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Sigma’s DP1 Quattro Continues the Alien Looking Point and Shoot Tradition

Chris Gampat
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09/12/2014
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Pictured here is the DP2. At the moment of publishing this article, photos of the DP1 were not available.
Pictured here is the DP2. At the moment of publishing this article, photos of the DP1 were not available.

Sigma has shown commitment to odd ergonomic design in their announcement today detailing the new DP1 Quattro. To refresh, the DP2 Quattro was their first entry into this series. Sticking to Sigma tradition, the company’s DP1 has a wide angle 28mm equivalent f2.8 lens in front of the new Foveon Quattro sensor. Said lens unit houses one FLD element and two glass mold aspherical elements.

Just like the previous Quattro Foveon sensor, expect loads and loads of details to be rendered from the images. To see just how much, you can check out our review of the dp2 Quattro here.

Sigma states that the DP1 Quattro will feature better battery life, a TRUE III imaging processor, better ISO performance (they claim up to two tops of improvement), better autofocus, improved white balance, new color modes and better metering when it comes to auto exposures. .

But in addition to the camera, the company is also announcing a new LVF for the series with a diopter adjustment of -2 to +1. It magnifies the LCD screen 2.5x.

We have no word on pricing yet, but expect it to hit the stores sometime around December 2014

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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.