"Popular Photography" in their April issue reports Sigma stabilized lenses and full frame later this year. Not a big ariticle, just a little sentence on page 22 under "What's comming in SLRs"
"Sigma expects to have image stabilized lenses by late this year and possibly a 24x36mm sensor, interchangeable lens digital AF SLR" (of course refering to the X3). It is likely that any exclusive deal is chip dependant, ie a different chip using the technology could be manufactured for other OEMs > -----Original Message----- > From: Aaron Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 26 March 2002 02:03 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Rome Photo show > > > On Monday, March 25, 2002, at 07:26 PM, Frits J. W�thrich wrote: > > > Electronics Weekly of two weeks ago announced that the > Foveon chip will > > be > > supported by Microsoft and Adobe! So that will really push > for support, > > and > > makes it less likely it will be a Sigma exclusive. > > Perhaps Sigma's exclusive is for a 35mm-style body? That way Foveon > could go ahead and make 645/6x6/6x7/4x5 backs, either with > someone else > or under their own name, and receive the marketing push from Sigma's > 35mm-style body. > > Maybe someone should start a letter writing campaign to Foveon for a > 645nII back? > > -Aaron > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
