Here is a brief user review with photos of the first 24 hours with the DP1 - pros and cons.
http://saidkarlsson.com/blog/?page_id=177
http://saidkarlsson.com/blog/?page_id=177
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Many thanks for your sample shots. I think I now made my decision on whether I should buy a DP-1 or not: I recently bought a Ricoh GR-DII and use it for b+w extensively. I also have a Sigma SD 14. This puts me in a rather unique position about the DP-1. I love the vivid colours of the Foveon sensor in the Sigma, but as you've pointed out, the jpegs are usually not good. This means that I shall stick to my Ricoh in the near future for street photography and resort to taking RAW shots with the SD 14 when I feel the urge.Here is a brief user review with photos of the first 24 hours with the DP1 - pros and cons.
http://saidkarlsson.com/blog/?page_id=177
Same thing on the Fuji's for me. I bought the F20 as a low light backup and never use it. Most annoying small camera I've used. The interface just drives me nuts.The DP1 in my opinion has the same problem that the F30 had, great sensor but shame about the rest.
How right you are. Both Sigma and Fuji deserve criticism for their awkward menus. But image-wise, my F31 sometimes delivers.Same thing on the Fuji's for me. I bought the F20 as a low light backup and never use it. Most annoying small camera I've used. The interface just drives me nuts.
I played with it and did not like it at all and would say it's worse than the F30. It has no Adj. or Function button so to change ISO or WB you need to go to the menu (It does not allow for direct b&w shooting or anything else more "advanced"). The menu responds slow and it is light blue/white over a live image so you might not be able to see properly until you point the camera to something dark.Is the DP-1 as bad?
Has anyone played with it directly?
I played with it and did not like it at all and would say it's worse than the F30. It has no Adj. or Function button so to change ISO or WB you need to go to the menu (It does not allow for direct b&w shooting or anything else more "advanced"). The menu responds slow and it is light blue/white over a live image so you might not be able to see properly until you point the camera to something dark.
To change exposure you need to press the EV button and then use the left/right arrows. For shutter speed it's with the left/right arows when in manual mode and apreture is by pressing the EV button first.
Changing focus mode is easy with the up arrow and the same goes for flash with the down arrow. Changing the focus point is again going through the menu and maybe go down till the 2nd page depending on what you want to change.
The zoom buttons do nothing other than enable digital zoom or zoom during playback so are useless for most of the time. Here I really hope that Sigma provides a firmware update to assign them a different task like Ricoh did.
My sentiments exactly! IQ is obviously important. But it is the UI that to me makes the camera fun and instinctive to use.Pity they couldn't just clone the Ricoh UI! lol
Kind Regards
Brian