Airing my Sigma dp2s (made in 2010)
The dp2s is a point and shoot camera with a 20.7 x 13.8 mm 5 MP Foveon X3 sensor. It's actually pretty good. Certainly when compare to other point & shoot camera from its era, but even compared to modern cameras. The sensor is large for a compact camera. Sigma billed it as 14 MP because unlike Bayer sensors, it does not interpolate between adjacent pixels as the red, green and blue sensitive layers are stacked sandwich-wise. It must have been rather expensive when it came out.
There is a dial to select between M, S A and P modes and it has a AEL button - which is not at all the standard for compact cameras.
Even the autofocus can be switched off and there is a dial for manual focusing. So if you want you can operate this camera fully manually. If focuses down to 28 cm. Typically for all Sigma dp cameras, the lens, which has a focal length of 24.2 mm, is very good.
The body, as is also the case with the later DP Merrill cameras, is made of metal, not plastic, so the camera has a nice, solid feel to it. Compared to the dp Merrills, the battery lasts a lot longer.
Airing my Sigma dp2s (made in 2010)
The dp2s is a point and shoot camera with a 20.7 x 13.8 mm 5 MP Foveon X3 sensor. It's actually pretty good. Certainly when compare to other point & shoot camera from its era, but even compared to modern cameras. The sensor is large for a compact camera. Sigma billed it as 14 MP because unlike Bayer sensors, it does not interpolate between adjacent pixels as the red, green and blue sensitive layers are stacked sandwich-wise. It must have been rather expensive when it came out.
There is a dial to select between M, S A and P modes and it has a AEL button - which is not at all the standard for compact cameras.
Even the autofocus can be switched off and there is a dial for manual focusing. So if you want you can operate this camera fully manually. If focuses down to 28 cm. Typically for all Sigma dp cameras, the lens, which has a focal length of 24.2 mm, is very good.
The body, as is also the case with the later DP Merrill cameras, is made of metal, not plastic, so the camera has a nice, solid feel to it. Compared to the dp Merrills, the battery lasts a lot longer.