Sigma DP1s for Landscape Photography

Is the Sigma DP1s good for Landscape Photography?

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Sigma DP1s Landscape Photography Score

POOR

Sigma DP1s has a score of 28 for Landscape Photography which makes it a POOR candidate for this type of photography. If Landscape Photography is important for you, we strongly recommend you to consider the Alternative cameras listed at the bottom of this page.
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Sigma DP1s Landscape Photography Detailed Analysis

Manual Exposure Mode

A correct exposure of a landscape shot is very important. Even though modern digital cameras features advanced algorithms to calculate the right exposure, they still may fail some difficult conditions. Manual exposure mode in these conditions helps a lot in order to achieve correct exposure.

Manual Focus Mode

With the manual focus mode, you can make fine adjustments to have the perfect focus.

28 mm - Good Wide Angle Coverage

Even though there are very good examples of landscapes photos taken with tele lenses, most of the landscape photos are taken with wide angle lenses.

RAW shooting capability

RAW files contains much more color information compared to JPEGs, and gives you more room for post processing without significant quality loss. They provide wider dynamic range and option to recover shadow and highlight clipping to some degree.

Large APS-C (20.7 x 13.8 mm) sensor

Large sensor in Sigma DP1s ensures a good low light image quality compared to smaller sensors, and it also provides higher pixel quality compared to smaller sensors.

Very Low Resolution Sensor: 5.0MP

Landscapes photography is where you need the maximum resolution. Unfortunately Sigma DP1s's 5.0MP sensor doesn't deliver much and limit you with smaller prints and less fine details.

No Environmental Sealings

Landscape photographs are taken outdoors and you should be prepared for all kind of weather conditions.

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Sigma DP1s Alternatives in Large sensor compact cameras for Landscape Photography

Leica Q2 Compare DP1s vs Q2	47 MP \| Full frame CMOS Sensor 28 mm Lens	Rank in All Cameras: #36 Rank in Compact Cameras: #1
	Imaging Features Value for Money Portability Overall Score	Portrait Street 90 Sports Daily 90 Landscape

Sony RX1R II Compare DP1s vs RX1R II	42 MP \| Full frame BSI-CMOS Sensor 35 mm Lens	Rank in All Cameras: #64 Rank in Compact Cameras: #2
	Imaging Features Value for Money Portability Overall Score	Portrait Street Sports Daily Landscape

Zeiss ZX1 Compare DP1s vs ZX1	37 MP \| Full frame CMOS Sensor 35 mm Lens	Rank in All Cameras: #72 Rank in Compact Cameras: #4
	Imaging Features Value for Money Portability Overall Score	Portrait Street Sports Daily Landscape

Leica Q Compare DP1s vs Q Typ 116	24 MP \| Full frame CMOS Sensor 28 mm Lens	Rank in All Cameras: #69 Rank in Compact Cameras: #3
	Imaging Features Value for Money Portability Overall Score	Portrait Street 90 Sports Daily Landscape

Sony RX1R Compare DP1s vs RX1R	24 MP \| Full frame CMOS Sensor 35 mm Lens	Rank in All Cameras: #178 Rank in Compact Cameras: #11
	Imaging Features Value for Money Portability Overall Score	Portrait Street Sports Daily Landscape

Leica Q2

Sony RX1R II

Zeiss ZX1

Leica Q

Sony RX1R