The announcement was made in a letter to Sigma customers Monday by Kazuto Yamaki, Sigma’s chief executive officer. In addition, the company will add a new Merrill camera series including the DP1 ...

It'd be too easy to describe this as "one for the purists," but it really rather is. The Sigma SD1 eschews any pretenses of being a video camera and gets right on with the business of taking gorgeous ...

Now, I’ll be the first to admit that the Foveon sensor has its advantages, but I’m not sure the fact that your sensor has three layers means you get to triple the number of megapixels the camera “has.

You could be forgiven for thinking that Japan's Sigma is just a maker of lenses for the cameras of other companies like Canon and Nikon, but that's not the case. The company broke into the digital ...

Ronkonkoma-based Sigma Corporation unveiled its latest high-end single-lens reflex camera to the world Monday during the Photokina 2010 exhibition in Cologne, Germany. Dubbed the Sigma SD1, the ...

The SD1’s price has been dropped by over 50 percent to $3,300 due to “new efficiencies in the camera’s production.” The camera has also been renamed the SD1 Merrill in honor of the co-creator of the ...

RONKONKOMA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sigma Corporation of America, a leading researcher, developer, manufacturer and service provider of some of the world's most impressive lines of lenses, cameras and ...

Sigma has announced the new Sigma DS1 DSLR, which features a 46 megapixel 24×16mm APS-C X3 direct image sensor, plus a lightweight body made from magnesium alloy. The SIGMA SD1 features a 24×16mm ...

We heard about the SD1 back in September: a Foveon-based DSLR with 45 megapixels, as they define them, though the “megapixel” rating is difficult to compare when you have different sensor patterns ...

The $9,700 SLR's Foveon sensor captures three colors per pixel rather than the usual one. Sigma is betting people will pay for that difference. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

The Sigma SD1 Merrill is named in honour of the late Richard 'Dick' Merrill (1949-2008), the engineer who developed the Foveon X3 image sensor that's at the heart of Sigma cameras. Rather than being a ...

If there's one name in the camera business that is synonymous with endless special edition hardware in ever more exotic materials, its Sigma. Wait. What? Yes, Sigma is pulling a Leica with this ...