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Had to bite my sigma DP1
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a few days ago i lost my grip on my backpack and it fell off me. the small point and shoot got the worst of it. i realized last night while i was playing with it ( at dinner after half a bottle of good sangiovese ) that the pop up flash wasn’t popping up any more. as i was getting ready for months of waiting to get it back from their repair service, i tried a last option and took a precise bite where the weak metal body was dented. it worked and now the flash is up and running again. not that i ever use it but after paying almost 1000 usd for it, it better treat me nicely. takes nice pictures BTW and the 3:2 format on such a small camera is awesome.
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Guy Calaf
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Tue Jun 10 07:29:27 UTC 2008
(ed. Jun 21 2008)
Siena,
Italy
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ha ha, i used my g5 to open a door and the lens was pushed out of alignment, so i pushed it straight and carried on shooting…
fine so far!
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Nice, I hope for the sake of your teeth though that you don’t ever get in a fender bender.
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How did it taste? Mine fell off the dinner table a few days ago – with the lens retratcted, fortunately. Still working perfectly fine. I thought about chewing on it, but you’re not supposed to eat the heavy stuff in the evening and I assume it doesn’t go well with white wine..
Glad to see someone else is buying those, I really like mine despite its shortcomings.. flash sync with f5.6 at 1/1000th is cool.
It eats through the battery pretty fast though, even just sitting in the bag. Don’t know if this is just mine?
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yeah Phil. I just ordered two extra batteries. I guess it’s something they’ll have to work on on their next version.
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Well that makes three of us then. I like it (the DP1) more and more despite all the – well documented – things that could be better. Beautiful colours and the clunky SPP software has the best “auto” function of any raw software I know because it seems to be designed to produce quickly good files for PP.
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Just a quick heads up, there is a custom grip for the DP1, mine arrived last week, and the camera handles just so much better with it, no idea why Sigma couldn’t come up with something like this in the first place. Shipping was superfast btw, so just buy one while they last.. Cheers
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