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Professional level support. If it breaks on location, anywhere in the world, a loaner arrives within 24 hours. Even on weekends and holidays.

Weather sealing and operating tolerances that can handle everything from the arctic to the desert to the jungle. The SD15 is rated for 85% humidity and below! That means most days in Houston Texas, you shouldn't use an SD15 outdoors. :-(

The ability to shoot tethered with a live image on your laptop and the ability to fire the shutter from the keyboard.

A try before you buy program.

Video recording

Two card slots.
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Obscura
 
Changeable viewfinders and screens.

100% viewfinder accuracy.

Full range of accessories such as bellows, slide/film holder, microscope adaptor, copy stand. (Topcon did a copy stand that engaged with the bottom plate of the camera, to prevent the camera from going off level. Really useful.)

Tethered operation with easily scriptable software.

Most people today would expect HD video, with socket for external mics, but IMO video is best done with a camera designed primarily for video.
 
I have NEVER had a Nikon nor Canon fail on me. NEVER. The complaints I read on this forum is quite scary.

Speed. I keep reading 5-20 seconds to write a single photo. It's like, "what?!" Not even medium format nor Leica rangefinder nor compact P&S is that slow.

The color cast is a serious problem. Probably the one thing that kept most users away from Foveon, regardless of superior color separation. I've been told by a raving lunatic on this forum that this has been fixed. Sigma better hope so.

Actually, the longer I camp in this forum for entertainment, the more interest I lose in the SD-1. But this is like the car wreck that no one can keep from looking at.
 
Well, honestly I personally don't expect anything because I wouldn't buy a $7000 regardless of features. But then, I do this entirely as a hobby when my 9-5 doesn't get in the way, and while I have spent a lot on cameras/glass, I just can't justify $7000 for a camera when my aging D90 that is a tenth of that still takes very good photos and has most of the features that I need .

That's not to say that I'm not willing to spend more than that on my hobby if something interests me, just that I don't need it, and $7000 is well above the threshold I would spend on a camera body...
 
calxn said:
I have NEVER had a Nikon nor Canon fail on me. NEVER. The complaints I read on this forum is quite scary.

Speed. I keep reading 5-20 seconds to write a single photo. It's like, "what?!" Not even medium format nor Leica rangefinder nor compact P&S is that slow.

The color cast is a serious problem. Probably the one thing that kept most users away from Foveon, regardless of superior color separation. I've been told by a raving lunatic on this forum that this has been fixed. Sigma better hope so.

Actually, the longer I camp in this forum for entertainment, the more interest I lose in the SD-1. But this is like the car wreck that no one can keep from looking at.
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Sad but true... :(

Rich
ny
 
Obscura said:
Professional level support. If it breaks on location, anywhere in the world, a loaner arrives within 24 hours. Even on weekends and holidays.

Weather sealing and operating tolerances that can handle everything from the arctic to the desert to the jungle. The SD15 is rated for 85% humidity and below! That means most days in Houston Texas, you shouldn't use an SD15 outdoors. :-(

The ability to shoot tethered with a live image on your laptop and the ability to fire the shutter from the keyboard.

A try before you buy program.

Video recording

Two card slots.
--
Obscura
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I don't blame you. Huh Im wondering something now that you mention the humidity levels. I was in Ireland a few years back and distinctly remember my SD14 acting up in a major. Could it have been weather related? I remember it being chilly, foggy etc. moisture in the air could have caused problems?

Ah tethered shooting I have been barking up Sigmas tree on this one for years... Wouldn't that be nice. A rumor long ago was that the SD1 was going to include this feature. I have read nor heard that this has been added to the short list of features :(. As far as video this is something I have wanted since the SD14 was introduced and I figured Sigma would at least do more on that side when the 15 came out, since the DP series has it, although limited.

Rich
ny
 
Although $7000 (or in my case its UK equivalent) is way out of my price range, what I would want is a camera that is still ahead of the pack in 5 year's time.

It's very tempting to spend that sort of money over that period just to get 'the latest technology' but if a camera were sufficiently advanced that it kept my interest for a long time it would be worth the money..

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Thanks,
Gary.
 
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