Disheartening Very Disheartening

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.

Iain,

To describe Sigma as the Sigma camera company is essentially incorrect. I would say it is a company dedicated to photography, a company that makes equipment, mostly lenses, for photographers and videographers.

It also makes some cameras going back to the film days. I do not think they have been a failure in that regard.

Iain you seem to have convinced yourself that the only Sigma digital cameras with the very early sensors are unique and indeed they were and are but that is not to say that all the ones that followed them are not.  I believe that each range of cameras they produced are unique as they all have their own strengths & weaknesses, but they are all capable of outputting first class files and making first class images used to their strenghts & processing properly.

There is really no reason to say that the colour was / is wretched in the Merrills or to say that the Quattros colour is so pushed so as to cause over saturation. It just not the case in both instances.

Believe me you must use the Merrills and Quattros for some time and see for yourself just how good they are.

S