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How reliable are the DP Merrills?

Started Aug 7, 2013 | Questions thread
glacierpete Senior Member • Posts: 1,917
Re: How reliable are the DP Merrills?
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manaskarekar wrote:

Are there are any known issues with DP merrills that show up from time to time?

Sadly I bought used and don't think I'm covered by the 4 year warranty, so this is a concern for me.

How have the DP cameras held up in the past? I know some people reported lens being stuck for the original DP cameras.

Help appreciated!

The DPxM cameras are very well built. Sigma sees them as a kind of flagship with strict quality control. Never had a problem with mine. Never seen the banding some people mentioned. Usually these people posting hearsay and don't even own one.

Historicly leaf shutters have a more limited life time compared to focal plane shutters. OTOH they do have plenty of other advantages.

Given their 65mb raw files size, these cameras are not used for machine gun like shooting and a huge number shutter actuations anyway.

When you use the camera within it's limits at base iso and preferebly tripod based, you get a tool producing an image quality coming close to a D800 with good lens, for a fraction of the price and weight.

The bayer matrix is simply outdated, and Sony and others already filed patents for multilayer sensor layouts.

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