During Cine Gear 2023, we sat down with Kazuto Yamaki, CEO of SIGMA, to discuss the company’s latest releases, including the SIGMA 65mm T1.5 Cine lens and the recent partnership between Atomos and SIGMA to unlock camera-to-cloud (C2C) for the fp and fp L cameras. Also, if you’re interested in the upcoming Foveon image sensor, this is your chance for some insight into the current development. Ever since SIGMA acquired Foveon and their unique Foveon sensor design, filmmakers have been curious about when the Foveon sensor will find its way into a new SIGMA camera like an updated SIGMA fp or fp L. CEO Yamaki-san revealed that it is still actively in development (we continually give you updates on this project). Although the company has assigned multiple engineers to this project, they continually run into technical issues. No fp-sized Foveon-powered camera Foveon Three-Layer-Sensor-Architecture. Image credit: SIGMA Yamaki-san also revealed that the Foveon sensor needs a very powerful processor, which also requires a lot of power. So in order to make this technology usable, SIGMA will need to couple this with a large and powerful battery, which in return will make the camera a lot larger than the current fp form factor. We can only remain optimistic and hope that this sensor will be incorporated into a camera sometime in the future! SIGMA 65mm T1.5 Cine Prime SIGMA announced the development of the 65mm T1.5 FF High-Speed and 65mm T2.5 FF Classic Cine Prime lenses in late 2022 (we reported) and...
Published By: CineD - Tuesday, 6 June, 2023