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I support Streetshooter 100%. The grip makes the handling of the camera much better!Get Richards Grip here....
http://www.kleptography.com/rf/#camera_dp1
it makes all the difference in the world....
I can see where the camera slipped on the last frame.....
Nah...just kiddin'
shooter
Likewise! I also prefer the Contax G1 / G2 lenshood (or in this case, a Chinese knock-off purchased on eBay then painted black) to the Sigma version because it comes with a cap so I can keep the lens covered between shots.i found the voigtlander veiwfinder and shooting manual mode made all the difference in the world for me.
Bill, what is the lens cap you are using?I use mine in an Artisan&Artist case. Great pics by the way! I hope you learn to love the camera.
Bill
It's a Ricoh lens cap that opens up like a flower when the lens extends.Bill, what is the lens cap you are using?
I always keep either the extension tube with a protection filter, or the Ricoh lens cap on the camera since otherwise the lens is hanging out there naked just waiting to be scratched or something. The case was something I bought on a whim when I first got the DP1, and since I spent about $150 on it, I'm gonna keep using it!I also have the lenshood but don't ever use it.
It looks too professional. I'm working the tourist
again and I have to blend in.
Bill, we doin need no stinkin' fancy cases
or stinkin' lens hoods 'round here....
Good luck with that!I really do want to.....
More than anything it is the fit in my hand, and the handling in general that irritate me. Is there a way to modify the body to make it more ergonomic?
You're a better man than me brother, I could care less about sensor IQ when I don't get the image!David,
True words. The DP cameras require compromise as any other camera.
I love the GX200 but can't deal with the IQ. The DP's give the IQ
I like and I release the negative energy the camera can muster
up.
I hear you, just that my motto when it comes to cameras or any other tool is "make love not war" or I'll dump your A$$ on ebay ."One mans Heaven is another mans Hell".
I remember my beloved M4's. Pure vision and then I got 2
M6's. Those red lights made me crazy. I never used a light meter
for years and then got dependant on those red lights.
It's all about compromise. Some can, some can't...
it's a beautiful thing....
The wake-up call for me (I bought a second DP-1 during Amazon's recent $399 sale to replace the one I accidentally destroyed last summer) is that it simply can't reproduce certain shades of red even remotely accurately. I have plenty of "keepers" from my first one -- say what you will about Sigma and its cameras, but there is a certain quality of image the Foveon sensor can produce at times that is unparalled in my experience and for me, those images were worth putting up with all of its many quirks the rest of the time -- but as they say, you can't go home again, so I reluctantly returned it.The wake-up call came after 6 months of putting up with it and I didn't even have a single keeper to show for my efforts (frustrations!). Like your images here, I resorted to heavy processing to make some of them acceptable, but then it became clear putting all that effort into images which I didn't really care for and would never print is pointless, they remained mediocre at best. Are you willing to photoshop every image in this way so you can bare to look at them?