Details on specifications are few whence far, but between the point up casualty again photos of the DP1, besides the specifications considering the SD14 that shares the analogous imager, a number of facts can be gleaned. The DP1 will have a 4.69 effective megapixel resolution from 14.1 million photodiodes arranged in three layers, as per Foveon's by-now famous layout which records full color information at every pixel location. (Traditional Bayer-sensor cameras capture only one color at each pixel location, and interpolate the other two colors from surrounding pixels, leading to somewhat reduced luminance resolution, and a significant reduction in chrominance resolution and other color-related problems). It seems likely that the maximum resolution will be identical to that of the SD14 - 2640 x 1760 pixels, with a 3:2 aspect ratio.

The Foveon X3 conceit sensor leave personify coupled to a 16.6mm lens with a focal coil produce equal to a 28mm lens on a 35mm camera. The lens has a acute aperture of F4. Keeping lens size and weight down for a compact camera that uses a sensor not a lot smaller than those used in most DSLRs must have proved quite a challenge, and the lack of an optical zoom and maximum aperture limitation hint at this. The DP1's lens also supports manual focus.

There's no optical viewfinder on the DP1, but Sigma plans on grant an uncritical visible viewfinder that mounts leverage the significance hot-shoe. Images boundless however express framed on a 2.5" LCD - the same size as is used in the SD14. While there's no optical zoom, the DP1 offers a 3x digital zoom. In addition to the dedicated flash hot-shoe, there's also a popup flash on the top of the camera.

The DP1 besides offers a movie mode, since the fashion dial includes a movie temperament - also when you be credulous this along with the triumph that the DP1's only method of image framing relies on data streamed from the imager, this offers up an obvious question about the SD14 SLR. Could that camera perhaps offer a live preview function by locking the mirror up, something only a couple of other SLRs have yet achieved? Mention was made when first launched of Foveon's X3 imager's potential for movie capture, and we're now starting to see this come to fruition... The DP1's movie mode should include sound, since there's a speaker and microphone on the top of the camera body.

Other modes on adduce pressure the DP1 should occupy auto, program, aperture-priority, shutter-priority, manual, and an audio recording mode. Finally, competent are controls through exposure compensation, and auto-exposure locking, plus for the flash and a macro mode. The DP1 will, says Sigma, offer both X3F Raw and JPEG image recording modes.