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I got an article published about the dp2q on SLRlounge
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Lord metroid
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Very nice articl...
Love how you showed your lighting setup and I loved your discourse regarding the camera compared to other. It didn't come as aggressively fandom but as a very neutral and grounded article.
Love how you showed your lighting setup and I loved your discourse regarding the camera compared to other. It didn't come as aggressively fandom but as a very neutral and grounded article.
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Richard Franiec
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Very nice, Paul.
Congratulations.
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Congratulations.
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Nice work Paul. I wish you had included more information about special features of the new camera, some specifications that include extras, like others DON'T include, such as lens diameter, lens lengths at closest and infinity focus ranges, memory card write speed, USB port speed (i.e. How fast do photos come out of the card, when using the USB port instead of swapping out the card?), strobe recycle time (e.g. My Sony R1 would take a long time to be ready with a follow-up shot, when shooting with a remote trigger and studio strobes. The strobes would be ready in less than a second, but the camera would take 3 to 5 seconds to be ready, even though the in-camera flash was not being used. I wonder if this is the case with the Sigma DP2 Quattro.), start-up time, battery life, battery recharge time, etc. There is so much I would like to know about the DP2 Quattro, but haven't seen put into any review. Photos of the review screen would be nice. So would a handling and menu system experience video (you could show what it's like to shoot with the camera and operate the functions).
I really like how you described the metal dials. How do the buttons feel? I saw a video that shows the power button glowing. That was cool. There is a lot more to the DP2 Quattro than people have been told.
Your image samples are good examples, and the 100% views are very cool. I like your comparison to the other camera too. Great work!
I really like how you described the metal dials. How do the buttons feel? I saw a video that shows the power button glowing. That was cool. There is a lot more to the DP2 Quattro than people have been told.
Your image samples are good examples, and the 100% views are very cool. I like your comparison to the other camera too. Great work!
Meuh
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This was my first time doing an article for SLRlounge so I wanted to keep it at a reasonable length, also I'm not that great at writing/wording what I want to say at times and had some help from my friend Moritz Schwertner.Nice work Paul. I wish you had included more information about special features of the new camera, some specifications that include extras, like others DON'T include, such as lens diameter, lens lengths at closest and infinity focus ranges, memory card write speed, USB port speed (i.e. How fast do photos come out of the card, when using the USB port instead of swapping out the card?), strobe recycle time (e.g. My Sony R1 would take a long time to be ready with a follow-up shot, when shooting with a remote trigger and studio strobes. The strobes would be ready in less than a second, but the camera would take 3 to 5 seconds to be ready, even though the in-camera flash was not being used. I wonder if this is the case with the Sigma DP2 Quattro.), start-up time, battery life, battery recharge time, etc. There is so much I would like to know about the DP2 Quattro, but haven't seen put into any review. Photos of the review screen would be nice. So would a handling and menu system experience video (you could show what it's like to shoot with the camera and operate the functions).
I really like how you described the metal dials. How do the buttons feel? I saw a video that shows the power button glowing. That was cool. There is a lot more to the DP2 Quattro than people have been told.
Your image samples are good examples, and the 100% views are very cool. I like your comparison to the other camera too. Great work!
The button's feel nice, there are a lot of nice touches like how the power button is recessed a little into the body while the mode button beside it sits flat so you can feel by touch if your using the right one.
As for the lens, the actual element is pretty small compared to the lens barrel and while it moves when focusing the length of the lens body dosn't grow or recess, frames per second is around 3?, its not something I paid much attention to as I slow down when using these cameras and while it still takes while to write the raws to the SD card (I was using a slowish card) you can still shoot while the camera is doing this till you fill the buffer which is seven frames.
The menus of the Sigma DP's are pretty simple and easy to use, navigate.. the newer Quick Menu of the Quattro lets you change shooting modes (including interval timer), iso, wb and such things pretty quickly.
I'm not sure on the battery life, I spent a bit of time just messing around with the camera but it was a lot longer than the merrills and the battery meter is also much more accurate.
All good points you have made which I will try to keep in mind if I get the chance to do such a thing again.
I was out shooting with my dp1m yesterday and totally missed the Quattro's grip
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justascot
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Good Article.
On a sidenote, i'm bummed I didn't make it to the Games in the summer. After five years of living in the States I didn't see how I would get to go to Glasgow when they were on, then life took a turn and I ended up back in the UK but somehow I got swamped with work and I couldn't make it up - damn shame it looked like fun.
On a sidenote, i'm bummed I didn't make it to the Games in the summer. After five years of living in the States I didn't see how I would get to go to Glasgow when they were on, then life took a turn and I ended up back in the UK but somehow I got swamped with work and I couldn't make it up - damn shame it looked like fun.
Kendall Helmstetter Gelner
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Nice article, and good job photographing that grey bird which puts at least one old issue to rest.
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Raist3d
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Concise and to the point, good to see someone with talent using the camera and mention the good and the bad, even if not as thorough in "all situations" but you mention those you cared for or you think would be a good match for.
Thanks for shooting the shots, writing the review, sharing it.
Meuh
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The flash's were triggers with either a lencarta trigger (the studio stuff) using lencarta smart flash's (mark1) studio lights and the location stuff was a bowens radio trigger firing an old Qflash with the speed lights firing optically if their was more than one light.
My lighting stuff is all pretty old and both radio triggers seemed to work upto around 1/1250 but at a loss of a lot of flash power, I feel with better triggers or connecting by wire would get me faster results as their would be no radio trigger delay.. I did get a strong off camera flash at 1/2000 using a flash on camera to trigger.
Meuh
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I didn't actually see any of the games except on tv, I did enjoy the opening ceremony though which is rather strange as I used to work in that industry for years and found it hard to look at them in a positive way
Meuh
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Here's a S-HI uncropped version of the parrot shot, full size.. feel free to look around, its pretty crazy the lack of moire and the details (ofc the non S-hi looks more detailed per pixel).
This is what a weak AA filter bayer does to my parrots feathers, I didn't put that in the review as distance to subject and lots of other things can show change moire.
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