SIGMA DP2Q a year in review

So I have had the camera for a little bit more than a year now. As such I find it appropriate to look back and evaluate the purchase. To be honest, as a whole, I am not really enjoying the SIGMA DP2Q.

• The camera is too big and bulky. On my last trip I brought the camera with me in my luggage. However it stayed in the luggage most of the time. A camera at home is a completely useless camera.

• The main dial have started to act up, registering input when there isn't any turning of the dial. Which makes the shutter-speed or ISO selection rather difficult as it keeps moving. I wanted to get it fixed so I contacted the company for a warranty repair which they told me I certainly could get but if they found no fault with the camera I would have to pay the troubleshooting out of my own pocket. Because the dial doesn't always act up, I don't dare to send it in for repairs.

• A lot of events and sightseeing happen at badly lit environments like indoors and at night. I am simply not able to capture satisfactory good quality images half of the time I would want to.

• There is no RAW processor that works for Linux. So the only thing left for me to do is to get the JPGs directly from the camera. For normal Cannon or Nikon cameras with common Bayer sensors there are RAW processing software available for Linux and I would very much like to use them to develop the photographs.

Thanks for your review, but it reads like a review by someone who bought the camera with no idea of its strengths and weaknesses and most appropriate uses, bought it anyways, and used it mainly for the things it was not meant to do. I'm surprised you didn't complain about the lack of video. In short, you should not have bought this camera, because it was never going to be the camera for you. You chose poorly. You don't buy a camera that has no image stabilisation, no fast lens, and poor high-ISO capability, then complain about your results "at badly lit environments like indoors and at night". A tripod might change that, but you already complained that it is too big and bulky, like you really want a pocket camera. Why on earth didn't you buy an RX100?

In particular, buying a camera that has no raw support for your computer, then blaming the camera, is unbelievable. That's like buying a car that can't be registered in your country.

Regarding the warranty issue, you just have to 'man up' and send it in. Make a short video demonstrating the issue occurring, and send it in with the camera for repair. Remind them that an intermittent fault is still a fault and must be fixed.

Lord metroid wrote:

So I have had the camera for a little bit more than a year now. As such I find it appropriate to look back and evaluate the purchase. To be honest, as a whole, I am not really enjoying the SIGMA DP2Q.

• The camera is too big and bulky. On my last trip I brought the camera with me in my luggage. However it stayed in the luggage most of the time. A camera at home is a completely useless camera.

• The main dial have started to act up, registering input when there isn't any turning of the dial. Which makes the shutter-speed or ISO selection rather difficult as it keeps moving. I wanted to get it fixed so I contacted the company for a warranty repair which they told me I certainly could get but if they found no fault with the camera I would have to pay the troubleshooting out of my own pocket. Because the dial doesn't always act up, I don't dare to send it in for repairs.

• A lot of events and sightseeing happen at badly lit environments like indoors and at night. I am simply not able to capture satisfactory good quality images half of the time I would want to.

• There is no RAW processor that works for Linux. So the only thing left for me to do is to get the JPGs directly from the camera. For normal Cannon or Nikon cameras with common Bayer sensors there are RAW processing software available for Linux and I would very much like to use them to develop the photographs.

Lord Metroid,

Reading your  "Review" I am amused that you blame the camera for your own poor judgement in making choices and I would have to agree word for word with TN Args reply to you.

I have the dp2 since it's release and it has worked flawlessy for me and as to processing images I use SPP on a Windows PC and would not expect it to work on a platform for which it was not written.

I find it hard to believe that your "Review" is serious.

S

I have replied here, rather than cross-post.