Short history of Sigma cameras

ArvoJ
April 24, 2023
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    Team
    Sept. 9, 2023, 1:54 p.m.
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    Unfortunately not. Quick search did not reveal anything new either - most likely they as part of Sigma do not have any public facing website or other information channel retained.

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    Team
    Sept. 9, 2023, 2:40 p.m.
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    In search of Sigma cameras history, I encountered interesting fact (sourced from wiki.alquds.edu/?query=Kodak_DCS_Pro_SLR/c) (my emphasis):

    The Kodak Professional DCS Pro SLR/c is a 13.5 megapixel digital SLR camera produced by Eastman Kodak. It is full frame—it uses an image sensor that is the full size of a 35 mm (36x24 mm) frame. It is compatible with Canon EOS (EF mount) lenses. The camera was launched on March 18, 2004, and incorporates the internal systems of the previous Nikon-compatible SLR/n in a Sigma SA9 SLR body.

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    Removed user
    Sept. 9, 2023, 3:04 p.m.
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    namaste sattva-ji

    Your are very welcome to look in my website for mostly old Foveon stuff:

    kronometric.org/phot/sensor/fov/

    No GUI for that page please do your own navigation ...

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    Members 40 posts
    Sept. 10, 2023, 6:35 a.m.
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    Namaste xpatUSA!

    Thank you for the link to your Sigma related resource. I had a look and some of the stuff i do recall as having saved to my hard drive for reference...a long time ago!

    Regards,
    Sattva

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    Members 40 posts
    Sept. 10, 2023, 6:40 a.m.
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    Hello ArvoJ,

    Quite a few links in your online resource are not working/dead. An update is required for keeping the resource current.

    Regards,
    Sattva

    P.s: I have SPP Windows versions going back to 3.5 and almost all the promotional material / brochures (SD14 onwards) from official Sigma websites...which presently have vanished. If you would like to host them on your online resource, i can share them with you.

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    Team
    Sept. 10, 2023, 1:04 p.m.
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    Thanks for bringing such sad state of things into attention! I have not changed that page for years...
    Well, it takes few days to check links and provide archived content, if available. Lately there was article on dpreview about rotting bits (images etc) on internet - apparently many (if not most of) informative (but old) resources are tend to vanish :(

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    Members 40 posts
    Sept. 11, 2023, 3:34 p.m.
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    You are welcome ArvoJ. I can send you the links which i checked and were not working to make it faster for you to update the page!

    Regards,
    Sattva

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    Members 549 posts
    Sept. 11, 2023, 3:35 p.m.
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    Team
    Sept. 11, 2023, 6:16 p.m.
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    Thank you for offer! But main problem is not finding broken links, searching for missing content on wayback machine takes more time.

    Anyway, I made my old'n'good Sigma page current. Like I said (and wrote on my page), this is sad business:

    Year 2023: This page can be provided as an example of information vanishing from internet. Most links are stale, much of valuable information (either images, pages or whole sites) is lost irrecoverably.

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    Members 40 posts
    Sept. 12, 2023, 6:07 a.m.
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    Thanks once again!

    And if there is anything that i can assist you with, please let me know.

    Regards,
    Sattva

    P.s: I do not have a website presently. BUT, i am looking into getting one up and running 😃, once that materializes, i will also put up a Sigma page...and share the link with you.