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What would the FFF have to do in order to be competative?

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Re: What would the FFF have to do in order to be competative?
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It seems to be a difficult question to answer in these times with massively high resolution Bayer sensors in FF and MF cameras. People seem to have lost sight of the essential calling of the Foveon sensor -- rich, glorious colour and no colour moiré. This comes with the burden of poor low light performance at high ISO values and low-ish DR. Therefore you have to work hard to get the most out of your Foveon camera.

The following photo was shot on a 50MP medium format camera. I'm guessing you can spot a problem that simply wouldn't occur with a Sigma-Foveon camera.

Look at the waistcoat pattern.

The photo below was shot with a Sigma dp0 Quattro:

A SFD image made up of 7 frames shot at ISO 100 using ND, GND and CPL filters. This competes very well with the 102MP Fujifilm GFX 100S. I can't say it matches it but it comes very close indeed, and the colour is amazing.

The amount of work required to produce this type of image is quite demanding, but the results do make up for it in the end.

I really don't know enough about the technology to say how Sigma could produce a better Foveon sensor with a good DR, great colour and better ISO performance, but I do know that a solid and reliable full frame (or better still MF) camera would be a serious contender for landscape, studio and product photographers.

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