Thread: Sigma Announces DP1M (Merrill Compact) and DP2M with 15MPx3 sensor from SD1

Price of the DP Merrills is listed as Euro 3333 in GermanySigma DP2 Merrill schwarz bei PiXXASS. And I thought Leica's X1 is overpriced. What were they thinking.

I would take this with a very large pinch of salt. On the sigma.de site there is no price listed yet and the official German price for the SD1 is 2,099 EUR. Also, despite camera shopping in Germany, I've never heard of pixxass.

Does anyone expect Sigma to upgrade the VF viewfinders? I had a VF-11 for a while but could never get along with it. For my DP2X I use a CV 40mm which I really like. With the DPM's being bigger cameras, perhaps Sigma might offer new and bigger viewfinders too?

Opinions on the cameras for street photography

The Sigma DP1M and DP2M “Merrill” » Yanidel Street Photography

it's difficult to take this sort of opinion piece seriously when the "writer" has based it only on a press release and perhaps seeing a video of someone showing it at a camera show (nobody outside Sigma has actually handled one of these cameras) ... plus it's difficult to take seriously someone who describes a DP2 as "barely pocketable" -- the DPs are tiny cameras, much smaller and lighter than (e.g.) an E-P2 ...
Of course, his opinions may turn out to be correct about a niche usage of a niche camera, but at this point a piece like this is just a just waste of electrons.
(which I've just added to )

Originally Posted by pdh

it's difficult to take this sort of opinion piece seriously when the "writer" has based it only on a press release and perhaps seeing a video of someone showing it at a camera show (nobody outside Sigma has actually handled one of these cameras) ... plus it's difficult to take seriously someone who describes a DP2 as "barely pocketable" -- the DPs are tiny cameras, much smaller and lighter than (e.g.) an E-P2 ...
Of course, his opinions may turn out to be correct about a niche usage of a niche camera, but at this point a piece like this is just a just waste of electrons.
(which I've just added to )

The only take away from the article for me was his observation about the manual focus dial moving to the lens. Which I had missed noticing from the other links. Not having used either cameras, I thought it would be of interest to people who had.

yep, me too, but as he hasn't actually handled the camera, he's not in a position to comment on whether that's has a negative impact on how the camera is in use.
[I just get terribly grumpy about endless discussions about how good or bad a camera is when the people discussing it have never handled one ... the extraordinary volume of verbiage expended on the E-M5 being the prime example ... now it's released into the wild, well, it turns out to be ... a camera much like other cameras ... quelle surprise ... ]
there's still no release date for these cameras, and I doubt I'll have money to buy one (the second hand price of my dp2s will drop though the floor once they appear) .. which is the real reason I'm grumpy of course!

I've given up on trying to control my gas. Just pointing it to the past and acquiring all the film rangefinders (under a 100$) that I can get my hands on.

Good to see that some things never change

Sigma DP2 Merrill delayed till July | Photo Rumors

I was just thinking about these cameras this morning. Wondering if we'll ever see them.