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Is a new Sigma APS-C camera in the offing...?

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Hulyss Bowman
Hulyss Bowman Junior Member • Posts: 46
Re: Is a new Sigma APS-C camera in the offing...?

Tom Schum wrote:

Iain G Foulds wrote:

… Don’t care about buffer, speed, screen resolution, full frame, above roughly base ISO, battery size, etc. Just want an updated DP2 with quality of colour that stands above every other camera in the world.

… Sigma could do this, and be an industry leader. Just seems unlikely.

Not sure but I imagine the old sensor design would not be expensive to re-produce.

Part of the problem would be that if it were redesigned as BSI and so on, the required pixel dimensions might limit the APS-C image size to no more than 10mp, keeping in mind that the original sensor has a front-side illuminated design, with maybe half the "pixel" area taken up by electronic components.

The more artistic color palette of the 1:1:1 Foveon really appeals to me, too. An APS-C 1:1:1 BSI Foveon with L mount, at a price similar to the sd Quattro, would really appeal to me financially as well.

I ear you here. If the BSI can be applyed to a foveon ... then we are all good. Damn yes !

The real estate of the Foveon is particulary crowded for sure. But if they can implement BSI without too much drawbacks then we will probably have a very very potent camera.

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