VIDEO ABOUT THE SIGMA DP1 DIGITAL CAMERA ONE GIANT STEP FOR COMPACT CAMERA SENSORS BUT WHERES THE OTHER STUFF

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A Compact Camera That Has A New Kind of High Visual Impact Sensor That's The Size of an SLR Sensor

It's a new unique compact digital camera with aspirations to deliver the kind of quality photographs seen only in SLR cameras till now. But the way David Pogue at the NY Times tells it the developers of the new Sigma DP1 may have to go back to the drawing board. Sigma has introduced the DP1, the world’s first compact camera with an S.L.R. sized sensor inside. According to Pogue, the DP1 takes beautiful pictures. The big sensor delivers high quality images even in low light! At the core of the Sigma DP1 is the revolutionary Foveon X3® direct image sensor,the world's first image sensor that directly captures color using three layers of pixels. Foveon direct image sensors are a new type of image sensor that incorporates three pixels at every pixel location on the image sensor. So what's the problem?







So called consumer and some prosumer digital cameras tend to have smaller light sensors. As Pogue points out, "The best overall predictor of image quality in a digital camera is the size of the sensor inside. Big digital camera sensors absorb more light, so you get better color and sharper low-light images. Small sensors pack too many light-absorbing pixels into too little space, so heat builds up, creating digital “noise” (random speckles) in your photos". The Sigma DP1 is designed with a large light sensor. So far so good.

A Video Shows The Pros and Cons of the Sigma DP1

The problem is in what the Sigma DP1 doesn't have. Things that most digital camera afficanados appreciate such as a zoom and image stabilization. For example, in low light situations the shutter stays open longer. Inevitably the longer the shutter is open the more likely movement will introduce blurs. So forget about not using a tripod in low light.

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