zzzxtreme
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Hi guys. What are thoughts about dp2x in 2017? What is it good for and what's bad about it? What do you use it for and when?
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Do you still use dp2x ?
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absquatulate
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It's the only camera I really regretted selling, they're rare as Hens teeth now. Just like any other Foveon camera, it's not for fast shooting, but it had the best colour of all the foveon cameras I've ever had, and cloud rendering was really good on mine as well. It was also pretty resistant to flair by foveon standards, but when you did get it then it was not objectionable, more likely to be usable creatively. It has a slow start up time and makes a weird noise when firing up, like a Dinosaur in pain (use Jurassic park for reference). It's very small with excellent IQ, a truly carry everywhere camera, I miss mine even now. The main issue to be aware of is that the ribbon cable connecting the lens to the Motherboard breaks over time, it's the cameras biggest weak point, though it can be replaced by all accounts. The fault is caused by the ribbon cable weakening when the lens extends and retracts over time.
Some examples for you from mine.
zzzxtreme
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Those are amazing!
Thanks!
Sigma vamrra are elusive in Malaysia. One guy is selling it
Thanks!
Sigma vamrra are elusive in Malaysia. One guy is selling it
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Thanks, I wouldn't go that far but I'll take the compliment
I'm chasing one down at the moment, fingers crossed.
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Typo: Sigma *cameras
Jim Beverlin
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Still have mine but I use in it's place a DPM2. Two of the best images I have ever taken were via a DP2X. I may resurrect my DP2X.
Con: no viewfinder and the LCD is useless in bright light. Makes manual focus quite difficult. I would not take it anywhere without a viewfinder (e.g. Sigma VF-21) in the hot-shoe.
Con: No articulating LCD. When you own a Panasonic such as mine, the difference is very obvious.
Con: built-in flash not overly powerful. I bought a Metz C-20 for indoor shots.
The Big Pro: Of my several Sigmas, my DP2s consistently takes "better" shots than the others. Helluva lens.
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Has anyone come across a Photoshop filter that would convert my DP2M images to look like the older Sigma DP2X images with their richly saturated colors?
I don't use PS but try Gaussian blur maybe 0.7 px or less followed by increased saturation in the shadows/mid
It's not the saturation but the colourspace that are different.
See: https://www.flickr.com/photos/prebenr/sets/72157634524714567/
Very good comparison examples indeed. But my guess is that they are all in the sRGB color space so perhaps it is the conversion from cam space to RGB that varies?
A problem with Sigma is that every camera model has a different cam to XYZ conversion matrix to any other, whereas the sensor spectral response varies but little from model to model.
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Still love my DP2s -- compact, light, fun and easy to shoot with. Many quirks and issues, like no VF, etc, but overall I get lots of good shots with it and love the "original" Foveon look to the images. I shoot mostly landscape and always happy with the results.
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