The next Foveon camera?

tarmov wrote:

Jozef M wrote:

And what Roland Karlsson and Arvoy and Eric Fossum thought about Foveon.

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3563904

The scientists saw Foveon as a dead end even then, I conclude this anyway.

Those scientists were obviously wrong (or your interpretation was misleading), the last 9 years have already shown that.

How so?  None of the fundamental flaws of the Foveon have been overcome, have they?

And market situation has not changed considerably.

You keep saying this.  It is patently untrue.

All Sigma has to do is achieve comparable success as it did with Merrill against other cameras at that time. Or comparable success with Quattro.

The other cameras are now much better, in ways that the market has dictated - better low-light performance, better AF, faster data transfer, better performance with ultra-wide lenses, better video performance, and/or higher resolution, etc.

The pure stills market has 100 MP cameras with 33x44mm sensors with IBIS, pretty good AF, at <$6K.  We are on the threshold of FF and MF 3 um sensors.  The FFF would be entering a much different market than did the Merrill.

That is not an insurmountable goal. Sigma can continue in its niche for years, even decades.

You have no knowledge of the technical challenges facing Sigma, the yield they might achieve on sensors, the hurdles in the signal processing, what sort of crosstalk the sensor will generate with wide lenses, etc., etc.

Given all of the things you don’t know, how, as an expert in decision analysis, can you make declarative statements like this?

-Tarmo