Michiel Schierbeek
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Uwe, I live in both places, although a little more in Amsterdam.
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Nice.I live in both places, although a little more in Amsterdam.
Thorkil,Hi all your dear fellows, and particular those who got both the PD1M and the DP2M.
Well, well....please listen.
I would better have liked to wait until 3 month with this question, but I can’t.
I would like to get your personal non-objective opinion of which of these two you will prefer grabbing it hasty out of the doorway.
For my part it’s obvious that the 2’ have the stellar appearance IQ-wise, colours, edge to edge sharpnes, but for my part it would seems too limiting with just a 45mm lens (perhaps..).
I don’t think the 1’ have been giving full credit here (yes, yes I know the other thread, but still) while it in my eyes have something special to offer. Not the same colours, stellar spot on, rich and lively, but more soft, old fashion, film-like, sometimes a twist more odd, a bit more grainy, a bit more special. And a 28mm wide gives something else for free, the perspective like any other 28mm.
But….Please write your thoughts just straight out of your mind…!
And while you are thinking I’m just going to buy a Ricoh GRD IV tomorrow, just to have that simple and small real-pocket-camera with wonderful quality, and that splendid way to handle it, like a mini GXR, and just so user-friendly and some more Iso, for more liberated free hand pictures, for the outmost intuitive brain-hand-camera connection….(a mini-way of my lovely M6)
And after you have written your thoughts down here, then I, after a little while, I can buy a 1M (or perhaps a 2M, we will see)
Best
Thorkil
Thanks Carl for answer.Thorkil,
I don't want to "poison" your thoughts about DP1 vs DP2 Merrill as this is a very personal, subjective decision based on how and what you like to shoot most often. However, after using both cameras now for awhile I can tell you that the one I (perhaps not you) grab most often going out the door is the DP2. This is not specific to the merits of the Sigma lenses - just that I've always had this problem with 28s. I currently have (should sell them) five 28mm RF lenses that I've used on Leica M8, m43, and NEX cameras. I never was comfortable with this focal length (adjusting for crop factors). I'm sure that Rich and others have very different experiences, as have you. Technically I think that the lens on the DP2 has a slight edge over the DP1 lens, but both are really good.
Best regards,
Carl
Amazing retow!
Curious to see what they look like in colour. You must be quiet a mountaineer!
Michiel