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Well I played with the thing yesterday. I wasn't impressed.

The lens pops out quite a bit so it isn't as small as you think once you turn it on. The camera isn't very good at focus at all and is actually pretty slow in capturing. I would say from the time pushed the button half way down to focus until it had finished saving the image and was ready for another shot it was at least a second and a half or two seconds. I was surprised by how long it took to focus and there were several times that I couldn't get it to focus. I really had to move the camera around to get it to lock on things and several shots that it said were locked and focus looked out of focus when I reviewed them on the back of the screen. The sigma rep said this was not the final version. Sigma had told them a sell price of $600 but then right before the show told them they were doing revisions and so they didn't know what the final price would be.

Unfortunately they had the sd slot door taped up so I couldn't pop my card in and take a few to show you. I did take a picture of it with the lens out so you could see how much it extends once turned on.

I dunno. All in all I was unimpressed by the camera. In theory with some firmware updates and such they might be able to make it faster at focus and saving and so forth but the camera I played with was slower than all of the canon and nikon point and shoots I am used to. The Sigma rep thought the price would be under $1000 and was hoping for closer to the original $600 they had said.

The feel of the camera was sorta plasticy to me. They put zoom buttons for digital zoom right where my thumb comfortably goes so I kept zooming the camera by mistake while I was playing with it.

I won't be buying one!

Here's a piccy.