Cool digital rf, sort of...

[mc_vancouver]

Okay, this isn't a rangefinder but it looks like a really neat new digital camera that is well advanced in terms of what it should deliver in picture quality, with a 14 megapixel CMOS sensor, 20.7 x 13.8mm in size! It hasn't been released yet, but Sigma has a really nice web page on it, and they have a great pdf brochure on the final page, under specifications, unfortunately I cant copy the download link directly as it is a flash site. Something to think about if you, like me, want something small, light, high quality, and can't afford an Epson or a Leica.

 

[Lemures-Ex]

I would be very interested in this camera if only they made the lens an f/2.8 instead of f/4. It just isn't quite fast enough for low light photos IMO. Although it does look pretty 🙂

Still I think it is an important step in the development of digital cameras and a very big step for Sigma. They seem to be focussing more and more on quality.

Of course we have yet to see photos from it 🙂

Now if they will just make a version with a nice RF on top...

Jared

 

[MadMan2k]

I'm very interested in this camera, but it'll have to put out good files for me to actually buy one. If the lens is sharp at f/8 and the noise is reasonable, it's all good.

The SD14 seems pretty promising though, here's some eye candy shot with one that doesn't really show much considering the variables, but it is the same sensors. Not safe for conservative workplaces.

http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/weekend/2007/03/30/5955.html

 

[mc_vancouver]

I agree about the f/stop, it really bugs me that there is no good fast lens on a point and shoot or fixed lens digital camera. Where are the f/1.5's and so on? Why can't this be done? Doesn't anyone care? I love low light photography, and hatehatehate flashes.

 

[pvdhaar]

I agree about the f/stop, it really bugs me that there is no good fast lens on a point and shoot or fixed lens digital camera. Where are the f/1.5's and so on? Why can't this be done? Doesn't anyone care? I love low light photography, and hatehatehate flashes.

I guess mega zooms is where the market is at the moment. That and image stabilisation. Which again allows for even slower (and cheaper to manufacture) lenses. Quite saddening to see things getting worse instead of better.. And as long as this market isn't saturated, there isn't any drive to introduce the kind of camera that we are waiting on.

 

[Kat]

I guess mega zooms is where the market is at the moment. That and image stabilisation. Which again allows for even slower (and cheaper to manufacture) lenses. Quite saddening to see things getting worse instead of better.. And as long as this market isn't saturated, there isn't any drive to introduce the kind of camera that we are waiting on.

At least now they're putting more room for higher ISOs, though the ISO800 of my Canon A710IS is hardly usable. Maybe, for available light photography, higher ISO has become the easier way to go than faster lens.

 

[Lemures-Ex]

I guess mega zooms is where the market is at the moment. That and image stabilisation. Which again allows for even slower (and cheaper to manufacture) lenses. Quite saddening to see things getting worse instead of better.. And as long as this market isn't saturated, there isn't any drive to introduce the kind of camera that we are waiting on.

That's why we here all shoot 20+ year old cameras 🙂

Jared

 

[Terao]

f/2.4 on the Ricoh GR-D?
And the upcoming zoom version will be a 24mm f/2.4 at the wide end...

I'm interested in the DP1 as well (and the new Ricoh)

 

[ywenz]

I figure this camera will not have very good high ISO performance. However, if it did, like the Canon 400D sensor, then an f/4 lens is more than enough for most scenarios, and it would be a great all purpose walk-around compact camera.

Sigma really should implement manually coupled focusing mechanism due to the smaller DOF with this camera.