So true - seriously

http://diglloyd.com/blog/2013/20130221_3-SigmaDP3Merrill.html

Quotes:

'Sigma has posted 42 sample images from the DP3 Merrill. Check out #10 and #42 in particular, apply a little fine radius sharpening and if your jaw doesn’t drop in seeing the rooftop tiles and similar detail in #10 in particular, then you must be shooting a PhaseOne IQ180 or Nikon D800E. Because no conventional Bayer sensor camera can deliver that kind of per-pixel quality in a 14.75 megapixel image.'

'As I’ve said in my past writings and reviews, the Sigma DP Merrill cameras are not only the poor man’s Leica M, but DP Merrill users like the cameras a lot. And the DP Merrills make outstanding cameras for black and white imagery. What would be quite exciting would be a full frame version.'

'What a striking juxtaposition to the trite Nikon D7100 samples shown with the D7100 marketing material. Not only are Nikon’s marketing samples badly presented at low quality and low resolution and with incompetent sharpening, they are damned boring. And the few larger samples have nowhere near the detail, such as the snowy hillside scene which looks downright blurred in terms of fine detail.

Nikon thus positions the D7100 for mundane, and Sigma positions its camera for artistic imagery. Of course, Nikon will sell far more cameras.'