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Even the cheap SD9 sells for more than the Digital Rebel. I think Sigma
could do better it cut the price of it's cameras to $500 and marketed them
as economy Digital SLRs.
Paul Riemerman
"David Kilpatrick" <iconmags3@btconnect.com> wrote in message
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> X-Ray-Wa wrote:
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>> On 19-Jul-2004, george_preddy@yahoo.com (George Preddy) wrote:
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>>>That rules out the Kodak 14c, which is only 3.3MP after color
>>>interpolation.
>>>
>>>The puny Canon 1Ds sensor only has 2.7 (unbelievably noisy) MPs after
>>>color interpolation.
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>>>The monstrous SD9/SD10 sensor has 3.43 full color MPs, the most of any
>>>DSLR.
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>> I read a Review on these Sigma Cameras
>> And they said Great sensor but in the wrong camera "Sigma"
>> Sigma Letting the new Sensor chip down
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> Yet again - everything Preddy writes is rubbish, but not all reviews are
> much less biased (in the other direction). This month there are reviews of
> the Kodak DCS Pro SLR/c from Adam Woolfitt and John Henshall in two
> different UK photo mags. Woolfitt describes the Sigma body as inferior in
> ergonomics and focusing speed to the EOS 1DS, and also about 2/3rds of the
> weight. Henshall describes is as feeling like a Tonka toy or a
> Fisher-Price camera. There is little doubt that people who like the Canon
> control layout don't like the Sigma layout, mainly because of the absence
> of a rear thumbwheel and the use of a large top-mounted dial (in the same
> position as a traditional shutter speed dial) to do this job. The
> autofocus is also relatively slow and simple in its functions.
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> However, the Sigma SD10 body does the job it is intended to do; it has a
> good shutter with a faster max speed than a *1stD, EOS 300D, 10D, Nikon
> D100, Kodak DCS Pro/n, Fuji S2 - good E-TTL type flash system comparable
> with Canon or Nikon at considerably lower cost - and some neat features
> like a wireless remote control, mirror-up operation, three-channel
> histogram and rapid viewing of RAW files from 12.5% scale to 400% (32X
> magnification), rotation tagging, last deleted image instant recovery -
> etc.
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> If you list all the primary features of, say, a Canon 10D and then line up
> the Sigma aganst those you get a lot of ticks missing for the Sigma - and
> that is how most reviewers think. But if you list the primary features of
> the SD10, and line up another camera against it and do the same thing,
> guess what - things look the other way round. The only accurate way to
> assess cameras is to identify ALL the primary functions or features of
> every competing camera, and then tick 'em all off against this list, but
> both reviewers and advertising copywriters are incredibly good at doing
> the other way.
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