Category: Sigma SD1

Sigma SD1

SD1: Sigma wants to fail

There is no other possible explanation to today’s announcement by Sigma Corp. The published two critical bits of information about the Sigma SD1: Its availability date: early June Its MSRP price: $9,700 or 7,000€ or £6,199.99 (inc VAT) Even thinking that the SD1 is competing with medium format photo cameras, the 46 MP DSLR will…

Sigma and the Japan earthquake

Sigma is one photo company which did not tell us much about the damages from the March 11 earthquake. Apparently (according to talks with people who where actually working in the plant at quake time), their Fukushima Yamagun/Aizu factory is mostly undamaged (and nearly 100 km from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant). It is…

Photokina, it’s started! (continuous update)

Of course, when the doors of the Photokina opened in Köln, Germany this morning, we found the recently announced new products, including: Canon EOS 60D Nikon D3100 Nikon D7000 Olympus E-5 Pentax K-5 Pentax K-r Sony SLT-A33 Sony SLT-A55 Sony Alpha 560 Sony Alpha 580 But, let’s also see what the camera and accessories manufacturers…