people… and declined the opportunity! lol – it does take confidence in your product to give it to a large group of unpaid reviewers!

I’ll just have to buy one when the dust (and initial interest) has settled and maybe we’ll mention it in one of our future reviews.

Kind Regards

Brian

:D I know Sigma comes here from time to time. They’re very interested in knowing what people want. Remember, this is their first P&S style camera.

I will also get back to your points later.. Thanks for sharing.

lol, cool video… well done! can you get some feedback to Sigma on the User Interface? Sigma are so close to having a winner… just a bit of finishing work on the firmware and I will be as enthusiastic as you!

My comments from dpreview :

I had a chance to play with the DP1 on the Sigma stand yesterday at the Focus on Imaging show – it is tantalisingly close to being a ‘classic’ camera – but I would like to see Sigma knock off a couple more rough edges on the user interface.

I will be buying one of these, by the way – so please understand these are intended to be constructive suggestions for improvements – I want to see Sigma have success with this camera.

1) The manual focus wheel is great – my suggestion would be to also use it in AF mode, where the manual focus wheel becomes a zoom box control – with the arrows becoming positional controls for the zoom box which then positions the AF contrast patch.

So, you’re in AF mode… you rotate the manual zoom wheel and a green outline box shrinks smoothly from the full size to any size on screen. You then move the box to anywhere on the screen to select a focus area. If you switch into MF mode at this point, you get to focus manually, and the screen zooms in to the area highlighted. If you just half press the shutter release (in AF mode) the camera attempts to auto focus centred on the patch you have highlighted.

2) For future ref… put a faster processor in the thing, and more RAM to allow at least 1 fps shooting in RAW mode for upto 6 shots… come on Sigma – don’t cheap out on us if this is supposed to be a premium product?

3) I’m surprised that there are *any* issues with image processing if the DP1 shares the same technology as the SD14… I trust any IQ problems will be dealt with before shipping, or soon afterwards via firmware upgrade.

I think that overall, Sigma have a winner provided they don’t ruin their chances by sticking to a release price of £600 in the UK. It should be more like £400 imho
Can’t wait to buy one!

Kind Regards

Brian

Thanks for quick responding. The Leica I meant was DLux3 which is about £400-£450. From a practical view I would love to be able to keep shooting some actions with minimum delay between shots. As I understand it is the processing that takes time. So how about processing? How long does it take?
In other words how soon will DP1 be ready for the next shot in RAW and in jpeg mode? Please advise

Thnakyou

The thing is that the writing to the card time is a none issue – it’s not that that takes time. It’s the processing before the writing starts. At the same moment that the writing to memory card starts, at that moment you can take the next picture.

Remember that somewhere around 40MB of data is leaving the sensor before it’s re-made to become a saved 11-15MB file. A pretty tough computer is doing some computing. :)