Unboxing of the DP2M ... sooo disappointing!

[doolittle]

Yep Sigma and any other company that keeps packaging to a minimum have to be applauded. After all "the box don't take the pictures".....it's the box inside the box, with the lens attached that does that 😀

Unless of course the product is a pinhole camera, in which case the tag line could be "the box takes the pictures"

/I'll get my coat

ps Keith, what no link to your unboxing video?

 

[jonal928]

Congratulation,
You got yourself a good camera, with such performers, that just few others
(cameras) can achieve.
Enjoy it

 

[btgc]

So you're suggesting that my white Sigma box will be worth very little on eBay in the future then? 😀

Unless it's limited run of unique to Sigma 3 layer Foveon carton - no other company can do that 😀

 

[Michael Markey]

It's been repeatedly demonstrated that, except in rare cases, irony does not work for internet communications. It is funny though, so well worth the effort.

I never believed that but its been amply demonstrated here. 🙄

 

[Keith]

I never believed that but its been amply demonstrated here. 🙄

It's ok Michael ... I've accepted the fact that I'm just a whiner.

I always suspected it! 😛

 

[Michael Markey]

You must have caught from us Poms 🙂

 

[louisb]

I agree - a totally crap box and butt-ugly camera styling.

Thank goodness that the camera itself actually out-performs every digital camera I have ever owned (even the one in my pciture - left).

LouisB

 

[Sparrow]

It's ok Michael ... I've accepted the fact that I'm just a whiner.

I always suspected it! 😛

Not at all ... personally if I've wasted good money on a premier brand product I expect some of it to be squandered on redundant packaging ... how else am I supposed to justify the purchase?

 

[Keith]

Not at all ... personally if I've wasted good money on a premier brand product I expect some of it to be squandered on redundant packaging ... how else am I supposed to justify the purchase?

Leica have tried to be fair by supplying a redundant camera (M8 etc) ... is that not near enough for you?

 

[Sparrow]

... well the special editions aren't bad but the ordinary ones fell way short of even what Nikon were doing with their new RF's

 

[MickH]

Sadly I have a few very busy days ahead of me and would prefer not to distract myself until I've finished my chores! I've decided my attitude to this camera should mirror Sigma's ... 'steady as she goes!' Taking an impulsive snap of something is all very well when you get a new camera but seriously, what does it achieve? I know it has a great IQ that will suit landscape and still life superbly and I'm content in that knowledge. 🙂

Surely you can spare a minute or two to photograph this piss-poor packaging that you're wingeing about? You should man up and post some illustrative shots instead of starting such a thread and leaving it hanging. How are we to judge without evidence?

People like you really annoy me.

 

[jsrockit]

Come on Keith... the font used on the packaging is exquisite. 🙂

 

[Keith]

Surely you can spare a minute or two to photograph this piss-poor packaging that you're wingeing about? You should man up and post some illustrative shots instead of starting such a thread and leaving it hanging. How are we to judge without evidence?

People like you really annoy me.

Short arms and deep pockets eh?

Buy one and see for yourself!

 

[paulfish4570]

you guys are hilarious! 🙂

 

[MickH]

Short arms and deep pockets eh?

I'm not a Yorkshireman you know!

 

[t.s.k.]

I'd complain loudly to Sigma. Mine came with a special gift.

An exotic dancer popped out of my box...yes, she was female.
Hmmm, she looked female.
How they did it, I wasn't about to ask. 😉

 

[Sejanus.Aelianus]

Of course, if you had bought it from a proper camera shop, it would have been delivered by a man in morning coat and top hat, wearing white gloves, who would have placed it on the table in front of you with the care of an archeologist handling a Pharonic scroll.

I mean, packaging. Just how crass can one get?

😀

 

[Michael Markey]

Has it got red eye reduction .... if not send it back and get a proper camera..

 

[btgc]

Has it got red eye reduction .... if not send it back and get a proper camera..

Merril DP's are all right with red eye....they removed built-in flash to solve root cause 🙂

 

[Archlich]

Won't get any worse than my Grado earphone anyway.