I agree that the RAW only was absolutely not their Achilles heel. Their optics are getting better, but they need to work on build quality, reliability, and focus issues. I have a few, but don't recommend them.
Jeffery On Nov 23, 2010, at 9:22 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > There's so much wrong with the SD series DSLR's (and their SA series > film SLR predecessors) that it's hard to nail down anything close to a > crucial weakness. No JPEG wasn't a big issue given that pretty much > everything else about the Sigma's sucked worse (Bodies that would have > been obsolete if 10 years older, AF which barely kept up with a Maxxum > 7000, overly small, low-resolution sensors with ridiculous marketting, > an inability to get good files over ISO 400, bad metering, very > limited lens options, poor handling, high pricing, an inability to > ship within 2 years of announcement, etc). The one thing the Sigma's > have going for them is very nice per-pixel sharpness (the much vaunted > colour accuracy of the Foveon X3's is in fact non-existent, Bayer > sensors produce significantly more accurate colour due to having less > channel overlap. The only colour-related advantage of Foveon is that > colour aliasing is impossible). > > -Adam > > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Jeffery Smith <jsmith...@bellsouth.net> > wrote: >> One of the ironic mistakes that Sigma made was having RAW only dSLRs. That >> ensured that the photographer had the maximum potential files, but because >> the camera was ostensibly aimed at amateurs, it backfired badly as being >> perceived as a crucial weakness of the camera. John Bean (UK) used to blow >> me away with his Sigma dSLR images. >> >> Jeffery >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
