I'm not convinced that Sigma actually wants to sell cameras . .

MrSkelter wrote:

xpatUSA wrote:

. . well after a couple of beers, I'm beginning to wonder!

OK, they take nice pictures but, after playing with my newly acquired DP1s and DP2s, I find it quite cynical that the DP1s comes with a DP1 manual and a scruffy fold-up sheet in a hundred different languages with the English bit spread across several folds to tell us the differences between the DP1s and it's predecessor.

But then, examining a raw histogram, I was amazed to see that the maximum raw level attainable with these two cameras is around 2,300 !!

I mean, the SD9 raw values can be up in the 10,000s the SD10 even higher, then the SD14 more like 9,000 and the SD1M more like a sane 4070 - which almost bears a resemblance to the ADCs output. God knows what the Quattro puts out, something different, I'm sure.

With scaling variations like this, and the X3F format changing with each new model, it is small wonder that so few converter providers have anything to do Sigma's products.

I actually bought these two cameras thinking they would be no different to the SD14 (same sensor, right?). Ha, how naïve can one get?!!

I'm surprised you're making a judgement based on totally out-dated hardware.

I've had every Foveon sensor camera, including the Polaroid x530, except Quattro. Since my main gripe is about Sigma changing the X3F format so often, the Quattro can be included in the gripe - witness the SPP 6.x saga.

I know this forum is filled with people in an echo chamber, trying to convince themselves that Sigma's best cameras and sensors came first and now the 'magic' is gone . . .

A demeaning statement which has neither merit nor place in this forum.