>>3424844The dp2m and x100 series are comparable in image quality at low ISO.
They are NOT comparable in terms of usability. The Sigma’s Autofocus is so slow that it’s effectively unusable for non-static subjects, its controls are shitty, no viewfinder, slow to start, slow to take pictures, slow to write to the card.
The Sigma’s Image quality drops off a cliff around iso 400. I’m the sort of guy who doesn’t think twice about shooting an APS-C camera at 12,800, but I’d consider the Sigma horrifyingly bad at 800 and unusable at 1600+.
You can’t edit the raw files in Lightroom (although they just released a plugin so you can pull them up in photoshop), which means that if you want to use it in a normal workflow, you have to use Sigma’s digital photo pro software to convert to TIFF first. Sigma DPP is a war crime. The only good think about it is that it crashes a lot, which gives you a brief respite from having to use it.
But oh man... at iso 100 in good light, that Merrill image quality can’t be beat.
But honestly, it’s not worth it.
