The shot illustrates the DP1’s incredibly clean and detailed output given the right conditions.

Note: Sigma warns of possible highlight clipping in LOW 50 mode, and indeed there is some clipping in this shot. So expose particularly carefully at this setting.

Like all the shots here, there’s a distinct ‘look’ to the DP1’s images, which is noticeably different to other cameras. Whether you like this or not is down to personal preference, but there’s no denying the excellent per-pixel sharpness and degree of fine detail revealed in the crops.

Since the image has a lower output resolution than most modern cameras, the cropped areas are bigger than our other Galleries, but again the degree of sharpness and detail across the frame is very impressive.

Following our other Galleries, the sensitivity was increased to 200 ISO, and thankfully there’s no issues to report.

As before, the crops are highly detailed and the lens exhibiting no issues with the high contrast material.

The DP1’s 28mm equivalent focal length is not ideal for portrait work, but if you position yourself carefully, you can avoid wide angle distortion. Thanks to the size of the sensor, it’s also possible to blur the background a little at f4, but here we shot in program mode with the flash.

The crops are again packed with sharp detail – the DP1 is certainly a great performer at these lower sensitivities.

The combination of a wide angle lens and a modest 30cm closest focusing distance means the DP1 is not that well suited to macro work. Indeed rather than capturing a detailed portion of the 17x17cm board here, it can’t even quite fill the frame with it.

But what is has captured is certainly detailed, although some chroma noise is visible in those darker areas.

As seen in the previous example, some chroma noise has become apparent in the darker areas of the image. It’s certainly nowhere near as clean a result as we’d hope for a camera with a DSLR-sized sensor at this sensitivity.

That said, it’s still better than conventional compacts and there’s still quite a lot of detail in the image.

Here the chroma noise effects have become much worse, and while the result is still superior to most compacts, it’s certainly not up there with decent DSLRs.

Under these dim lighting conditions, the DP1’s live view also became grainy and monochrome – we’ve not seen this with any other modern camera.

As with the previous 800 ISO samples, there’s more chroma noise than you’d expect from a DSLR-sized sensor, especially one with larger than average pixels too.

But again it’s better than the result from traditional compacts. But if you’re looking for low noise at higher sensitivities, it’s no match for a decent DSLR.