Today the big CP+ show opened their doors in Japan. And for the first time Sigma is showing their new SD Quattro mirrorless system camera. These are the first “real world” images of the camera posted by DC.watch and DSLRmagazine.
Today the big CP+ show opened their doors in Japan. And for the first time Sigma is showing their new SD Quattro mirrorless system camera. These are the first “real world” images of the camera posted by DC.watch and DSLRmagazine.
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I love this camera, but the lens mount, is a shame,
to be honest, that camera design is really brilliant 🙂 it’ll make people that have OCD like me to get the external battery grip to fill up awkward looking edge
I think it was designed for the battery grip as it was designed for the Art lenses.
yeah, the grip design is brilliant. The rest seems…odd.
Let’s be different let’s be different let’s be………..no matter how but let’s be differert…..all others fail so let’s be different it’s the only thing that counts let’s be different let’s do shit but let’s be different……
worked for apple.
do you own a mac?
nope, but i hear they truly do exist..
I love the internals (spec) but I don’t like the external. It looks not very well thought out and lacks a lot of important buttons and wheels.
I like it, as I like my Quattro serie of cameras. No info at all about price and release date?
Marco, do you know if the new sd Quattro (APS-C) shares the same sensor of the dp Quattro models?
I think it has been slightly tweaked, since on the sd there’s a phase detection + contrast detection AF, while on dp Quattro cameras the AF is contrast detection only.
I bet image quality is basically the same.
Both “systems” have a high iso limit of 6400 (I only use them at base iso though).
The sd has a new processor, from what I can understand, but again I think the difference in image quality is negligeable.
The advantage of the sd system is a wide choice of good lenses.
Personally I’m interested in the H model, and I’m curious about the price.
Thanks! It all makes sense. For a moment I was tempted to buy myself into a sd Q system, but you can call this hardly a versatile camera. It’s a specialised product, as you already mentioned. If I had the money, I would jump though.
Instead I will start a Fuji (X-Pro2) relationship that will make a nice/natural addition to my experience with the Mamiya 7.
as big as a dslr… as ugly a sh*t.
Hahaha !!! I also just wanter to ask – “why the hell this camera is so ugly ???”
“There’s nothing about the SD Quattros that’ll make them any less niche than Sigma cameras have been before. Performance seems to be as slow as ever, and you really have to have specific reasons to want the Foveon sensor.”
http://www.theverge.com/2016/2/25/11111842/sigma-sd-quattro-hands-on
Because people tend to consider cameras as Swiss knives, more or less capable of everything. These Sigma are specialized tools, like a scalpel: if you know what you need and what to do, results are jaw dropping.
It’s silly pretending these cameras to be like a 1dx..
Try to consider them as a more portable medium format system.
I add that people (commenters on these fora) should try for real these cameras and look at results.
I don’t say you can’t use them for street photography, but that’s not the best kind of photography they’re aimed at.
No, people consider cameras as knives in general: a tool to cut. And in this analogy the Sigma is a spoon.
I can do wonders with the Sigma Quattro cameras, I can do wonders also with these Sd.. (Read, I can do a lot of things even with a spoon, because I know what I do, I know how to work around “limits”, and take advantage of qualities of the cameras)
Agree completely. I gave up my view cameras – 3 in total- to shoot a Sigma Merrill DP 2&3. View camera method; ISO 300, heavy tripod, show up at dawn, pray for no wind, cable release, wait for the weather to make the scene “right” for your vision (my best photo ever took 1.5 years for everything to come together), shutter delay to prevent camera shake, and work images one at a time in the darkroom….
You get amazing image quality out of these ugly pigs of a camera. You end up with a slow delieberate workflow. This is what Sigma is creating with the Merrills and Quatros.
Need something else choose another camera stupid!
excellent. a lot of patience required, though.
Dat flange…
Too bad these are worse in low light than my phone. This is the crown jewel of betamax system cameras. Cook it with a bayer sensor with good phase detection AF and I’m there in a heartbeat.
but we do not want bayer.
You’re a member of a very select few that always takes pictures in bright light. I certainly don’t miss loading up the camera with ISO 100 film and hoping it stayed sunny.
For studio work, this shouldn’t be a problem.
Not everyone needs the same thing.
Looks even uglier and frankensteinier than on sigmas procuct photos. Why the hell is the viewfinder in such an awkward position? And why is the grip cut off at the bottom so you are forced to buy a battery grip? Nice sensor tech though.
In many ways, it reminds me of Sony’s designs. Design a plain electronics box big enough to fix parts, make holes and slots to allow add-ons, and finish with some slick graphics. I hope it feels better than it looks, but it is interesting.
because with only one battery you take 5 pictures and you go home..
Now we know how will look a nikon mirrorles fullframe mirrorles if they stey with the f mount :p
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This seems like something the Nikkor fans fail to see.
i’m a nikon user and i see this :p
OK 🙂 So not all Nikon users!
One in 10,000 photograoghers would bother with SD mount. These Foveons would never make it big. Growth and development depends on enough volumes of sales and finding, which will never happen with an SD mount and Sigma’s limited camera making ability. How many people would want to invest in SD lenses? 12, maybe 15?
Same can be said about fujifilm cameras, or a bit more exotic the Pentax 654z.
Both are relatively popular systems.
And no you don’t need huge market numbers and volumes, you just need to sell what you make at projected numbers and a do it with a profit.
Ugh, why couldn’t they go the adapter route with a short flange distance? Who the hell is gonna go buy sigma lenses in their proprietary mount just for this camera?
This is not FF? Seems bigger than apsc. Or what’s that shiny purple surface in there?
That’s the “H” model, with the APS-H (1.3x crop) sensor.