There is one already:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sigmasd1
Did you mean a SD2 Merrill?
Ted
No, actually I think he want my Sigma SP seen in post #7. Titanium plated EM shielded internal parts optimized for skin effect, Magnelock™ mount; no need to screw the lens, just magnetic stick and lock it for better precision, leaf shutter lenses for compactness, cortex arm processor, 16 bit colour depth, wifi for pc control, open source firmware for the technicians...
Actually, in all seriousness, is the Foveon party over with the arrival of the Hass X1D?
Yes, it is expensive but it also is good value for money when you consider what you are getting.
And the portents are that Fuji and Sony will respond with even cheaper large format high density (e.g. 50mpx) sensor cameras and I am sure they will be significantly cheaper.
I am not about to get rid of my DPxM cameras (I did that once with the DP3M, regretted it within about two weeks and bought another!). But there is no doubt the DP0Q I own is not the same beast even though it does have a superb wide angle lens.
But there again as 'Sindbhad' says we really do have to wait for some 'professional' reviews. I expect Sean Reid will do one as he has always been a keen Sigma supporter.
Just my two cents
LouisB
I think the XD1 isn't a menace at all. Not the same budget. Same target but not same budget at all. I think that sigma want to fight with big marketing effort on the "art" plan and the "resolution" plan but they fail once devices tested. It is fun, it is cool, it is an old scheme but at the end you wont use it professionally especially because of heavy shady processing behind. All in one that make film more user friendly.
So yes it will be tested, the pros will provide technically perfect photos, the cons will provide crap photos and will point the flaws. All in one all of this do not matter. It is useless for street shooting because to heavy PP time behind and far too big camera. It is useless for many landscapes because it do not resolve like a Merrill and can show unrecoverable flaws (noise/blotches...) and need again lot of processing time behind the scene. It is mostly useless in studio because 1/180 Xsync, because the shutter is cheapskate. A DPQ will be a better studio camera. It is useless for any kind of action shoot, family, weeding, life, joy, apart far away surfers or birds who do not move on a branch. The SFD mode ? yea ... lets see how it work in landscape if there is even 1 knot of wind over the already water-painted background leafs.
At the end, most of the lenses used on it will cost the same price and often a bigger price than the camera itself.
Men, there is so many better and cheap cameras outhere ! So yea you'll not have the super resolution (most of you do not print at all) and anyway this super resolution is a Merrill time thing. But you'll have far more freedom to make a picture, you'll not waste your time adjusting colours/noise and even less time to develop the raw with all supported tolls available on the market. You'll make photos and will be more outdoor shooting than indoor post processing. THIS is photography, not the inverse !
The Quattro H might be better in general IQ but as I said, processing time might be disastrous.
If one should spend that much time behind a computer it should worth it, like the Merrill in his time. The Merrill worth it (
but it is the limit).
It is why ppl would pardon if they come with a big fat optimized Merrill. But what they did ? They did a in camera JPEG engine lol. Why not an in camera TIFF or DNG engine ????
Anyway I support SIGMA,but not in there mistakes.