Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/02/28

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Subject: [Leica] Sigma DP-1 test shots
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Thu Feb 28 04:43:56 2008
References: <aed41d690802271755y1f91c293l6a4a6be498fce80f@mail.gmail.com> <302611a60802271914h85956a8s357e70e0042d6472@mail.gmail.com> <20080228063832.6E61D382C347@320.hostserv.eu> <C248BA3F-8B3F-41D9-9EFA-F73845F6C54D@nathanfoto.com> <440b792d0802272303i44490872m33259cc6e555d4b5@mail.gmail.com>

You took the words right out of my mouth. The Ricoh is fine under conditions
where there is a lot of light. That, along with the incredibly slow write
time, make it a pretty inflexible camera.

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 1:03 AM, mehrdad <msadat@gmail.com> wrote:

> i have a ricoh GRD and it is really not good at anything over iso 100
> so anything that improves it is good step forward. i also saw this
> camera in action @ PMA by a beta shooter and we saw some of the shots.
> i think shooting raw and using some sort of noise remover this camera
> looks to create good usable iso 800 files. for one thing the sensor is
> a lot bigger than other P&S, also u can take look @ the sigma sd-14
> since it uses the same "cmos/cdd" or whatever else it is called for
> comparison.
>
> I am getting one these
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Nathan Wajsman <nathan@nathanfoto.com>
> wrote:
> > Also worth noting that with two exceptions, all the images are at ISO
> >  100. The two exceptions (one at ISO 400 and one at ISO 800) look to
> >  be shot in pretty well-lit environments where noise would not be that
> >  pronounced--and of course we have no idea how the images were post-
> >  processed.
> >
> >  Nathan
> >
> >
> >
> >  On 28-feb-2008, at 7:46, Didier Ludwig wrote:
> >
> >  > Exactly. I never give much attention to samples shown by the
> >  > facturer himself.
> >  > 1:1 comparisons with the GRD II will tell much more...
> >  >
> >  >> You have to ask how much post-capture processing was done
> >  >> Allen
> >  >>
> >  >>
> >  >>> No, I didn't buy one, but there are some images posted here.
> >  >>> http://www.sigma-dp1.com/jp/sample-photo/
> >  >>> Jeffery L. Smith
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >
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> >
> >  Nathan Wajsman
> >  nathan@nathanfoto.com
> >  General photography:
> >  http://www.nathanfoto.com
> >  http://www.greatpix.eu
> >  http://www.frozenlight.eu
> >  Picture-A-Week: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> >  Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog
> >
> >
> >
> >
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-- 
Jeffery L. Smith
New Orleans, LA

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