giellaleafapmu
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Dear all,
recently I have been, like many of the forum members, attracted by both the Sigma
DP1/2/3 and the Fuji X-E1 and X-Pro 1, except that what calls me is not much the great image in small package but simply the apparent ability to outperform most cameras IQ at a bargain price. I have some experience with the vintage S5 Pro from Fuji and its incredible sensor and I trust Fuji almost blindly so I am intrigued by the fact that the two Fujis I mentioned have no AA filter (or a very weak one) using a different array pattern to avoid Moire and I am also very much interested by the Merrill sensor inside the Sigma. I have been reading review, asking people and looking at prices but there are a few precise questions I could not have a complete answer to, especially about the Sigmas. I try to shortly formulate these questions.
(1.) They are both supposed to produce great images but I always hear comment about the IQ in natural light and at high iso, can anyone explain me how do the perform in the studio, shooting at low iso and with the possibility of filling shadow to have small a latitude as needed. Are under these condition any better than a "usual" modern sensor such as the Sony which can be found in Nikon, Pentax and, well, Sonys which are much more versatile? Are they closed to a FF camera (besides the bokeh which I don't care too much for).
(2.) They are slow cameras, that we know, but how is exactly the shutter lag (this is more that anything a Sigma question, I have an idea of Fujis). If one have the camera in manual everything and press the shutter button some 5 times in a second does one get the pictures at a predictable moment? (I don't too much care the kind of comparisons such as 0.01" vs 0.005" measured in a lab, just the feeling of them.)
(3.) Are they workable with flashes, I am asking this because I had a rather bad surprise with both a Pentax which I have and a Samsung which I tried which seemed to have problems with several common triggers even tough they are supposed to have standard hot-shoe mount.
(4.) Can anyone comment on the Sigma 50mm found on the DP3? This seems to be the least popular of the models and I could find very little about the lens.
I hope I was not too long and/or boring, thank in advance.
GLF
recently I have been, like many of the forum members, attracted by both the Sigma
DP1/2/3 and the Fuji X-E1 and X-Pro 1, except that what calls me is not much the great image in small package but simply the apparent ability to outperform most cameras IQ at a bargain price. I have some experience with the vintage S5 Pro from Fuji and its incredible sensor and I trust Fuji almost blindly so I am intrigued by the fact that the two Fujis I mentioned have no AA filter (or a very weak one) using a different array pattern to avoid Moire and I am also very much interested by the Merrill sensor inside the Sigma. I have been reading review, asking people and looking at prices but there are a few precise questions I could not have a complete answer to, especially about the Sigmas. I try to shortly formulate these questions.
(1.) They are both supposed to produce great images but I always hear comment about the IQ in natural light and at high iso, can anyone explain me how do the perform in the studio, shooting at low iso and with the possibility of filling shadow to have small a latitude as needed. Are under these condition any better than a "usual" modern sensor such as the Sony which can be found in Nikon, Pentax and, well, Sonys which are much more versatile? Are they closed to a FF camera (besides the bokeh which I don't care too much for).
(2.) They are slow cameras, that we know, but how is exactly the shutter lag (this is more that anything a Sigma question, I have an idea of Fujis). If one have the camera in manual everything and press the shutter button some 5 times in a second does one get the pictures at a predictable moment? (I don't too much care the kind of comparisons such as 0.01" vs 0.005" measured in a lab, just the feeling of them.)
(3.) Are they workable with flashes, I am asking this because I had a rather bad surprise with both a Pentax which I have and a Samsung which I tried which seemed to have problems with several common triggers even tough they are supposed to have standard hot-shoe mount.
(4.) Can anyone comment on the Sigma 50mm found on the DP3? This seems to be the least popular of the models and I could find very little about the lens.
I hope I was not too long and/or boring, thank in advance.
GLF
