JPEG Quality of DP3 Merrill

[Rob MacKillop]

I took a jpg for a quick reminder to myself of a book in a bookshop. Then I forgot to reset the DP3M to the raw setting. Now, I'd always read that the jpg quality from these cameras was awful, just not worth doing. Yet again, the reviews of the Merrill cameras don't tally with my experience. These are OK. They clock in at about 9MB each, though the versions here are just a fraction of that.

I've not edited some, and edited others, just to see how much info was there to use.

All at the Edinburgh botanical gardens this morning...

This one is edited in Nik Colour to bring out detail in the leaf. The original, unedited version is below it.







Unedited, Dragon Bridge:






Lily Pond edited in Nik Colour - some darkening of the water, highlighting of the leaves, and glamour glow:






Ditto:




Original unedited version of the above:






Just darkened in Elements:






Nik Colour again to bring focus to the central leaf:

 

[Brian Moore]

They look quite lovely to me.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Cheers, Brian.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Yes, also most reviews give it a minus because the prime lens does not zoom and it has no GPS. They also look fine too me too.

 

[Paul Lange]

They look very film-like to me, although not of any particular type of film. I am starting to think that the people who write the reviews have no idea how to actually take a photo.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Agreed!

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

They look very film-like to me, although not of any particular type of film. I am starting to think that the people who write the reviews have no idea how to actually take a photo.

Exactly Paul, I strongly believe and feel it imperative that in future Sigma send Rob and myself all their new camera's too keep for a proper and valued review.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

OOPs and Pete and Steve and Pat but not Ivar

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Count me in!

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Count me in!

I get two because I thought of it

 

[Pat Reehal]

Ich auch bitte.

In German as we are down in sunny Bavaria on the shores of Lake Chiemsee ready to travel the German Alpine Road to Fussen.

Tchussssssssssssssss.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Have fun, Pat. Looking forward to photos of beer maidens

 

[Pat Reehal]

So Herr MacKillop you vish photos of ze Fallen Madonna mitt der big Boobies?

 

[Pete Askew]

I'm with Brian. Quite lovely.

I took the DP2 to Switzerland last week and used it most of the time. I'll post some shots soon(ish).