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Disheartening Very Disheartening

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Re: Disheartening Very Disheartening
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Iain G Foulds wrote:

… The Sigma camera company is essentially a failure. It had a brilliant and unique sensor in the original vintage Foveon, lost much of that quality in the Merrill by sacrificing colour in pushing resolution. Realized that the colour was wretched in the Merrills, so pushed colour in the Quattro- causing over saturation and simplified colour. Then, abandoned their brilliant and unique sensor altogether, and followed the crowd- unsuccessfully.

Perhaps you should try using a Merrill camera for a few months before writing them off.  I think what you are complaining about is entirely a matter of people's preferences when processing the raw files.  Bear in mind that eyesight and colour vision vary considerably from one person to another, and at different ages in the same person.

The saturation of an image from a Quattro sensor isn't inherently any different from that of any other Foveon. It just depends on your processing skills and intentions.

If you read the most recent interview with Mr Yamaki, you will see that his company is still working on a new three-layer sensor. It isn't easy under current conditions.

Don

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