SD1 is useless

[Digital Coast Image]

If I can't edit the raws. The camera is useless.

On two of my macs I'm getting the following results when trying to edit the .X3F files.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22293060@N05/6409703797/in/photostream

Reversed colors and the last image opened still ghosting in the current opened image.

Total failure.

It is unreal that Sigma released crippled software to support a camera that doesn't even support its current set of speedlites.

I just downloaded the latest builds so until Sigma updates their software... I'm shooting with a brick.

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Michael James - http://www.digitalcoastimage.com - Destin, FL U.S.A.

 

[kuri]

so you upgraded to the latest SPP version and then now it wont work with any raws? can you roll back to an older SPP?

 

[Paul Petersen]

Did you remove the plist file from the preference library before upgrading? Also did you try a raw file from somebody who posts them like Carl R. or Bob and Olga in case the issue is with your cameras files?
Thats my 2 cents.
Pete
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[ELSELS]

Hello,

I had, (quite awhile ago), a weird "reversed" very odd colored thing happen here,
using my Sigma SD-15 and this version of SPP, processing RAW>

EXIF DATA:

Camera Manufacturer : SIGMA

Camera Model: SIGMA SD15

Software: SIGMA PhotoPro 2.5.0.3250

Image here:



I never could figure out "WHAT" caused it, yes I have later versions also of SPP...

Just the results kind of reminded me, it may be software oriented (or probably is)?

Thanks for looking,

Ed

 

[Yuknam N Lai]

Just curious about your comment on SD1 - that I don't have but may buy it in the future. Then I remember there was a SD1 raw file provided by Brittonx for the forum. I just downloaded the SPP 5.2 for my MacBook Pro with the OS X 10.5.8 and tried on Brittonx raw sample. It opened without any problem, then I converted it into jpg and uploaded the saved half size sample (as original, nothing change) as follow for your reference.





(Disclaimer: This image was provided by Brittonx for the forum as a reference to the SD1 output. Many thanks to Brittonx!)

I am actually mainly use the PC, my MacBook Pro is just for occasional reference only. Therefore I can't point out any problem with your Mac.

Cheer up!

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Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world. ~ Arnold Newman

 

[FDecker]

Michael,

Can you give access to the RAW files? This way, the community can test whether this is related to the file itself, the MacOS version, the SPP version or something else.

Frank

 

[Digital Coast Image]

I'll upload a raw later this afternoon.

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Michael James - http://www.digitalcoastimage.com - Destin, FL U.S.A.

 

[brittonx]

If I can't edit the raws. The camera is useless.

On two of my macs I'm getting the following results when trying to edit the .X3F files.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22293060@N05/6409703797/in/photostream

Reversed colors and the last image opened still ghosting in the current opened image.

-snip-

I have seen this issue only once with my SD1 and it was when I was using a very cheap CF card. The SD1 had issues writing correctly to the card. I no longer use that cheap CF card and have not seen the issue since.

I wonder if you have a corrupted X3F file...

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--Britton
http://photo.brittonrobbins.com/

 

[Digital Coast Image]

Brand new CF card. Has anyone had any issues with this one and any SDx body?

Sandisk Extreme 16gb 60mb/s UDMA

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Michael James - http://www.digitalcoastimage.com - Destin, FL U.S.A.

 

[ToasterFlyer]

If I can't edit the raws. The camera is useless.

On two of my macs I'm getting the following results when trying to edit the .X3F files.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22293060@N05/6409703797/in/photostream

Reversed colors and the last image opened still ghosting in the current opened image.

Total failure.

It is unreal that Sigma released crippled software to support a camera that doesn't even support its current set of speedlites.

I just downloaded the latest builds so until Sigma updates their software... I'm shooting with a brick.

--
Michael James - http://www.digitalcoastimage.com - Destin, FL U.S.A.

Michael,

. Sad news indeed. It would be one thing if you could be rest assured that Sigma had "pro" service to go along with their Flagship. But like all Sigma shooters you are pretty much on your own.

Rich
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[Digital Coast Image]

I just downloaded the windows build and will install it on a Win7 PC at a real estate office here locally. I have access to it for editing shoots I do for them if I like. I never use it, but will see if this is a mac build issue or X3F corruption.

FYI... it wasn't just shots from the same CF card. It was multiple shoots.

Also, the mind blowing thing was I'd open an image, it would reverse tones completely, then I'd go into a completely different folder from a shoot a few weeks back and open an image and the last image I had opened from a different folder was ghosting in the currently opened image. Both tone reversed. Kind of like shooting a multiexposure additive result.

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Michael James - http://www.digitalcoastimage.com - Destin, FL U.S.A.

 

[Digital Coast Image]

Did you remove the plist file from the preference library before upgrading?

I didn't upgrade. I said I downloaded the latest builds, but it was a fresh install of SPP.

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Michael James - http://www.digitalcoastimage.com - Destin, FL U.S.A.

 

[brittonx]

Brand new CF card. Has anyone had any issues with this one and any SDx body?

Sandisk Extreme 16gb 60mb/s UDMA

Unless the card is defective, that one shouldn't have any issues in the SD1. I have an 8GB version and it hasn't had issues. Did you format it in the camera?
--Britton
http://photo.brittonrobbins.com/

 

[Digital Coast Image]

Here's a file from some hand held shots (no OS) yd.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17075192/_SDI8226.X3F

I don't think it is a CF card corruption issue though.

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Michael James - http://www.digitalcoastimage.com - Destin, FL U.S.A.

 

[Digital Coast Image]

Yes, it went from the brand new box and into the SD1 and formatted there and has not been used with anything but the SD1.

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Michael James - http://www.digitalcoastimage.com - Destin, FL U.S.A.

 

[Digital Coast Image]

The mac specs of the 2008 MacPro systems I'm running SPP5.2 on:

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
Memory: 12 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz

I have two of these I loaded it on. Both are running OS 10.6.8

One system I have here at home and one I keep at a real estate office where they give me space to edit. They do so seeing as I shoot so many rental units for them. The bottom line is I can't run SPP5.2 on either. Same specs for both except the one here at home I have 12 gigs of ram, but only 4 gigs of ram in the one at the real estate office.

I'm getting this reversal of files and then ghosting of the last image opened in the next opened image for every shot.

I had done all my prior editing of SD1 shots with a newer 2009 iMac. But it is my father's and he just got down from the north for his winter stay so he swung by and picked up his mac this weekend. Hence why I then loaded SPP5.2 on both my other macpro systems to find out that I can't run SPP5.2 successfully on either.

Both of the MacPro's I paid extra at time of the purchase for Apple to install an upgraded graphics card. The following.... and it shows my monitor in the profile too:

Chipset Model: ATY,RadeonX1900
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 512 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x7249
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-A52027-140
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.140
Displays:
VX2433wm:
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 @ 60 Hz
Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)

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Michael James - http://www.digitalcoastimage.com - Destin, FL U.S.A.

 

[BobNL]

File works perfectly OK here. iMac i7 with 12GB RAM, OSX 10.7.2.

You might want to try to delete everything Sigma related from both the libraries, system and user and try a fresh install.
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[Pete Stavrakoglou]

I've downloaded your file and it works fine on my Wondows system. That rules out a bad CF card.
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[mike earussi]

Here's a file from some hand held shots (no OS) yd.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17075192/_SDI8226.X3F

I don't think it is a CF card corruption issue though.

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Michael James - http://www.digitalcoastimage.com - Destin, FL U.S.A.

Except for being slightly out of focus, it looks good to me (opened in Windows 7 64 bit).



full size: http://www.pbase.com/mikeearussi/image/139934106

I think you might have a Mac problem instead (BTW, if you don't want your SD1 I'll be happy to take it off your hands).

 

[Roland Karlsson]

The SPP software have had a similar problem some time ago.

Then it was a faulty initialisation of memory.

So ... the first image you loaded was OK ... but the rest was like this.

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Roland

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(Sleeping - so the need to support it is even higher)

X3F tools : http://www.proxel.se/x3f.html