As many said before, the only thing who can hook someone on a foveon camera is rendering at pixel level; all the other features are kind of nightmare. At a colour level, and after many years of use, only the DP3m show the best colour rendition in the merrill line. Some colour gradations aren't subtle sometime due to the 12 bit (?) data output (the foveon scream to a true 16bit data output). The difference in colour accuracy with the quattro is also because it is a 14 bit data output.
That said, SIGMA missed the boat of quality at many levels. They should have, for once, abandoned their AF in the DP series by incorporating a true telemeter ala Leica. Slow camera, slow focus, slow operation but the pleasure of a rangefinder with super IQ. No more focus by wire, less batteries whore. Easy task because of the fixed lens. Of course live view stay the same.
They should have made a longer or faster lens for the DP series. Why not a 70mm f1.4, well engineered, with apd filter like fuji or something really designed for bokeh ?
In the SD line they should have made an improved SD merrill with LIVE VIEW... it is a real shame that the DP always has liveview and not the SD... since they use the same sensor. We never heard any explanations for this problem from sigma...
Yes, the original DP2 (and DP2s) was holly grail for many shooters because it was the first ever APS-C compact camera. As I said, many leica users bought one back in the day, for per pixel sharpness, global rendering and ultra portability.
The heavy blotching-green corners yadiyada found in those early camera was part of their charm. It was a kind of natural cross processing and it gave a soul to many pictures like expired film or something like that. It was magic.
Now you see ppl vouching on the quattro ... saying that the sandy look is the pinnacle of film grain ... It is utter ridiculous. All of this is utter ridiculous and it is not your fault guys. It is SIGMA fault.
Have you never heard this ? "
Sigma Dp camera are the poor man leica !"
I heard it for years because it was kind of true at a time because men behind this view was exceptional : Michihiro Yamaki as boss & Shinzo Fukui (aka gris) as communication manager/tester. Michihiro is no longer on hearth and Shinzo is no longer a sigma employee (maybe to sensible ??).
The Quattro is specially designed for metrosexuals IMHO. Iphone design, supposedly easier in use... "
Buy our cheap camera and then, buy our few art lenses. Maybe one of those lenses will address all the shortcoming of this cheap sensor !! ho ... and shoot jpeg "
With the Quattro Sigma jumped from dedication to scale economy. Nothing more nothing less. Behind smile and PR they play a dangerous shark game and the "new" team try to impose their new view, a stinky view.
Sigma cameras are no longer the poor man leica, at all. They are only weird disposable gadgets for weird ppl or ppl who think they are specials because they shoot something other don't have.
Meanwhile for 700 bucks you can buy a D700 and you can invest in real compatible lenses like a 50 f1.2 or a zeiss 21 ... At the end IQ and functionality are far superior at a photographic level. D700 + a prime as as big as the quattro + art ... go figure lol !