Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sigma is the only camera company that uses this sensor technology from Foveon, which Sigma bought up a couple years ago. One of the founders of the chip company was Carver Mead, one of the pioneer computer scientist so the company had a lot of "street cred" from the technologist standpoint. Carver Mead literally wrote books on VLSI design. On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Geir <ftwno1 at yahoo.no> wrote: > Hello all. > I think Kodak once upon a time also did use the same 3layer sensor? I > seems to remember that did not work out so good for Kodak or was it some > other that made the DSLR with same sensor? > Is it any here that had tried this Sigma camera? > Kind regards > Geir > > > ________________________________ > Fra: Frank Filippone <red735i at earthlink.net> > Til: 'Leica Users Group' <lug at leica-users.org> > Sendt: Onsdag, 29. februar 2012 5.23 > Emne: [Leica] Sigma SD-1 Lower Price..... > > B+H just sent me a note. the SD-1 ( with all those 46MP ) is now priced > at. > $2300... > > > > Now if someone would just bolt on a Leica R lens mount, and get the > aperture > all working.... > > > > Frank Filippone > > Red735i at earthlink.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>