How can Sigma make sure the FFF is the best success it can be? Locked

D Cox wrote:

applemax wrote:

Hello!

Difficult question and I can only speak for myself: What would make me buy a full frame Foveon camera?

1. Faster and easier processing. I hesitate more and more to use my SD1 because I know that every picture I take will cost me five to ten minutes to process and adjust, no matter what software I use. This is more time than I spent processing analog photos in my chemical lab 30+ years ago. I will not continue to do this, life is too short. So decent out of the camera jpgs, and/or a variant of SPP that creates decent jpgs from decent raws without any user intervention in batch mode, is an absolute must. Special pictures will always require special treatment, but the average ones must come out of the process automatically.

2. Some way to continue to use my existing SA mount lenses at no extra (or little extra) cost. I will not buy all my lenses again, no way. I rather buy another camera instead. An adapter for SA mount lenses for the new camera will either have to come free with the camera, or very cheap, or as part with an offer that one can't refuse (e.g. a very good SA mount kit lens plus adapter that can be purchased with the camera - I'm sure they have some unsold SA mount Art lenses that qualify).

Sigma sell an adapter to use SA lenses on L mount. The two SA lenses that I have work fine on the fp. It's not cheap -- it costs about a hundred dollars -- but bearable.

How well SA lenses will work on a Panasonic or Leica camera I don't know.

I have a Panasonic S1. I use my SA lenses on it. Panasonic locks out some features of adapted lenses. The most notable is continuous autofocus, which more useful for video, but also burst mode.

Some of the fancy bracketing features are also locked out, but basic bracketing works fine.

Otherwise the lenses work fine.

However, I have been wondering if I should get an fp since there are apparently no such lockouts there.

3. Price of the camera. My SD1 takes very good pictures in the right conditions. After all these years I know it's strengths and weaknesses. A FFF camera must allow me to take much better pictures and/or be very competitively priced to lure me away from what I have. The competition now have full frame cameras for three figure amounts of Euros or Dollars. I do not expect a Sigma full frame camera at this price level. But at much over 2000 it will be very difficult to sell to me...

Regards

Max