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Another quirktastic camera from Sigma....... Locked

Started Apr 19, 2017 | User reviews thread
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Re: Another quirktastic camera from Sigma.......

fishy wishy wrote:

Mackiesback wrote:

Quirky handling, poor iso performance, slow, average or below in 4 out of 7 categories, and you give it 5 stars? 5 stars as in there is no room for improvement?

I dont think the camera is the only thing quirky here.

I'd more call it retarded: "So in summary, only pleasant surprises for me, it is what it is, digital medium format for £739"

I was comparing it to film medium format, because Foveon output closely resembles film output, more-so than bayer sensors. Feel free to disagree, but you might want to consider dropping the insults more commonly heard from 10 year olds.

Uh, no, it's not medium format in any way. The sensor is 1/4 the size of medium format.

See above.

What it is, is an APS-C camera with a novel sensor that progressively blocks light in order to claim better per-pixel sharpness at the expense of steeply rising image noise. Goodnight!

No, it's a sensor that doesn't interpolate, which has pluses and minuses. Obviously it does have better per pixel sharpness, by definition.

The users of fringe technologies hardly help their cause when they make frankly daft claims like this.

I've explained above what I meant, I have no "cause", I just enjoy these cameras, if you don't get it feel free to ignore these kinds of reviews instead of behaving like a 10 year old.

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