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a rather useless SIGMA update on dp2x

Started Mar 14, 2012 | Discussions thread
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Harold66
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a rather useless SIGMA update on dp2x

Hello everyone

While discussing on this forum the merits of the newly announced sigma DP2-M ( sorry nobody is going to call them Merrill), I was informed that there was an update of Sigma that allows to record simutaneous raw+ jpeg with the dp2x

As most Black & white photographers , I use raw+jpeg on ALL my cameras as it allows me to post-visualize my image on the LCD in BW as I envisioned my images

so I was thrilled to get this firmware update... until I found out that with the new raw+jpeg does not allow the jpeg in BW with the raw untouched
even turning down the saturation does not turn the image into B&W

which in fact makes it a pretty useless update . I have not checked what influence on the speed of writing files in raw only versus raw+jpeg but it makes the update a rather useless ones

Frankly the SIGMA is not famous for the quality of its jpeg conversion . so other than having emergency jpeg when you do not have sigma photo pro to open , I doubt that this is going to be very used option

in my opinion there were FOUR significant cons on the dp2x for BW street photography.
Now it maybe we have more still FOUR ( although different) with the Dp2M

Harold

Harold

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