In what has been an absolute bumper week for camera launches ahead of the big CP+ photography expo in Japan, Sigma has unleashed its new kit - or rather a new twist on some old favourites. First up, ...

A Bayer image sensor, which is what you'll find on pretty much every other digital camera you can find, uses a special filter to produce colors. Red, green, and blue pixels are arranged in a grid ...

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 ...

Update: 23/02/12 Sigma has announced the UK price for the SD1 Merrill: The new SIGMA SD1 Merrill + 17-50mm f/2.8 EX DC OS HSM kit has a Suggested Retail Price of £2149.99 and has a body only SRP of ...

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 ...

Fans of Sigma's compact series will be delighted by the news of this new camera. Dubbed the DP3 Merrill, this compact camera comes with the same 46-megapixel (15.3-megapixel equivalent) Foveon X3 ...

Co-founder of @wareable & @theambient. I'd like to go to Legoland with Sean Connery and then afterwards, go for a lovely lamb lunch in the centre of Windsor. In what has been an absolute bumper week ...

There's only one word to describe the SD1's performance: Slow. The camera requires about 1.9 seconds to start and shoot, which is fine for a point-and-shoot model but unacceptable for an SLR. Its ...

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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 ...