The next Foveon camera?

tarmov wrote:

That Canon R5 jpeg seems to have a compression ratio of 3.7.

I have trouble finding any jpeg images from my DP2m that would have as high or higher compression ratio. The average (median) of my DP2m jpegs seem to be about 20MB, in rare cases above 25MB and once almost 30MB (via some deliberate tweaking in Sigma PhotoPro).

And visually I would still prefer a well lit scene captured by DP2m than by Canon R5, at least based on the R5 images that I have seen.

I would certainly be interested in a new Foveon successor to DP2m, especially if it were optimized for 8k (TV) screen resolution, given that it won't cost (much) more than DP2m did.

-Tarmo

The point of my thread is to show that the competition from high-resolution Bayer sensors, in general, is getting so high against the future FF Foveon, that there is really no point in making a FF Foveon camera.
Sigma's goal was always the ultimate IQ, and Foveon has lost that battle against the high-resolution Bayer. This is my feeling, I think outside a few people no one has seen such an FFF photo.

Forget those damn jpegs, it's about well-developed raw photos from high res Bayer sensors, made with excellent lenses.

And making a FF Foveon camera for a few thousand Foveon fans and lovers of this special rendering, that makes no sense, that won't get you out of development costs.

Of course, I hope that the FF Foveon camera will be realised. But the longer this wait goes on, the more unlikely it becomes. This has been going on for years.

Jozef.