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I'm not convinced that Sigma actually wants to sell cameras . .

Started May 7, 2015 | Discussions thread
jrtrent Veteran Member • Posts: 6,495
Re: I'm not convinced that Sigma actually wants to sell cameras . .
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xpatUSA wrote:

. . well after a couple of beers, I'm beginning to wonder!

OK, they take nice pictures but, after playing with my newly acquired DP1s and DP2s, I find it quite cynical that the DP1s comes with a DP1 manual and a scruffy fold-up sheet in a hundred different languages with the English bit spread across several folds to tell us the differences between the DP1s and it's predecessor.

But then, examining a raw histogram, I was amazed to see that the maximum raw level attainable with these two cameras is around 2,300 !!

I mean, the SD9 raw values can be up in the 10,000s the SD10 even higher, then the SD14 more like 9,000 and the SD1M more like a sane 4070 - which almost bears a resemblance to the ADCs output. God knows what the Quattro puts out, something different, I'm sure.

What is a "raw level"?  I recently bought a refurbished DP2s from Sigma and am quite pleased with both it and the software it uses (Sigma Photo Pro 4.2), but have no idea what these numbers mean that you posted for the various cameras.

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