This camera is insanely gorgeous in real life, the most aesthetically pleasing camera I have ever used. Literally, the Italian design firm Creactive Design, led by the renowned designer Mario Bellini, worked on its aesthetics!!!
Several things that make the SD Quattro H a remarkable camera : - it's a Foveon sensor with an APS-H size. It's the largest Foveon sensor ever made (and the closest we've ever been to a FFF sensor) - the SDQ is the only Sigma Foveon camera that can shoot DNGs - It's the only camera (that I know of) that is a mirrorless camera (so with an EVF, not an OVF) with a removalt IR cut filter that you can take in and out in a non destructive manner making shooting infrared or full spectrum photography extremely easy, with the ability to go back to normal color just by putting the filter back in - resolution is still the best I've ever used out of any camera I've ever used (it manages to out-resolve a Fuji GFX 100 if you use the right lens) - the shutter sound is absolutely incredible - it has access to super nice and not common crop aspect ratios like 21:9, 6:7 - it's the camera responsible for the 18-35 f/1.8 Art and the 50-100 f/1.8 Art to exist : Sigma needed the best resolving lenses they could make for that monster sensor, so overbuilt lenses was the way to go. Little did they know it would lead to the two most legendary APS-C DSLR zoom lenses ever created.
I remember borrowing a friend’s DP Merril series, and thinking they were insanely slow for writing as well. I joked I could have lunch while it was writing to the card after a long exposure
It's challenging to use this sigma camera other than static subjects but it's really brilliant representing the crisp vividness of the images it captures!
I’ve had an sd Quattro (not the H model) for about 5 years. I prefer to think of it as ‘deliberate’ rather than ‘slow’ :) The image quality is just superb, in the right conditions - especially with the 18-35/1.8 ART lens. It makes me think, rather than just keep filling an SD card.
An SDQH is my primary shooter. I love it, the write times can get annoying, but when shooting raw x3f instead of DNG it's not as bad space wise. One of the more frustrating things for me has been lens selection. So many great lenses sigma has made for the APS-C sensor size that just aren't *quite* big enough to not have severe vignetting on the larger sensor, but that little bit extra you get on the sides is also very nice to have before you reach that brightness falloff
I just can't get over how frustrating Sigma's design decisions were. Needlessly using the SA mount is infuriating. Artificially extending the flange distance well beyond where it actually needs to be drives me crazy. Like, just make it have a short native flange distance with a Sigma "B mount" and have it come with an adapter. I just might want to adapt some shorter-than-44mm flange distance vintage lenses to this thing, ya know. And why the heck is the EVF where my nose will press on the screen when it could easily be off to the left to reinforce the rangefinder aesthetic? The mounting methodology alone is enough to deter me entirely from paying anything but bargain bin prices for this thing. Too bad, because I really like using the SD10 and SD14.
You've got the right lens for that camera - you can easily adapt it to sony with the mc-11 from sigma... Take the IR cut filter out and shoot it in B&W mode with a IR filter of your choice. I've got a cheap 72mm 720nm filter from china on mine...
Your images are the final goal. The plants and flowers aren’t moving slow down. Take your time. You’re not a rush. You don’t need 10 frames of images to take a picture. Get a tripod slowdown and take good pictures.
How is the feel of that viewfinder placement? It seems really interesting, you keep the lens in line with your nose and frame with your right eye. I'd really like to try that as my dominant eye is the right, but I use the left because that way the camera obscures my right eye so I don't need to squint (I see worse with the open eye as I still close it a little)
I only have SD1 Merrill and it's the only camera I ever get hat I feel "wow!!" when look at its pictures however it's abysmal when I get other people to take photo of myself using the same camera, they rarely got the picture in focus as if they didn't "know" the camera "rhythm" as the camera is a bit less responsive than most camera from bigger brand. I like it but more than half of pictures I let other people shoot for me are unacceptable. The most obvious downside when I use the SD1 Merrill is how slow the camera is when writing RAW image to card. It's super slow and I never know any digital camera as slow as this.
I use the Quattro dp1 shot the northern lights the other night with it such an amazing camera I'm fine with it being slow but I also shoot film so it's on the same line as shooting my rollie
With RU-vid compression, particularly on a short, a potato takes similar pictures. Where a Foveon shines is how they behave at high magnification. Foveon images are far more usable at 100% magnification, while Bayer tend to need to be shrunk in order to look good. When they say that 15 megapixel look like 45, they’re correct.
