It’s remarkable how many more views my Sigma DP1 images get on Flickr compared to the D300. It’s a camerat that obviously interests a large number of photographers.
The good new today is that Lensmate will be making a 52mm adaptor.
Lensmateonline – Sigma DPI: “The Lensmate DP1 lens adapter has a 52mm filter thread. This size has some advantages over the OEMs 46mm size. The availability and selection of 52mm filters is greater than the 46mm size and many DP1 users already own 52mm filters. The larger size allows the stacking of filters and hoods with less likelihood of vignetting. “
I held off on the official Sigma hood and adaptor hoping for this. I have a set of 52mm filters for my Nikon 24mm and 50mm combo, including my warming filters and polarizaing filters. These will be a nice addition to the travel set. While you’ll often see that standard filters don’t work for digital, I find that comes from a misunderstanding regarding effects on white balance. The filters have the same effect, but our cameras are set to turn everything into unfiltered light. But this kills color light, as in late in the day as well as color filters. I get nice effects by shooting in the middle of the day with a warming filter plus polarizer as we did with film, but then being careful in post processing not to “dewarm” the pciture. You get a nice saturation push and contrast lowering with the filters, just as you did on film.
My last big series with the warming/polarizer combo was last year’s trip to Italy in the Riomaggiore set at Flickr.
