Sigma Sigma DP Series Image Thread

[Lawrence A.]

I really want a Merrill, but the budget says "NO" for the being, so the DP2S will have to do. It's a nice camera in its own right, but the Merrill seems to be in a league of its own. Still, I was glad I had the lowly S on my hip as I passed these objects, which caught my eye.

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[digi2ap]

Another from the DP1X:

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Broadness Marsh Moorings by Anthony Palmer

 

[ivoire]

Blue Springs Park panorama with the DP2M

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[Chris2500dk]

My Mexican Dwarf Crayfish "Pinchy".

Shot with my DP2S with off camera flash (Metz 36 C-2 lying on the top glass of the fishtank triggered by Metz 20 C-2 on the camera pointing upwards) and a Raynox DCR-250 closeup filter.
The little guy is surprisingly fast moving and the DP2S isn't exactly fast focusing so I set the minimum focus distance, measured by eye and shot away hoping I'd get a good one.
I think I succeeded

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Dp1m

 

[Woody112704]

Blue Springs Park panorama with the DP2M

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Nice set. Such a beautiful place, I want to go back there sometime and hopefully I will get a nice sunny day when I do. I was there in April this year, got some great shots. I have an Olympus Epl-5 and posted some over in the Mu-43 forums if you wanna check it out. Trip last month to Blue Springs Park in Florida (Very Image Heavy)

 

[Lawrence A.]

My DP2 Merrill is on the way - Yay!! -- from Luke. And my DP2S, of blessed memory, is on its way to a new home.

I'm so excited about getting the Merrill. I wanted one before I bought the 2S on a budget, and once I used the Foveon sensor, I knew a Merrill (or two or three) was in my future. Limited, yes, but incomparable within their range, which is where I shoot about 90 percent of what do.

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[Bugatsu]

Hello all, I'm new here! Couple of my Sigma DP1 photos:

 

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[Lawrence A.]

Broccoli Romanesco

At the food co-op with the newly acquired DP2 Merrill.

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[ivoire]

Went for pizza tonite and walked off a bit of it in the 35f weather. Used benches, window sills, trash cans, steps and posts as "tripods" in manual mode, with 2sec delay at iso100 f8 for all but one. The candy store was f2.8, 100iso, 1/25thsec, handheld. Imo this camera is more versatile than reviews make it out to be.

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[Lawrence A.]

Do the crime; do the the time.

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[Lawrence A.]

Sigma Photo Pro and Lightroom

I've tried to like Sigma Photo Pro, but I just can't get there. It was slow enough with the files from the DP2S, and I usually developed the raw files from that camera in Lightroom, but of course you don't have that option with the various Merrills.

On my i3 computer with 8gigs of RAM trying to adjust from the raw files and process them to 16 bit tiffs in SPP is just too damned painful. Instead I check the files I want to keep and batch export them unchanged as 16 bit tiffs (which in itself takes forever, but at least it's then on auto pilot), then import those in Lightroom, where I make the adjustments. As an experiment, I took one file that needed a bit of WB work, and made too tiffs. First I exported it, unchanged and then developed that tiff in Lightroom and saved it, then I made adjustments and exported another 16 bit tiff directly from SPP.

I cannot see any reason not to use Lightroom on high grade tiffs to "develop" my files from this camera. The files look the same to me.

Developed in Sigma Photo Pro and fine tuned in Photoshop

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And an unchanged raw to tiff from spp then developed in Lightroom and adjusted in Photoshop

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All Photoshop adjustments were identical between the two files.

 

[BruPri]

I use LR for WB adjustments, cropping, and cataloging. I also use Iridient to batch process the RAW files, then import into LR...

 

[Lawrence A.]

I use LR for WB adjustments, cropping, and cataloging. I also use Iridient to batch process the RAW files, then import into LR...

I'm using a PC, so Iridient isn't available to me; wish it were, though. It sounds like a very useful tool for these Merrill raw files.

 

[Lawrence A.]

Details from mural, Nob HIll, Albuquerque, NM

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[Lawrence A.]

I put this up in a thread dedicated to the San Jose del El Rosario cemetery, but thought I'd include it here too, as it is a shot taken within an hour of getting the Merrill (Thanks, Luke, for shipping it with a charged battery!)

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[Lawrence A.]

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