Thanks all, I will try to get the IR filter to make a test
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Yes, Lee. How may I help you?Anyone here using the SD1M with the 'kit' lens, 17-50mm OS?
Lee
Yes, Lee. How may I help you?
Ted
Hmm, quite a lot to consider! I do have an SD1M with a 17-50mm on it. Less than 300 shots on it. The 17-50mm shoots well for my purposes and is a constant f/2.8 as you know. But lately, I've been picking up the SD14 again, because of it's smaller X3F files.Hi Ted
I guess I was thinking that if I wanted to expand into more Foveon beyond my DP2M and had decided that Quattro was not my bag, then the next obvious choice is SD1M or SD15, I guess. The trouble is that, whilst it would be nice to have a proper viewfinder with Foveon, this path leads to increased weight, less ability to hand hold because of SLR mirror and the quagmire of having to choose the 'right' lenses again. Not to mention probably battling with front/back focus issues. So my thoughts drifted to the SD1M and some 'reasonably' priced walk-around lens. And then maybe expand into the 'Art' lenses at a later date. Again, more expense and weight and not necessarily that the results would be 'better' than I get from the DP2M.
Lee
Hello Lee,Hi Ted
I guess I was thinking that if I wanted to expand into more Foveon beyond my DP2M and had decided that Quattro was not my bag, then the next obvious choice is SD1M or SD15, I guess. The trouble is that, whilst it would be nice to have a proper viewfinder with Foveon, this path leads to increased weight, less ability to hand hold because of SLR mirror and the quagmire of having to choose the 'right' lenses again. Not to mention probably battling with front/back focus issues. So my thoughts drifted to the SD1M and some 'reasonably' priced walk-around lens. And then maybe expand into the 'Art' lenses at a later date. Again, more expense and weight and not necessarily that the results would be 'better' than I get from the DP2M.
What I *really* want is a Merrill sensor inside a Fuji X100T body, complete with conversion lenses.
LOL
Lee
Hi HulyssHello Lee,
So what to do ? What to choose ?
Yea, photography market is pretty boring actually. When new "cool" things hit the market at 3500 £ without lens, it is what I call a non excitement I hope that next year we will see some move and will have all more fun. It seems to be common to all brands actually.Hi Hulyss
Thanks for your lengthy reply. I think I had already decided and your reply just reinforces that feeling that 'life is just too short' for all this messing about, especially when the gains are minimal. A year ago I had all three DP Merrills but realised I wasn't using the '1' and the '3' very much, so sold them on to concentrate on adding to my Fuji kit. I regret that to a degree and may end up buying one or both back again (maybe) but I think that, after my recent foray again into the Foveon world, I realise that my DP2M is probably enough for now and that my Fuji gear can co-exist quite nicely with it. At least that's how I feel today ...
Lee
Hi Darr,I started this thread for other Sigma SD1 shooters to share their work. It was never intended for non-current SD1 shooters to use this thread for complaints.
Well... I do not possess such gear but many, including me, know what "High Quality" photographic files are, was, and will be (because we use this gear). You have a beautiful gear and that mean nothing in legitimacy you know, IMHO. How much men and women own tremendous gear and produce crap ?
It's not your case but we can show examples if we want, you know it. So, showing off material isn't the point here. I have a LOT of experience with SIGMA gear I'm sure I have legitimacy to tell yes or no about a piece of Sigma gear. You are a Merrill generation. I seen you luring Sigma gear, I seen you buying Sigma gear and starting to produce photography work with Sigma gear. Many years after I bought my first Sigma camera. The thing is I know the brand (maybe too much, thus my deception sometimes). I completely understand you when you have fun with your cameras BUT:
You never seen me pushing what I did with Sigma gear over the years to endorse my posts or statements. My work with Sigma went on National television, France2, on one of the most watched French Saturday night program (Million and millions of spectators). Before that it went on an another private television, M6, and it got 4 Million spectators at least; it was by the time of the SD15 and the brand new 17-50 constant f2.8 EX zoom. It also went into CD cover and poster of some European rock bands + many European celebrity went through my foveon Eye. You didn't knew it ? Personally I find it stupid. I do not feel any sort of proudness by saying it, really.
You do not have to show off you stuff and college graduations to have my respect or my hear, you have my respect even when posting nothing so, you see, I'm over this. I hope you understand.
I'm not here to desperately rant the same song again and again, even if it look like it for the usual suspects over here. I'm here as a warning/reminder for the newcomers. I will never teach, as the date of today, someone to buy a Sigma dslr. It would be a fault. I'm not here to let my "passion" speak, I'm here to speak about 2015 photographer's LOGIC especially when it come about MONEY. I'm a very passionate guy, yes, my life is about imagery. But every of my words / post are maturely thought, aiming the factual truth without passion but instead with wide-open eyes.
I have in my hands, at this very moment, a little plastic fantastic Nikon F65. I'm cleaning it because I use it a lot. This camera is EASIER to use than the SD1, to produce photography (not coffee). This is not to piss ppl off, this is actually the factual truth. You can completely trust this camera, exposure and focus. Photography have never been easier and cheaper (and full frame by the way).
It work with the latest G lenses I own and even screw-drive lenses. This is just awesome, ant it is ridiculously light weight, more than an A7 camera.
The SD1 is a "modern" expensive Digital SLR. As all modern digital SLR we need contrast detect focus, at least as a second chance if we run into problems. The SD1 do not have it and this is plain dangerous for a work. I went into this situation, I worked as a pro with Sigma gear and I had some unfortunate problems on the field (misfocus into paint reproduction). Hopefully I had a B plan but... I imagine a landscape photographer, today in 2015, making DIGITAL landscape photography with a SD1 ONLY... error. It can result in a disastrous disappointment. The SD1 isn't a camera you can TRUST. The very old Nikon F65 is a camera you can trust. Sad but TRUE. The DP (every generations) are cameras you can trust.
I do not want to see someone coming here in the next few months, saying "hello I just bought a SD1 I wanna share pics with you". If it is an EXPERIENCED photographer who have money to waste (and even then ...) I might understand ... or not. An experienced photographer know that the foveon power lye into the DP and the Sigma power into the lenses but not into the SD line.
So, some of you do have fun with the SD1 and buy Sigma SA mount lenses. That's fine, you bought it at a time it was "en Vogue". Hopefully we are able to factory convert the mount if necessary. Continue to share the good work but make the nuance : Someone asked a question, I just answered the question, Russian style I admit, but I answered the question with the technical truth based on experience. Not my personal and passionate opinion. Just photographer and technician experience.
So, I enjoy photography, I enjoy many brands including Sigma and I have enough material to do what I want to do. But I'm not a brand guy. I just use what is working and put money spent into the balance.
I fly off the handle with words when I see a SoCalled "community" lying to themselves and endorsing huge brand errors/regressions. I fly off the handle with words when I see the most valuable and professional websites around the world mocking Sigma, so destroying every bit of reputation gained the past few years with the DP Merrill awesomeness.
If the "community" would have admitted the truth, without denial, about the Quattro regression in file quality, if the community was a real lucid and pragmatic pack, Sigma would have made public explanations about it, since months, trying to reassure the user base. Without this tinny user base, Sigma camera do not exist. In + Sigma CEO say that he is here to listen us, the user base... So it is maybe time (or too late) to pack again, saying the truth and making the brand evolution. This is my job.
English isn't my first language thus I might have difficulty to defend my opinion with political class.