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DMillier wrote:

I find it interesting that with the insiders we have in this forum, more isn't known about Sigma's strategy.

From the outside it has always seemed bizarre - for example they are happy to sell cameras with 15 sec write times and batteries that last 50 shots. Can you imagine Nikon or Canon releasing cameras with such weak specs? I can't. If they didn't have a fast enough processor they would rather not release a camera than release something that almost everyone would laugh at.

Sigma don't seem to care about such things. They can do what they want of course but it does seem like a strange strategy that doesn't make much sense. Why do they do these things, who does it benefit to make the Sigma a laughing stock? Of course the real fans understand the good side of Sigma cameras, but it is a very hard sell outside that little group and Sigma appear to content to keep on repeating the same moves.

I wonder why? They must surely have some kind of plan... what we need is Rick or Laurence or Kendall, anyone who the ear of Sigma to spill the beans... how do we make sense of the seeming wacky products they make????

Did Nikon get laughed at, when they went from their D700, which could shoot 7 fps to their D800, which could only shoot at 4 fps? No. Why not? Because of the incredible 36 MP sensor inside it.

What you don't seem to understand is that Sigma cameras produce superior image quality. For some people that is not enough to accept the limitations that come with that. For others it's a decision about price. For yet others it's not about how fast you can shoot, but how good the photos come out of the camera or out of the software in the computer, AFTER they've been shot and processed. For many of those people (and there are not a lot of those people BTW) the Sigma cameras are the cat's meow.

You don't have to do things the way everyone else does them. That's something you should have learned by now . . . but you keep harping on the so-called "facts" that YOU think are important. Well . . . obviously not everyone has the same opinion as you do . . . or Sigma would have stopped making cameras long ago.

Shall I remind you about Apple again?