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Sigma Germany announces SD1 Wood Edition with burl veneer

Oct 12, 2011 at 17:57:12 GMT

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Sigma Germany has announced a wood-veneered version of its SD1 high-end DSLR. The 'Wood Edition' emphasizes the camera's premium appeal by adding a casing made from Amboyna Burl, an expensive and decorative veneer taken from complex growths on a Southeast Asian tree. The case takes around 60 hours to cut, mill and polish. Ten examples of the special edition will be available, body-only, for a recommended selling price of €9,999. (From PhotoScala)

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gross. it looks like some hard, uncomfortable half case. not to mention i'm sure the wood would be uncomfortable to hold for longer periods of time. the quality should be good though- the amboyna burl is very dense and strong.

but still.....how many of these do they expect to sell? i don't see the logic behind going through the trouble to produce this.

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there is no news like SD1 news . For once there is a company and a camera that align itself with Leica and its prices.
Why not go the next mile, make the SD1 supports Leica M-mount before putting a price on the camera and accessory. That would suddenly makes the camera price more acceptable.
As of now, SD1 only supports SA mount. No offense, i have sigma gears too but the impression is that we buy sigma lens because we didn't want to pay premium in the first place.
So, Lets see those M-mount on the revolutionary X3 sensor.

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OMG ... is that what they think it will take to sell the SD1? This is about as transparent a gimmick as I have ever seen in the photography world. Think Netflix has gone bonkers? Move over, Netflix! There's now a company making many more mistakes than you ever will!

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I think someone somewhere got conned with a Photoshop Disaster. Pity DPreview did too!

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Would have been nice if they'd make the actual outer body out of wood, but this just doesn't make sense. This isn't how special editions work. This is just the same camera with a accessory.

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10000 euros for a wooden camera. LOL . What person would by this ? You probably only use it for night photography when no one can see you ugly gadget.
This world's gone crazy.

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Ugh, that looks fugly to be honest. Who in the world would go out with such a camera?

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This is like a fart in an elevator - wrong on so many levels

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If a company needs gimmicks to sell a product, then they have failed to capture the market because they failed to understand the market. Sigma has clearly lost touch with the market, and this gimmick does not inspire confidence.

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To counter earlier accusations of this camera to be a rip off. Got yours yet?

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Hmm Amboyna Burl..."Southeast Asian tree".... better not be old growth forest, but then again plantation pine would'nt give quite the same effect

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"first as tragedy, and then farce"

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Jack Lumber designed this?

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meh

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Is this a joke? Really? Wood veneer? Come on. This has to be a joke. Right?

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It's beautiful...but finding a way to produce a more expensive version of the SD1 does make me snicker a little. Sort of seems like a "Netflix" type move. Release a camera at a price that causes an uproar and then produce a limited edition version that's even more expensive. :-)

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sounds like Leica? ;-)

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Come on DPR, keep focus on things that makes a difference for photography... or put it in a special section to keep focus in the main sections

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They do not mention but - does it takes pictures too?

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they do not mention the strap though.
for 9.99 it better be leather or some other kind of decorated textile.
i'd like a navajo style thing, with eagle feathers and everything
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yea but when you get sick of the polished wood you can always ask to your local crafstman to engrave it with deers, hunting scenes, naked women or whatever
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Come on, people - this is a PRANK!

Next one up will be the Gold Edition: cast, machined and polished from a solid piece of rare Alaskan Yukon Gold - for a mere €99,999.

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next one would be Titanium, wait, that has been done before.
give it a break, will ya, SD1 and Leica M9 have similar pricing, at least from my region here. so releasing some luxury accessories for it should be acceptable no?

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Not enough burling to justify the price.

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Right in time for upcoming SD1 review

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Possibly lifesaving innovation. If you were ever lost in the wilderness with this you could burn it to help stay warm

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Pimp your camera! :))

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I'm not quite sure what to make of this, so I think I'll just LOL

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I cannot imagine trying to hold this camera with this slippery wooden case. Not to mention how much "thicker" the camera is and must be uncomfortable to hold.

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If I ever thought of a list of why not to buy an SD1, this must be the first item - clearly they try to appeal to those who buy things only because they are overpriced,

This is a shame, because the concept of the Foveon sensor is that much better than that of conventional Bayer color matrix.

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I think it's pretty neat from a craftsmanship perspective, despite being fairly useless. If you look closely it's a half case and not the actual camera body.

It's just a shame they chose to make it for this particular camera.

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Soon to come, a transparent "battery grip" with live fish inside!

(for those who don't get the reference, just Google "fish tank pimp shoes")

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im sorry to say but it looks very ugly

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Εpitomizing the kitsch..!
German marketing idea?

Rumors saying that after this Sigma's idea, Leica's personell commited suicide are yet to be verified...

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I don't think any of you has understood what's really going on here.

Sigma finally has found the reason why the SD1 isn't going too well – it was too cheap!

So now they decided to make an exclusive 'wood edition' for € 9,999, and, as PhotoScala reports, make only 10 of them, too, instead of the approximately 15 cheap standard models sold so far, so people will be breaking their doors to get hold of one.

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no, just no!

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Can we buy add on excessories like curb feelers, naked mud flap girl lens cap and a lens hood ornament? My guess is this was an idea of one of the execs while stuck in traffic looking at his dash of a fancy car and then pushed to production with zero market research because you know execs can't be wrong.

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Come on, surely they have misplaced the coma in the price. It must be 9.999 $ and selling in toy stores...wait: 100%discount for the approaching Christmas so don't rush to buy now...

Honestly, this is pure mock up of stupidity.

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Ridiculously ugly. Im near speechless.

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Haha, it looks like the dashboard of a luxury car.

Interesting, different, but really? I guess for those people who have everything and money to burn.

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"Kids, don't buy drugs. Become a rock star, and they give you them for free!"

..or start working for Sigma.

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Sorry but that sounds as the "Swan Song" of Sigma

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When's the cheetah skin version with the fuzzy dice dice being rolled out?

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Very cool....

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when Pentax came up with their wine red 645D i thought it was quite a beauty. As usual, Sigma has no class, this looks as tacky as a seventies table in kidney shape. Of course even bad advertising is better than no advertizing and if you dont even have a product to sell, this might have been really needed.

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Is this some kind of "royal wedding" edition ... ? :)

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Must be the 1st of April today...

Sigma now really has gone mad. Hopefully the soon are all on a long vacation...in a very silent, relaxing building with high walls around and lots of men in white clothes.

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This is so cool. Or it would be if you took it with you in a time machine to the late seventies, that is...

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I just don't know who is more stupid - the guy who is trying to market this horrible thing or the one who will buy it. Sigma Germany management should be fired asap, otherwise the company will go down in no time. I'd love to see their sales numbers :-)

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Looks like the dashboard of a 1978 Austin Allegro Princess Vanden Plas by British Leyland. What happened to BL? Wait a minute, didn't they........

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Come on Sigma, you aren't even trying...

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Someone in Sigma Germany marketing dept has just got their pension plan statement and thinks the parent company is Greek.

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Total comments: 351


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