The purchase by Sigma of Foveon, opens many new posibilities. The advantages of this sensor that like film reads the three primary colors at each site, but at different depths - film has layers - makes the Bayer pattern and macro lenses not needed and also does away with the low pass filter and the interpolation needed to put it all together. The minimizing of reflections caused by the shiny micro lenses is onother great advantage. But the greatest benefit of the Foveon has been its incredible image quality with a smooth film like look free of many artifacts that plague other sensors.
There are two drawbacks, the sensor is still not very large -it has a multiplier factor of 1.7 and it is restricted to Sigma DRLR's that use only Sigma lenses. I have used many great Sigma lenses and still have a few at hand and some have been excellent. However, many shy away from them. As there are two main camps Nikon and Canon. it would be advantageous to Sigma and to many photographers if Sigma did as Kodak once did and made their DSLR's in Nikon and Canon mounts as well as Sigma's. A larger sensor [either FF or with a 1.3 factor] would also be great. It would open many new creative possibilities to many more photographers who have Nikon and Canon lenses. It would be a win win situation for everyone. We can only hope. It would be a great development.
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