Initial impressions Sigma dp2m

My DP2 arrived in the mail today. I updated the firmware and downloaded Sigma Photo Pro 5.5 so I could view the raw files. I put the DP2 on a tripod and set the ISO at 100 and took a few shots in my living room.
Wow - the sharpness is incredible. I have never seen anything like it. Easily beats anything I have ever tried. This little beast could spoil me quickly. It will be hard to resist the DP1 and DP3.
 
Eric T said:
My DP2 arrived in the mail today. I updated the firmware and downloaded Sigma Photo Pro 5.5 so I could view the raw files. I put the DP2 on a tripod and set the ISO at 100 and took a few shots in my living room.
Wow - the sharpness is incredible. I have never seen anything like it. Easily beats anything I have ever tried. This little beast could spoil me quickly. It will be hard to resist the DP1 and DP3.
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Congrats. It is easy to get a smile when u first look at those files for the first time.. .

Have fun
Gary
 
TVR said:
Keith, we are waiting for your fist pics and comments the silence if deafening;)
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I'm as sick as a dog with the flu and I have to work for the next few days ... which is pissing me off! :p

I did take about twenty shots at the GF's place on the last Sunday and haven't downloaded them onto the computer yet ... maybe tonight if I can muster up the energy! Nothing special just some still lifes but I'm looking forward to seeing them because Carol's place is very rustic and uber photogenic. :)

I have to say I love the way the camera works though ... by the way what firmware version are we up to at the moment?
 
Keith said:
I'm as sick as a dog with the flu and I have to work for the next few days ... which is pissing me off! :p

I did take about twenty shots at the GF's place on the last Sunday and haven't downloaded them onto the computer yet ... maybe tonight if I can muster up the energy! Nothing special just some still lifes but I'm looking forward to seeing them because Carol's place is very rustic and uber photogenic. :)

I have to say I love the way the camera works though ... by the way what firmware version are we up to at the moment?
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What a bummer. Take it easy and get better first. Other stuff can wait till then. The flu is nothing to take lightly.

Gary
 
Spp crashing.. I have noticed that if I do batch save to tiff 16 of more than 6 raw from from spp, it is more likely to crash as it is working on the 7th one. I can repeat as much as I want batches for 6 w/o any problem... I have 8gb of em on my iMac. I am wondering if it is memory related. Is anyone else seeing this issue w/ 8gb or less memory on their machine?

Gary
 
Rumour has it that the stockholders were considering a corporate name change to Slipma until some Franiac told everybody to get a grip! :rolleyes:

I'm not doing batch processing so I don't have any exp. to offer. I find exposure is best tweaked individually in SPP before export. The results of the Sigma fill light slider in combo with the other usual sliders for exposure, shadow and highlights are hard to beat in LR.

I still shoot in Raw+jpg, using the jpgs merely as thumbnails to quickly review and cull images before SPP conversion.

Once I've done the conversions, I usually trash the XF3 raw files.
 
Owning one of these Merrill cameras gives one a slightly smug feeling that's hard to explain! :D

The auto focus is pretty sluggish and you can make a cup of tea while the little gem is writing a file to the card but ...

It's unique ... it has personality! :)
 
noimmunity said:
Rumour has it that the stockholders were considering a corporate name change to Slipma until some Franiac told everybody to get a grip! :rolleyes:

I'm not doing batch processing so I don't have any exp. to offer. I find exposure is best tweaked individually in SPP before export. The results of the Sigma fill light slider in combo with the other usual sliders for exposure, shadow and highlights are hard to beat in LR.

I still shoot in Raw+jpg, using the jpgs merely as thumbnails to quickly review and cull images before SPP conversion.

Once I've done the conversions, I usually trash the XF3 raw files.
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I basically am opposite. I filter using jpg in aperture, then figure out which raws to batch thru spp. The generic tiff 16 gets run thru my normal Aperture processing and that is where I do my fine tuning.

Gary
 
Keith said:
Owning one of these Merrill cameras gives one a slightly smug feeling that's hard to explain! :D

The auto focus is pretty sluggish and you can make a cup of tea while the little gem is writing a file to the card but ...

It's unique ... it has personality! :)
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The d700 spoiled u :eek::D

Gary
 
GaryLH said:
Spp crashing.. I have noticed that if I do batch save to tiff 16 of more than 6 raw from from spp, it is more likely to crash as it is working on the 7th one. I can repeat as much as I want batches for 6 w/o any problem... I have 8gb of em on my iMac. I am wondering if it is memory related. Is anyone else seeing this issue w/ 8gb or less memory on their machine?

Gary
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I tried my first batch conversion to tiff 16 last night, about 14 photos. To my surprise it went off without a hitch. I've had issues with SPP locking up while processing photos in SPP so I wasn't hopeful, but it worked. This was on a pc with 8gb ram.
 
I've done batch conversions on up to 300 photos without a crash. iMac with 12gb of Ram. It just takes a long long time.
 
Thanks for the feedback everyone.. I gonna have tomdigbdeeper into this. I am definitely crashing. I need to restart the spp everytime it happens. The whole application disappears from my desktop.

Gary
 
You've probably seen the same threads I have on other sites where a very few users also have SPP crash problems.

That's a bummer. Hopefully it will get better. What version OS are you using? Sometimes just upgrading to the latest OS solves a whole of accumulated problems.
 
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