[Jeff @ Aug 29th 2006 8:08PM]

"I want a foveon chip for my Canons! :D"

Yeah, I think every other camera user should be envious of the Foveon. It's an elegant system that's really the equivalent of connecting a DVD player to your TV with component cables when everybody else is still using s-video. The Foveon is capable of a lot more detail and much more accurate color, all else being equal... the problem is that so far, other manufacturers have been able to keep up the detail wars with sheer brute force (i.e. more megapixels) and Sigma has lagged in noise levels and features. Their previous cameras also had some pretty serious flaws in their image processors - you basically *had* to use them in RAW mode. (This is what I usually do with my Canon, but it's still nice to put it in jpg mode for those times when I just want to take a hundred photos quickly and not worry about processing them later one by one.)

If I could have a Foveon in my Canon, with 8-10 megapixels (and I mean final image resolution, not Sigma's "multiply by three" method) and with Canon's DIGIC II processor and lenses... I mean, where do I sign up??

If Sigma has significantly bumped up the resolution on the sensor for the SD14, improved their image processor and features, and is selling the camera at a low price, they could have a winner. I own one Sigma lens (135-400 APO DG) and it is fabulous - I would not hesitate to buy one of their cameras if it managed to go toe to toe with my Canon in most areas and still had that Foveon. (Of course, now I'm invested in the EOS system, but if anything could ever make me switch, it'd be a technology like the Foveon.)