Sigma DP1 shipped today

[AusDLK]

Received a notification today that Amazon.com has shipped me a Sigma DP1 today.

I ordered it several months ago.

Despite the fact that I received an e-mail notification the day before that the shipment was going to be delayed until maybe July, the camera shipped within a couple of days of the estimate at the time of the order.

I look forward to seeing how this camera measures up. It will (probably) replace my GR-D.

 

[AusDLK]

First impressions out of the box:

-- big and heavy (for a P&S); difficult to use with one hand
-- camera SHREAKS for a viewfinder
-- lens grows to be quite enormous when extended

Unless I have a change of heart, I'm probably not going to keep it.

 

[kevin m]

-- lens grows to be quite enormous when extended

That seems an inevitable by-product of the big sensor: big lens. So Sigma picked f4.0 to keep the camera a reasonable size, it would seem. There's no escapin' the laws of physics. 😛