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https://www.dpreview.com/interviews/1362380171/sigma-ceo-kazuto-yamaki-still-committed-to-foveon


Foveon: The full-frame quest continues

Many Foveon enthusiasts hoped that Sigma's next camera would be a long-awaited full-frame Foveon model. That dream didn't materialize, but Yamaki confirmed Sigma's continued commitment to the project, revealing details about the development process.

"Yeah, of course," he reiterates regarding his interest, explaining that progress involved collaboration: "We have been working with a university. It's a joint project with a university in Japan. We worked with a researcher, a professor."
Sigma SD Quattro H camera
The SD Quattro H from 2016 was one of Sigma's last Foveon cameras, utilizing a Foveon X3 Quattro sensor.

The journey has required significant effort and resetting of expectations."It takes a long time, so after we brought the project from the US to Japan, we had to start from scratch," he remarks.

"We have two stages for development, the technology development and the product design. It took longer than we expected for the technology development. We made several pixel prototypes. It's not a full-frame sensor, but we made prototype pixels, and we experienced some design errors."

"Every time we make a prototype, we find some kind of issues, and every time we find some issues, we fix the problem. And we are now almost at the last stage of the technology development. If everything is done, then we start the product development."

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