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I've had my eye on this camera for a long time, it's quite an interesting one but I don't think it's great for general purpose. I've put a collect at store order in which will be ready next week (although no price on the confirmation mail), just wondering if I should home deliver it to make sure I get it. Main reason to collect it in store is so it can be hidden, just picked up the E-3 kit at 1700 pounds so I'm not supposed to be buying any more for a while...
The SD14 uses a foveon sensor which is very different to the sensors used traditionally in digital cameras - normally you have sites on the sensor which collect, red, green or blue (twice as many green I think it is to the other two) which are merged together to produce the variety of colours. In a Foveon sensor you have three layers instead, as light hits the sensor the top layer absorbs one colour, the next layer absorbs another colour and the bottom layer the final colour. This means at every site on the sensor you are measuring all three colours which in theory produces more vibrant colours.
The rest of the SD14 is not so great though with the main problem being the Sigma mount which only Sigma produce lenses for - I really wish they had produced a 4/3 mount instead as Sigma lenses aren't that easy to get a hold of cheap and the Sigma mount is a bit of a dead end anyway. The camera body is fairly mediocre in terms of feature set and performance, the raw converter software is slow.
If you are interested in this camera, do a good bit of research first simply because unlike the comment above I think there are major differences between this body and others.
John
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