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Sigma’s DP3 Point and Shoot Will Set You Back $999

Chris Gampat
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02/22/2013
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Chris Gampat The Phoblographer Sigma DP3 CES 2013 First Impressions (2 of 9)ISO 16001-170 sec at f - 4.0

Last Updated on 02/22/2013 by Chris Gampat

Chris Gampat The Phoblographer Sigma DP3 CES 2013 First Impressions (2 of 9)ISO 16001-170 sec at f - 4.0

Today, Sigma has announced the price of their new DP3 digital camera. For just under $1,000 smackaroos, you too can own a fixed lens compact camera with a 50mm f2.8 lens.

Sound a bit crazy to you? Not really when you consider how much Sigma is embracing what the Foveon sensor can do at both low ISO settings and high ISO settings (with their new Photo Pro software.) We had some play time with the camera at CES–and we actually liked it quite a bit.

Granted, there are other things that I’d personally spend $1,000 on.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.