Disheartening Very Disheartening

adegroot wrote:

My PERSONAL experience:

SD9: great resolution but bad colors, too yellow; personally I didn't like this camera at all (borrowed from a friend)

SD10 (my first serious digital camera): a little less resolution than SD9, but much better colors- surprisingly large prints are possible

DP1: good resolution, but colors still off (too stark); wasn't too crazy about this little thing (one day, it just suddenly died)

DP1M, DP2M, DP3M, SD1M: fantastic resolution, colors much better; love these cameras. Correct exposure is paramount.

DPQ 0, SDQ: can yield great results when files are carefully exposed and processed; colors different from Merrills. Having DNG files is great option. Also multi-shot mode produces clean files.

BEST RESULTS for all cameras: Landscape and city scape photography. Not people skin tones.

Especially latest cameras (from Merrills to Quattros): great for b/w photography, but previous models also.

Because this was not being quoted from your comment, since it fell after your signature, I decided to quote it: "Sigma failure as a company? No way!

Remember that the Bayer sensor has come a long way since Foveon first came to market, and for Sigma to make a hybrid camera, of course they went Bayer, but they still remain committed to the Foveon sensor, even if and when they face difficulties with the FF development."

I certainly hope you're right about that. I am really looking forward to the FFF as the best camera Sigma has ever made . . . and follow-up cameras to that one which will continue to be the best cameras that Sigma has ever made. For example, I'm hoping that Sigma makes the FFF with some new features, but introduces a higher resolution sensor in the follow-up camera to the FFF (hopefully just a year or two later), and I'm hoping that if Sigma doesn't put an articulating flip-out screen on the FFF they put one on the follow-up camera to the FFF. I'm also hoping Sigma puts two SD Express card slots in the FFF, but if they don't, then hopefully . . .

I'm really hoping that eventually Sigma will make a loaded full-frame camera with a Quattro sensor that makes photos that are about 50 MP (equivalent to the photos from a camera with a 100 MP Bayer pattern CFA sensor). It doesn't have to do video, though I would love to see at some point such a camera that CAN do really excellent quality 8Kp60 video. Obviously Sigma could make a three-layer (Foveon) sensor that can do video, because the DP Merrills could do it. Unfortunately the DP Merrills didn't do video very well. We don't know if that's a sensor limitation or just the way Sigma did their video implementation. Now that they have more experience, with the fp and fp L, they may be able to make their cameras with three-layer sensors do video quite well. We have yet to see how that pans out.