Sigma's long-awaited full-frame Foveon sensor, the heart of a new camera that began development in 2016, is still at least a few years away.
Sigma’s long-awaited full-frame Foveon sensor, the heart of a new camera that began development in 2016, is still at least a few years away, and the company’s CEO adds that its arrival is not guaranteed,“We’ve found the potential manufacturing partner, but we have not reached an agreement with them. So to be honest, the product stage is still the same. We are still in stage two,” Yamaki says.
At that point, if no other issues are discovered, Sigma can move on to the next stage, which is coming to an agreement with a manufacturing partner. However, the project does not get any easier at that point. Yamaki explains that Sigma had a manufacturing partner at one point — back when it was making Foveon cameras — but no longer works with them. Its attempts to find a partner to replace that one have been unsuccessful.
“And then we brought the main development site from U.S. to Japan. Now our engineers working on it, but because of COVID, very difficult to communicate with the manufacturing partners. And also you might remember that there are serious silicon shortage problems,” he adds.With the entire timeline laid out like this, it’s easy to see now why it has taken so long to get to this point.
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