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Trying to love the DP1
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Streetshooter
Subscriber Member
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
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
fordfanjpn
Member
I use mine in an Artisan&Artist case. Great pics by the way! I hope you learn to love the camera.
Bill
Bill
I support Streetshooter 100%. The grip makes the handling of the camera much better!
Btw: imo the sigma Ha-11 hood with adapter also help to get a better grip.
Good luck,
Roel
i found the voigtlander veiwfinder and shooting manual mode made all the difference in the world for me.
wayne
www.pbase.com/wwp
wayne
www.pbase.com/wwp
Audii-Dudii
Active member
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.
Bill, what is the lens cap you are using?
fordfanjpn
Member
It's a Ricoh lens cap that opens up like a flower when the lens extends.
Here's a link to my original post with a couple more pics.
http://forum.getdpi.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4806&highlight=bling+DP1
Bill
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Streetshooter
Subscriber Member
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....
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....
fordfanjpn
Member
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!
Bill
Streetshooter
Subscriber Member
Bill,
Just kiddin'. I like the cases but they won't work with the Grip.....
That Ricoh hood is nice. I had it on the GX-200.....Do you have the mod plan for that...I lost it somewhere ....also is it the same for the 1 & 2...?
Thanks...Don
Just kiddin'. I like the cases but they won't work with the Grip.....
That Ricoh hood is nice. I had it on the GX-200.....Do you have the mod plan for that...I lost it somewhere ....also is it the same for the 1 & 2...?
Thanks...Don
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ddk
Guest
Good luck with that!
There seems to be two groups of Sigma users here, the ones who have learnt to put up with it like the few members above and the rest of us like me who couldn't deal with it. In fact, the more time I spent with the Dp-1 the more I hated it. Yes, I pimped it up with grips and finders too but that didn't help, just too frustrating a camera to use, and for what reason.
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?
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Streetshooter
Subscriber Member
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.
"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....
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.
"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....
D
ddk
Guest
You're a better man than me brother, I could care less about sensor IQ when I don't get the image!
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
.
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Audii-Dudii
Active member
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.
Alas, I forgot to cancel my preorder for the DP-2 at Amazon and have just received an email that it was shipped yesterday, several weeks earlier than expected. I will probably check it out just because, but I'm not optimistic...