Sigma DP2

portability, performance, usability, color, image quality

price, zoom

100% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

image quality, portability, design, price, lens

screen, focus, reliability, low-light, stabilizer

92% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Very sharp lens. APS-C Foveon image sensor. 45mm field of view. Sharp rear LCD. Improved JPG engine.

Cumbersome Raw workflow. No HD video support. No EVF option. Lens is a little slow for a 45mm design.

The 3-inch rear display packs a 920k-dot resolution. It's sharp and gives you a good idea about the quality of the images you are capturing. The display is just as sharp as the 1.2-million-dot display on the Ricoh GR, but it's not as bright; that...

Excellent levels of detail in ISO 100 images (irrespective of pixel count) Dynamic range comparable with its peers Good lens with only minimal distortion and little chromatic aberration Attractive minimalist styling Good build quality Greatly improved...

Sluggish performance Desaturated and 'flat' JPEG output Unreliable White Balance Green and magenta tints to parts of many images Continuous mode only allows four shots per burst (three in RAW) Auto Focus struggles in low light (and there is no AF help...

The DP1 was a difficult camera to review - resolutely niche in its outlook, it was a brave, if not wholly successful, attempt to do something that no large manufacturer seemed willing to risk. We tried to give Sigma credit for taking that risk and...

Beautiful D-SLR-quality images. Smaller build than a D-SLR. Fast, high-quality f/2.8 lens. Unique Foveon X3 image processor.

No optical zoom. Lens is not interchangeable. No face detection. Noticeable shutter lag. Low still image and video resolutions. Small LCD. ISO 1600 and 3200 are only available when shooting in RAW format. Noticeable noise above ISO 1600.

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SLR quality in a point-and-shoot form ; Excellent image quality ; Can easily isolate subjects with shallow depth of field ; Solid camera construction

Mediocre LCD ; Sigma's raw processing software is limited and clunky ; Images shot above ISO 800 are overly noisy ; Slow focus ; Very limited third-party support for Sigma raw files

A year is a long time in the world of photography, and sadly it's one that hasn't been too kind to Sigma's compact camera vision. Back in 2008, the DP1 stood alone as the only relatively small camera with a DSLR sensor, providing fantastic image...

Pricing for the Sigma DP2 Merrill is set at around US$1,000, with availability from the middle of July, 2012.

Great characteristics for black and white shooting, nice manual controls

AF system is slow, battery life is short, shutter button is stiff, some of the interface functions is annoying, white balance is poor, video capture is poor, LCD display is overly blue

Sigma DP2 is low on features, has short battery life and the AF system too is slow. If you are an art enthusiast you can think about this camera for black and white photography but don't purchase this device if you want a all-purpose, primary camera.