Sigma DP1: a GRD alternative

[jtzordon]

Fuji should put out something like this with S5 sensor. We'd really be talking then!

 

[ghost]

i'm not going to buy it, but it's great to see the big sensor digicam market opening up.

 

[fgianni]

I don't know a lot about these things, but it seems to me that the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2 is a better alternative to the GRD as a serious, compact P&S.

I have an LX1 and I did chose it above the GRD, but still horribly noisy even at ISO 200.
If the sensor in the Sigma is any good, and the camera reasonably compact, we really are on another planet.

 

[fgianni]

Foveon sensors traditionally showed weird colour shifts at high ISOs and required you to shoot everything in RAW. Read DPReview's review of the Sigma SD9 and SD10. Hence I'm a bit hesitant about this.

I shoot everything in RAW anyway, so it's not a problem for me, let's hope the High ISO performance has improved, but even if it hasn't, we are still miles away from a tiny 1/1.8" sensor.

 

[ywenz]

Can the other serious P&S cams match the GRD in film-grainess?

800iso

http://static.flickr.com/112/253051231_d0cc887386_o.jpg

64iso
http://static.flickr.com/88/250083595_b42a33b41a_o.jpg

 

[fgianni]

I wonder what are the W and T buttons on the back doing, since the camera appears to have no zoom.

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/photokina2006/Sigma/IMG_0424.jpg

 

[ywenz]

Digital Zoom, obviously...