What Photo Gear

Yes, you read right, some lucky soul has an online “review” of the Sigma DP1 up on the world wide web - but, but? But what? Yes, there’s a but - unfortunately it’s not in English. But - yet another but - it has quite a few sample images, and that’s really what’s most important isn’t it?

Just point your browser here. The site is a bit wonky, and the images do take awhile to load. Also, after all the sample images with all the robots, there should be more sample images featuring a lovely female model as well as some landscape shots. If you’re running Mozilla Firefox, you should see the first image with the model load - then you have to click your middle mouse button and scroll through the images. If you’re running Internet Explorer, it might need a few hits to your ‘refresh button’ to load.

Although the site seems to be more of a Sigma marketing site to me - all the images do look impressive. The Foveon X3 sensor seems to really shine when compared to the puny sensors found in most compacts. (Of course, at an MSRP of US $999 it’s not priced like any compact either) Note: Currently available for pre-order via Amazon.com for just $799!

For a more technical description of the Foveon X3 sensor click here. You can also view a flash video of how the sensor works by clicking here.