One trick pony Locked

DMillier wrote:

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.

And yet, you bought one such snail like camera and have recently been insisting that you’d rather have it than the faster new model for not having the snail’s ability in making flat surface look 3D. So which is it that you want? If you want both DPM like IQ and a speed monster like D4s or 1D MIII in one package, beg Nikon or Canon on your knees and pray. Besides, slow as DP is in writing files, it’s not like you can’t continue to take shots pretty much like with any other cameras while the camera takes its time to write files. What’s the big deal, really?

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.

What do you know to make those allegations instead of giving the accused the benefit of doubt? Foveon is a different sensor, right? So it could be plain difficult to implement, couldn't it? Even the biggies are shy of it. Is that so hard to allow? If it's not plain arrogance, It's then, well, I don't want to go there.

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????