On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 1:27 PM, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > Ann, the only "compact" camera with quality comparable to a DSLR presently > is the Sigma DP1. Price new about $650. I've never seen one selling used, > too new maybe. It has the quality of a DSLR and most of the drawbacks of a > compact, according to the reviews I've read. It also uses the Foveon > sensor, so it's doubtful that your existing Canon software could even come > close to properly decoding the raw data. >
Having seen a used DP1 (and tried it), it has most of the drawbacks of an old compact, the current lot are much better cameras than the DP1 apart from the sensor. It's very slow, very unresponsive, the LCD sucks (an issue when that's your only viewfinder) and generally poor handling. Sigma's managed to come up with a P&S that's less competitive than its SLR line (and that's something since the Sigma SLR's make the Pentax MZ-series seem like the pinnacle of technology) -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
