Your lenses are so good and pretty, your digital cameras are so crappy. But I can honestly say I’m totally satisfied with the buying of their crappy camera, since I sold it and the accessories for more than I bought them for.

Needless to say I’ll never buy a camera based on spec without trying it out and/or reading plenty of reviews beforehand. The Sigma sensor has a definite potential, however their cameras are bulky and unweildy, eat battery like no tomorrow and are very, very inconsistent in the way they shoot – I’d change the settings on the camera, then shoot a few pictures – and they would change from picture to picture. I’m sure some of that was my incomprehension of things like aperture and shutter speed – but they also didn’t have an automatic mode on the camera. Seriously. I mean, that’s been a feature of DSLRs (and regular SLRs) for longer than I’ve been aware they even existed.

Buy Sigma glass, not Sigma cameras. Especially their pocket DSLR, which has all the problems of their big cameras (sloooooow) but none of the advantages of a pocket camera (it’s still freakin huge and probably has no automatic modes)

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 at 12:11.