Firstly, I am utterly amazed at the number
of people who like to post to forums simply to argue the toss. People who are
happy to admit that they have not actually tried a camera ( insert any other
high tech device/car/etc) but however,
are happy to rant on about it’s shortcomings. What an utter joke!
Then there are those people who get all steamed
up and start ranting and making accusations, getting their facts mixed up and
generally making complete prats of themselves, great fun to read I have to say
and long may it continue, I love it. FM and DP review are just such good value
in this respect.
Then there are the Fanboys, they’ve bought
a camera ( doubtless after much forum lurking and review reading) and now they
are going to defend their position, their glossy new purchase can do no wrong,
it’s as laughable as the trolls who claim that the camera in question is
‘junk’.
It’s not uncommon when down the pub of an
evening, particularly as the evening draws on, to hear sports pundits droning
on and on about how a team manager, is
an complete idiot and how he or she could not manage a ‘piss up in a brewery’
etc, You know the type… Well the forums are also full of these clowns who
reckon that they could run a multi billion dollar business/develop ultra high
technology devices better than the highly experienced and skilled people who
actually do the job and have to cope with the day to day realities of the
economy/the laws of physics/supply and demand etc etc.
And of course all of the above applies in
spades when it comes to Sigma/Foveon.
I have to say that it’s great working with
a device that creates so much hot air!
For the record, I’ve now owned my DP2M for
three weeks and have taken around 400 shots with it and as many commentators
have stated:
11) It has no Zoom, well duh… It’s
like the engineers who designed it somehow ‘forgot’ that that’s what sells
cameras… Idiots! Sack the lot of ‘em. My X100 and my GRD3 don’t have zooms
either and yes, they’re ‘junk’ too!
22) Non interchangeable lens! What
were you thinking Sigma? I mean no other camera company has ever made such an
elementary mistake. Sigma will obviously be bankrupt very soon.
33) No viewfinder. Well, I hadn’t noticed
that before I bought mine. I think I might put the camera in the trash now. No
viewfinder, whatever next?
44) No flash! OMG No flash. What ,you
mean like a 1DX?
55) Boxy. Yes, like a Volvo, and
they’re ‘junk’ too.
66) Low ISO, you have to use on a
tripod. What can I say! A tripod! Why those engineers at Sigma have not been
strung up for this most horrendous of design failures I’ll never know. I mean,
who ever uses tripods these days?
77) Slow auto focus. Yes, I mean it
takes what, at least a second, I just get so bored waiting for that whole
second to pass, I think I’ll have to kill myself.
88) Slow lens. F2.8! Imagine! Completely
risable compared to the fast f2 of the X100.
99) No built in image
stabilization… When was this camera designed? 1950?
110) Less than optimal software.
Anybody tried using iTunes lately?
111) Strange colours. Sometimes,
yes, I agree.
So…. Clearly this camera is such a heap of
rubbish that anybody actually foolish enough to part with the cash is either an
idiot, an employee of Sigma, or somebody who has been ‘duped’ by the advertising.
And anybody who dares to say anything positive must clearly be a rabid Sigma
fanboy or an incompetent photographer.
Oh yes, the photographs it takes, most of
the time, are utterly incredible but
I don’t suppose this is important…..
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