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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sigma has launched its new digital SLR camera with interchangeable lens which is dubbed as Sigma SD1 Merrill. With this new innovation, Sigma has got the credit to manufacture the world's first full ...

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 ...

Because of the status that the new Sigma SD1 Merrill has carried with it since it was unveiled last year, it's easy to get lost in the hype of the Foveon sensor technology, so let's cover it first to ...

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 ...

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 ...