eke2k6 said:

  I got my new camera, a Sigma DP2 Merrill yesterday. Today, my friend agreed to be my model. These are the results!
 
(Edited with VSCO Film 04)
 
 
 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/117279548@N08/sets/72157640994650063/
 
 
I can't post them here because the JPEGs are over the head-fi's 10mb file limit. The RAW files from this camera range from 45 to 60mb!

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Can't wait to see your landscape photographs.

 

 
Goodbye D800.

Can you post some pics taken with X-T1?

They are exactly the same as pictures taken by the X-Pro 1, just the experience is much better.

Speaking of great looking cameras....this one is not:

shigzeo said:

Goodbye D800.

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Nice! It makes perfect sense that they were waiting to get the best electronic viewfinder they could make for it.

A little more money than I wanted to spend for a camera, but actually fairly inexpensive when you look at what it does in comparison to what else is out there. Folks love the skin tone it produces too.

I'm happy with my new $600 Nikon 5100 kit. Amazing though as you point out.............Goodbye D800. You get the complete kit for $1100 less than a Nikon D800 body.

shigzeo said:

They are exactly the same as pictures taken by the X-Pro 1, just the experience is much better.

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What is your experience using a nikon lens on x-pro1? I have few manual focus nikon and zeiss lens.

redcarmoose said:

Nice! It makes perfect sense that they were waiting to get the best electronic viewfinder they could make for it.

A little more money than I wanted to spend for a camera, but actually fairly inexpensive when you look at what it does in comparison to what else is out there. Folks love the skin tone it produces too.

I'm happy with my new $600 Nikon 5100 kit. Amazing though as you point out.............Goodbye D800. You get the complete kit for $1100 less than a Nikon D800 body.

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The questions arise though that using old full frame 35mm Nikon lenses that it's not a full frame sensor and stuff is magnified by X 1.5 ? The APS C sensor.


I really was hoping to get a FX sensor this time but ended up DX.

redcarmoose said:

  Can't wait to see your landscape photographs.

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Here's an original size Sigma DP1 Merrill landscape shot I took last weekend (Lake Traun, Upper Austria. 56K Warning: 8.5MB!)
 

james444 said:

Here's an original size Sigma DP1 Merrill landscape shot I took last weekend (Lake Traun, Upper Austria. 56K Warning: 8.5MB!)

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I'll check it out on more screen real estate in the AM. THX.

james444 said:

   
Here's an original size Sigma DP1 Merrill landscape shot I took last weekend (Lake Traun, Upper Austria. 56K Warning: 8.5MB!)
 
 

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My mouth gaped for a good 3 seconds. Awesome shot, James! 
 
Seriously, for anyone who doesn't primarily shoot at night or in low light, the Sigma Merrill compacts appear to offer unbeatable image quality and nearly absurd value. I can hardly believe the shots I'm getting from this little black box. Before buying I spent over 30 hours glued to my chair researching these cameras and every website that has comparisons. I've seen them outresolve the likes of the D800 and M9. For the portraits I took, I had to use brushes in lightroom to counter the DP2M's tendency to expose every pore and wrinkle in her face. 
 
I'm sure I have a case of new toy syndrome right now, but I frickin love this camera.

eke2k6 said:

  My mouth gaped for a good 3 seconds. Awesome shot, James!

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Thanks, Eke. I had to sacrifice a tiny amount of detail though, to stay below the 10MB limit.
 
FWIW, here's an uncompressed 42MB TIFF of the same shot for the purists: https://www.hidrive.strato.com/lnk/77luKGJZ

james444 said:

   
Thanks, Eke. I had to sacrifice a tiny amount of detail though, to stay below the 10MB limit.
 
FWIW, here's an uncompressed 42MB TIFF of the same shot for the purists: https://www.hidrive.strato.com/lnk/77luKGJZ

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If you zoom into the little white house in the village to the right, you can see a man picking his nose in his bathroom mirror.

eke2k6 said:

My mouth gaped for a good 3 seconds. Awesome shot, James! 

Seriously, for anyone who doesn't primarily shoot at night or in low light, the Sigma Merrill compacts appear to offer unbeatable image quality and nearly absurd value. I can hardly believe the shots I'm getting from this little black box. Before buying I spent over 30 hours glued to my chair researching these cameras and every website that has comparisons. I've seen them outresolve the likes of the D800 and M9. For the portraits I took, I had to use brushes in lightroom to counter the DP2M's tendency to expose every pore and wrinkle in her face. 

I'm sure I have a case of new toy syndrome right now, but I frickin love this camera.

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You have a definable film look. The goals we had in school are close to what your getting. After all this there seems a large missing quality to digital which this camera seems to add back in. The cloud detail in the above landscape is a great sample. With regular dx sensor you can at times pull it out in Photoshop and at times you can not?

redcarmoose said:

You have a definable film look. The goals we had in school are close to what your getting. After all this there seems a large missing quality to digital which this camera seems to add back in. The cloud detail in the above landscape is a great sample. With regular dx sensor you can at times pull it out in Photoshop and at times you can not?

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The Foveon sensor is magic when it comes to giving life to detail and texture. James' landscape photos are examples of that. It works by having three color layers on top of each other, so each pixel has blue, green, and red information. This is opposed to traditional Bayer sensor layouts that have the different colors side by side, and are combined later via software:
 
http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/digital-photography-tutorial-camera-sensors_Page-3
 
But the shots I posted yesterday are processed to get that exact look. There's a photographer I've idolized for a while. I've tried to emulate the emotion she brings out with her poses and lighting, but I could never quite understand how she got her colors to have that certain...je nais se quois (lol). I stumbled on it by accident when she thanked one of her sponors...VSCO. They make these amazing film replication presets for Lightroom and Photoshop. I have all of them, but my favorites come from their Film Pack 04. I've spent months trying to figure this out, so I'm saving you the research . Prior to that, i didn't know her particular look was apparently "film-like".
 
The photographer shoots with a D800 and a 1.4 35mm lens.
 
Her blog: http://blushbyb.com/blog/