Olympus quits camera business after 84 years

Re:Olympus quits camera business after 84 years by bitL on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:28PM (#23647826)

Unfortunately, real Foveon is a thing of the past, Sigma switched to a Bayer sensor in their latest "fp" camera and their last Foveon-based Quattro had 3 layers but a 4:2:2 pixel mosaic, making it no longer a "true Foveon". I owned SD1 Merrill and it was the sharpest camera I've ever used, but there is nothing comparable on the market these days.

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Re:Olympus quits camera business after 84 years by possibleworlds on Friday June 26, 2020 @12:39AM (#23648777)

All true. I do hold out hope for a “true” foveon return. And you can still grab Merrill models second hand, like I did about a year ago.

I mainly use an Olympus em5 mkII so I’m saddened by the OP news, although I will wait to see how it plays out before switching to Ricoh and/or Pentax. Guess I have a thing for the underdogs.

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Re:Olympus quits camera business after 84 years by numpad0 on Thursday June 25, 2020 @10:23PM (#23648067)

Sigma is/was totally planning to unveil fp with Foveon in CP+ until this January, before COVID-19 hit anyway...

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Re:Olympus quits camera business after 84 years by jeyashankher on Friday June 26, 2020 @12:38AM (#23648769)

I own and still use a DP2X. When things go right, the result is truly breathtaking. 80 to 90% of the photos I take with this are junk, but the remaining 10-20%, boy-oh-boy, truly memorable results!

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