Motorcycle at the Back Alley

Sigma DP2s

I used to love the noises of the b/w jpg pictures straight from Ricoh GRDI at high ISO. Now such pictures from my DP2s are my new love.

JJC ALC-2

Canon Ixus 70

Replaced the Ricoh LC-1 with this self-retaining lens cap specially made for Sigma DP cameras by JJC. It works OK. Just a little loose even after being screwed in place. And the colour is not in the black as the lens barrel. The make and model are too large... However, it fits much better than LC-1.

Tiger

Sigma DP2s

The Seat #2

Sigma DP2s

The Seat

Sigma DP2s

Escape

Sigma DP2s

PP by SPP3. For b/w, it's better than SPP4. The gorgeous noises remain.

I've been amazed again and again with DP2s after taking test shots for a few days. Its weakest point is definitely its low light performance. With some experiments, I've already grasped some simple techniques to turn such difficult condition into useful pictures.

Sigma DP2s + Ricoh LC-1

Olympus µ 850 SW

After a hiatus, I'm back with a new camera, Sigma DP2s!

Although my previous camera, Panasonic LC-1, is a nice camera, it somehow doesn't work for me in a long term. It works like a rangefinder and looks cool. Its lens is great! Its picture quality is very good. I liked it a lot and thought it's the camera to stay. But after some extented use, I found it's quite big and heavy. Although it's not as big and heavy as a DSLR, it's much bigger than my old loves, Ricoh GR Digital and other compact film cameras. Of course, I knew its size and weight when I considered to buy it. I just thought it's not a big problem. As I found that I took less and less pictures with it, I knew it's really a problem. It stayed inside its soft case more and more as time went by.

After playing with my friend's new GRDIII, I just wanted to bring back the joy of taking pictures with a true compact camera. I wanted a 2nd-hand GRDI at decent condition. But I finally dropped the idea as such GRDI could break anytime after all the years. I may find a GRDI at a very good price later for its B/W quality. For now, I need a new good one. After learning the lessons with Konica Hexar and Panasonic LC-1, I must find one with a compact and light body and pretty good picture quality. I thought a little about GRDIII. But it's not a big breakthrough except for its high ISO performance. What else was a better option? I came across Sigma DP2s.

I heard a lot of comments on how poor DP1 is. Now DP2s is a result of improvements over the previous DP's with a prime lens. It doesn't work as great as GRDIII. It's just acceptable. With its amazing picture quality, I can say it's more than acceptable.

Do I really need such picture quality? Most of the time, no. But GRDIII can't bring me such quality. And with post-processing, I can turn a very detailed picture into a lower quality one. I can't do this another way round.

So, finally, DP2s!

As its lens cover is quite annoying, I've replaced it with a Ricoh LC-1.