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Sports / Wildlife - shooting - 1/8000th sec, SD1M (Merrill)...

Started Nov 20, 2016 | Discussions thread
PanoMax
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Re: Sports / Wildlife - shooting - 1/8000th sec, SD1M (Merrill)...

larryj wrote:

Hi Ed:

I have no trouble shooting wildlife with my Sigma Cameras. In my early life I shot Sports shots with a twin lens Rolliecord. I guess I do not understand people who talk about how slow the Sigma camera is and it's poor auto-focus. We did not have that 'good' stuff in the old film days and still got good shots. I attach here a few wild life shots done with the Sigma SD1M. Don't let anyone say the you can not shoot wildlife with Sigma Cameras!

Great images, Larry.

I'm still considering an SD1 (pending the release of the Quattro H)

If the image quality can match that of my DP3 Merrill, which uses the same Foveon sensor as the SD1, then it should produce outstanding results.   I'm used to using Manual settings for nearly all of my images.  Of course, a tripod is almost a necessary tool with these cameras.

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