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

fishy wishy wrote:

absquatulate wrote:

Of course shooting Sigma is "counter-culture", just like shooting film is, we're the Photography anarchists, audacious low ISO rebels! come the revolution.....

As for Sigmas being unique in clouds... the Fuji SuperCCD already did much better than modern sensors in maintaining highlights there.

You mean the sensor that no longer exists because it was so popular?

This gives some obvious rejoinders :

1) Are Sigmas popular? I never saw a real-life shop selling them.

I never saw a real shop selling many cameras, most people buy their stuff online these days, go and have a look and see if you can find them. I'm pretty sure Sigma is still producing cameras considering I just bought a new one.

2) What do you know about the costs of converting a novel sensor design to custom CMOS in a saturated market for a small player? The R pixels of SuperCCD also gave Fuji a marketing problem in the specification race. They could continue to lie about the number of pixels yielded, like Sigma did by quoting 3x the real pixel count, or they could try another approach to impressing the public. Unfortunately they chose a rather inneffectual redesign of the bayer matrix but most of all made their cameras trendy for the hipster set.

In summary - "no they don't make them anymore".

I wish you had made an effort to point out supposed tonal improvements with some photos maybe. Otherwise tossing out the idea of Sigma as the poor man's medium format is as good as a non sequitur.

There's this thing called the internet, on it you'll find this thing called "Google", feel free to take advantage of this technology and find some images yourself. I'm sure you'll actually find some in this actual forum, if click fatigue doesn't finish you off first.