Unmistakably which way SIGMA has taken with the DP2. No frills, focusing on the essentials, the visual style of a 50's viewfinder camera. Consciously be spared the 08/15-Snapshot photographers as a buyer target group. For a month, I've tested the camera through its paces. Conclusion: The image quality is significantly higher than cameras in this price range. When fanning the color channels reveals a clean RGB structure. 14 million pixels do the rest. As already mentioned, one must "as the good old days" to take pictures using the brain. With simplem trigger is not enough. Unfortunately, the image quality remains the only positive point. The technical "trappings" is anything but state-of-art. The autofocus works untimely slowly and in my opinion also inaccurate. The white balance produces now and then "weird" results. Despite Li-ion battery power management is below par. Ruckzuck is suddenly closing time with energy. By fixed focal length and also other properties of the slimmed DP2 the points raised should work 100 percent and relate to the state. So, however, she slips from preventable deficits from in my favor.