We're used to 24 images being flashed from a projector onto a huge screen from 35mm film. Making video 24fps only goes a portion of the way to make it look like film; some people swear this is necessary and does the job, but there are other aspects to make footage from a video camera look like film, such as depth of field and the motion of the camera itself.
I'm glad they didn't include a flash; I've never used an on-camera flash and appreciate the nod to more serious photographers who have little or no use for such things.
24p being flashed onto a screen by a projector with relatively soft fading is what we're used to, not the 24 frames instantly and abruptly cutting into each other on an LCD.
I downloaded the large files and didn't see any jaggies at all. The amount and nature of the details are impressive, but that's no surprise as the the DP1 has similarly impressive performance. The white patches indicate that the photographer overexposed the photo in RAW and couldn't quite rescue those parts. If he'd done the same thing with any other compact camera, the whole frame would have been pure white, as the Sigma has a larger dynamic range, at least in RAW.
I know this camera has great IQ; what I want to know is how fast it is to record the images, how fast the shot-to-shot times are and what the 1600ISO shots look like.
Yes, of course this would happen. I was waiting until a yae/nay on the 32gb version at the last Apple event, and bought a 16gb iPhone after there was no news. So now, of course, they would do this. Sigh.
I'm still not sure what the point of this camera is, besides the exchangable lenses (which is a nice thing, no doubt). Still, it has a smaller sensor than my compact camera that is much easier to carry around with me.
Here in Taiwan 3G is very prevalent. We even make half the damn iPhone here, chips, etc. And yet we aren't allowed to buy the thing or even use the iTunes store. Ridiculous and pathetic.
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