Should Sigma make a 30 MP per layer full-frame Foveon instead of 20 MP per layer?

Jozef M wrote:

No, Sigma should not.

They should make that 20 MP FFF sensor with a good iso 1600, in a good smallish camera body with good AF, and low light AF, a good viewfinder, a bit like that Lumix S5. Sigma can not compete on detail, Sigma should make the best IQ they can, better then their Merrill.

IF they can make that FFF, and where do you get that knowledge that a higher res sensor takes only a few months to develop?

I asked if people would want Sigma to switch from 20 MP per layer to 30 MP per layer, even if it takes a few more months to release the camera. I see how you could think that implies it would take a few months to develop a new sensor, and maybe a few months is an underestimation, but if people wouldn't want it if they have to wait a few more months, then the question is moot anyway, but if people would want it, I guess we'd have to determine whether they'd be willing to wait a whole year more, because the sensor development might take more than just a few more months. I would guess 20 MP per layer will probably be a bit easier and faster than 30 MP per layer, so it would likely take a few months less to develop a 20 MP per layer sensor than a 30 MP per layer sensor. At this point, it might be that the 20 MP per layer sensor has been mostly designed already though, so it would take a whole year or more extra to design a "new" 30 MP per layer sensor, so I get what you're saying.

61 days to develop a new sensor?

Where did you get the idea that I said "61 days to develop a new sensor?"

You are dreaming again ...

Of course I'm dreaming again. LOL

Regards,

Jozef.