The next Foveon camera?

Doppler9000 wrote:

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 market has not dictated anything within the Foveon market niche. None of the Bayer cameras produce satisfactory outcomes for Foveon fans.

Low light is not a deciding factor in the Foveon niche market segment. Neither is AF or even data transfer or video performance.

Higher resolution is doable with Foveon. 8k Merrill or 10k Quattro in a full frame format. Or even higher as a medium format.

The pure stills market has 100 MP cameras with 33x44mm sensors with IBIS, pretty good AF, at <$6K.

That is medium format. And it ain't pretty at 8k TV screens, because of interpolation. Or, alternatively it might be pretty at 25MP, thus possibly smaller than a 27MP Merrill.

And the price of medium format cameras is quite high.

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

If Sigma manages an 8k Merrill or a 10k Quattro in a full frame format, then either of those would be a success within its existing niche market segment.

Based on what logic? Based on baseline set by Merrills and Quattros.

-Tarmo