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

Scottelly wrote:

maple wrote:

It's my guess that the FFF camera is meant to be best used with an fp as a pair, and that Sigma had already such a concept in mind when they first embarked on the FFF project. That’s why the fp is so small, stripped down to such bare minimum. It’s not much more than a digital back with just a processor, battery, display and memory so that it can just be used on its own. On the other hand, you could configure your own “customized” camera around an fp as the core module to satisfy your specific needs better. With an Foveon “module” thrown into the mix, you now have a more configurable two-sensor system to greatly expand your creative horizon.

First thing I want Sigma to do then is to make a base frame that incorporates an EVF and handgrip to come with the fpF kit, and you can swap between the two fp's.

And with all the knowledge garnered over decades of developing 3 generations of Foveon sensors, it’s perhaps time for Sigma to give the new camera a dedicated processor with all the optimized intricate algorithms hard wired to crunch the data from Foveon’s 3 silicon layers, instead of relying on software to slowly correlate them with FPGA. That, I hope will greatly boost the overall performance.

A better AF and IBIS help, too.

That's an interesting idea, but won't that cause Sigma to spend a great deal of money developing not only a sensor, but a processor too? Won't the FFF become a very very expensive camera that way? Sure, it will operate two or three times as fast (maybe ten times as fast), but is that worthwhile? (I actually think so, but maybe the first FFF should be more conventional, and then a "sport" camera, with a built-in battery grip and high-capacity battery, and a price tag to match the size of the camera. I imagine something similar to the Nikon Z9, while the first FFF is more like the Nikon Z7, which was the first Nikon full-frame mirrorless Z mount camera.)

Forget about a Foveon sensor camera for sport camera. It will never be fast enough, even if it has a dedicated processor. The best we can hope for, I suppose, is that we don't have to wait to review the image between single shots, so that it doesn't "feel" out dated in use. That should generate a lot more sales to justify the development cost of the processor.