{"id":11458,"date":"2012-02-09T10:07:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T08:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ylovephoto.com\/en\/?p=11458"},"modified":"2012-02-08T22:21:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T20:21:32","slug":"sigma-sd1-back-to-mental-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/2012\/02\/09\/sigma-sd1-back-to-mental-stability\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigma SD1: Back to mental stability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After trying to sell their SD1 Digital SLR camera at the unreasonable price of $9,700 or 7,000\u20ac or \u00a36,199.99 (inc VAT), Sigma finally decided that customers are not completely wackos about the camera and just announced a much more normal price of $3300 (with a minimum advertised street price of $2200\/2500\u20ac).<\/p>\n<p>It may seem still too high, but it is in direct relation with the reality of the market for a rather exceptional digital sensor.<\/p>\n<p>The only difference is that Sigma re-brands the camera as <strong>SD1 Merrill<\/strong> (adding the name of the inventor of the Foveon sensor included in the camera).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11459\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11459\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sigma_SD1_Merrill.jpg\" alt=\"Sigma SD1 Merill\" title=\"Sigma_SD1_Merrill\" width=\"600\" height=\"471\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sigma_SD1_Merrill.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sigma_SD1_Merrill-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sigma_SD1_Merrill-480x376.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sigma_SD1_Merrill-235x184.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sigma_SD1_Merrill-75x58.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sigma_SD1_Merrill-350x274.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sigma_SD1_Merrill-220x172.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Sigma_SD1_Merrill-150x117.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sigma SD1 Merill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After trying to sell their SD1 Digital SLR camera at the unreasonable price of $9,700 or 7,000\u20ac or \u00a36,199.99 (inc VAT), Sigma finally decided that customers are not completely wackos about the camera and just announced a much more normal price of $3300 (with a minimum advertised street price of $2200\/2500\u20ac). It may seem still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[424],"tags":[647],"class_list":["post-11458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sigma-sd1","tag-sigma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovephoto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}