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

The Davinator wrote:

mdavidp wrote:

Hi,

I was pleasantly surprised by your review.

You get it.

You understand the strengths and frailties of Sigma cameras.

Others, who have not tried them are quick to condemn.

Yes, 5 stars.

Mike P

Yes, we give perfect scores to cameras that the review points out weak areas. And then we claim some people dont "get it." LOL...that is fanboyism to the extreme. If that is something we need to get, find me a review site, here, or anywhere, that mentions weak areas and flaws, and then gives perfect scores. Check out the camera reviews here on DPReview. Find me a single review with a perfect score that has the reviewer mentioning weak areas.

I didn't give it perfect scores, I gave it an overall 5 stars because for what it's designed to do, compared to it's directly comparable competitors, that is foveon cameras, it is the best in class, quite obviously. It's the same reason why the Nikon D500 got a gold award for it's track focusing ability, that's its primary strength, for fast moving objects. Would you buy this camera for fine art photography or studio photography? no, could it do it? to a point, but that isn't what its designed for. DPR themselves make a point of suggesting it's not the best for Landscape photography. So why don't you go and chest poke DPR for giving this camera a gold award because it doesn't do everything better than anything else?

There is no other Foveon sensor camera as good as the SD Quattro's, they are currently the benchmark. Obviously the processing demands of a high resolution foveon sensor are such that they impact things like battery life and evf resolution, not to mention write times. Maybe you think you have the answer to that, perhaps you could let Sigma know how they're getting it wrong? As it is they've produced cameras which give fantastic per pixel sharpness, with excellent build quality, capable of beautiful images approaching medium format quality for a price less than most mid-range DSLR's, if that's not worthy of 5 stars I'm not sure what is. To compete with them you have spend in the region of 3K where I live, and in most cases carry bigger and heavier cameras and lenses

I anxiously wait your links to those reviews. If you cant find one, maybe you and the OP can educate the reviewers at DPReview...so they can "get it" just like you do.

Maybe you could just grow up?