Sigma fp Mirrorless Full-Frame Digital Camera with 45mm f/2.8 Contemporary DG DN Lens

Great hybrid camera Native lens selection is still limited.

As someone who owns an Alexa mini, a red Komodo, and this, I can honestly say the FP is designed much more as a cinema camera than stills. If you’re looking for a dual use camera, it works ok for stills but the AF is lacking and there are many more cameras at a similar price that can offer better photography ergonomics. However in cinema mode this camera is a beast with a little T5 or T7 external disk attached to shoot 4K 12bit RAW. It has amazing color rendition and the high light recover is great. The complains from people about this camera for video have been file size or lack of LOG. Yes lack of log is annoying, but with newest firmware 4.0 your false color finally accurately lets you know what your highlights really are. The processing power is lacking for the screen which means you’re always video an 8bit highlight crushed image. This pushed a lot of people away thinking it had horrible dynamic range. This is anything but. Drop a 12bit raw image into resolve and you can pull back almost 4 stops of highlights that the image makes it seem like is completely gone. This is due to the lack of log which so many people are used to seeing their highlights already “recovered”. This is an extra step before you can accurately see your highlight levels. However with all this said, the new false color makes this problem all go away. Although you can’t truly monitor it all the time in false color, it allows you to quickly check highlights and indeed you have about 3.5 extra stops to where on your screen you think you’ve already blown them. Annoying, yes, but it’s a compromise for the size of the camera and other image quality. In the end, cutting between Alexa footage isn’t that big of a leap. There’s tons of dynamic range and the colors are very pleasing and smooth. You DO need to know what you’re doing with this camera. It’s not a point and shoot camera. You need to understand it’s just a sensor block and raw output. You need a post workflow to truly see this camera shine. Once you’ve realized the average person who gives negative reviews on this camera is one that is used to low end point and shoot video or similar, you’ll realize these negative reviews are just from people who don’t know how to utilize this camera. It’s not perfect, yet for the job you need it to do for cinematography, it’s actually amazing. There are some short films shot with this camera that are just beautiful and you’d never know it wasn’t shot on something more advance. One last thing. You MUST record using external drives and 12bit raw settings to get the most out of this camera because of the lack of log. You miss out on the highlight recover even at 10bit. So if you test at 10, and aren’t happy, that’s why. Once you’re in 12bit mode, the entire full range of the cameras dynamic range completely changes. No real rolling shutter to speak of, no overheating, you can rig it to be as large as you want with a few cage options. PL adapter, etc. Also if you’re worried about the huge 12bit files going to an ssd, for about $400 you can record ProRes RAW using a Ninja V. You get to keep all the lovely dynamic range and info, but in a compressed raw format that’s much more manageable. This camera is not for photographers, it’s a digital pocket cinema camera that can produce amazing images if you play by it’s rules.

18 FPS Continuous shooting Face/Eye Detection HDR Shooting 12-bit Cinema DNG Tiny Full Frame beast!

The big selling point for this camera — pressed in a number of articles and videos on the net, apparently with Sigma's encouragement — is that this camera is a great streaming camera. Malarky. One video ("Simple Live Streaming With Sigma fp" on Youtube, attached to a blogpost on the Sigma site by Rubidium Wu), states "there's no intermediate box there's no software to learn you literally just connect a USB C cable to the USB C port and you connect the same cable to your camera then you open something" True, you can get the streaming going by simply plugging the camera in. But even at the settings recommended, there's a terrible audio delay which requires the use of software like OBS to fix. If you're expecting this to function like a LogicPro webcam, but only better, don't: The only useable setup is cumbersome and complicated — and astonishingly so given the price of the camera.

This camera is not cinematic.Auto focus is really bad.

It’s a cinema camera, do not expect auto focus out of this camera. But, having at least contrast based auto focus is already a big plus. Stabilization is NOT BAD as all!! And pictures quality, the colors are AMAZING!!!

The Sigma FP full-frame mirror-less camera is almost the perfect webcam for video conferencing, with beautiful image quality & depth of field, a massive heat-sink for continuous operation, and built-in streaming as a USB Video Camera (UVC) via the USB-C port, except for the fatal flaw that it won't draw power from USB while streaming, so the battery only lasts about an hour. It also has the minor flaw that the controls are locked out while streaming in UVC mode, so it is not possible to adjust the exposure without unplugging the camera from the USB port. Hopefully these problems can be fixed in a firmware update.

It’s not worth it if you just want a camera that works well out of the box. The video is really shaky and theres no stabilization. Plus the auto focus is horrendous, fading in and out. I know all this because we had a Sony a7 previously and it didn’t have any of these issues plus the lens was fully capable. The Sigma might be worth it if you buy a whole bunch of extra stuff but not worth it for the average person.

Nulla da dire prodotto che si prende per scelta non per caso. Preso per fare riprese in DNG e funziona benissimo. Venditore serio e preciso

【良い点】 まずこのカメラ、とにかくデザインが秀逸です。無駄をそぎ落としたミニマルで武骨なスタイルは唯一無二。手にした瞬間から所有欲を満たしてくれます。そして描写力も抜群。45mm F2.8 DG DNレンズとの相性も良く、開放でもシャープで空気感を残した絵が撮れるのが魅力。SIGMAらしい硬質かつ繊細なトーンで、ポートレートや街角スナップが気持ちよく撮れます。 フルサイズセンサー搭載でこのサイズ感、しかも価格も非常に良心的。コスパ面では他のフルサイズ機と比べても頭ひとつ抜けていると思います。動画性能も意欲的で、RAW動画出力やカスタマイズ性の高いUIなど、プロユースも意識された作り込みが感じられます。 【気になる点】 液晶モニターが固定式＆晴天下ではかなり見づらいため、屋外撮影はややストレス。外付けビューファインダーや日除けが欲しくなります。 また手ブレ補正は非搭載で、スナップ撮影など手持ちでは気を遣います。シャッター速度をしっかり意識していないと、意図せずブレてしまうことも。あわせてAF（オートフォーカス）の精度・速度は控えめで、被写体が動く場面ではピントが抜けやすい印象。特に人物や動物の追従に関しては、過信は禁物です。 【総評】 「撮る喜び」や「モノとしての美しさ」を味わいたい人にはたまらないカメラ。 描写力・デザイン・コストパフォーマンス、すべてがハイレベルですが、AFや手ブレ補正の弱さなど、万人向けではなく“使いこなしてこそ光る”一台です。 じっくり構えて撮りたい方、スナップや物撮りが中心の方には文句なしにおすすめ。逆に「とにかく簡単に失敗せず撮りたい」人にはややクセのある機種かもしれません。 通好みの玄人志向なミラーレス。SIGMAらしさを楽しみたい方には間違いなく刺さる名機です。

I bought this camera for shooting videos and films. It is a tiny beast! Where else can you find a camera (any size) that can shoot 100% uncompressed RAW video that doesn't cost 2-5 times more than this little gem? I also use it to shoot regular, compressed video which is only 8-bit. I wish SIGMA would upgrade the firmware to provide 10-bit option as well. But the best thing about it, is how small and portable it is, and how modular it is. It has been reported that it was used to film the cockpit sequences of the recent Tom Cruise Top Gun movie, no other camera could fit in there that could provide this much quality in the image. I sold my much larger and heavier Ursa mini, which I also loved but it was getting too big and heavy to lug around in Tokyo.

This FF camera shoots a good still image BUT only if you adjust the settings. Out of the box, the image is overly contrasty and dark. Far worse than my iphone! Needs some processing after shooting for best results. Physically takes getting used to and needs plenty of accessories to work well. eg the grip HG-11 is a must. As is the LVF-11 loupe. This loupe gives a very large viewfinder experience and makes it enjoyable to use but makes the camera huge. No anti-shake and slow auto-focus. But for Leica M shooters, this is just fine. Shooting manual focus M lenses using an adaptor is a good experience. The loupe finder makes focusing MORE ACCURATE than focusing with M bodies. And you can see the actual DoF of any f-stop since the viewfinder is live. So you can tune the bokeh of the shot. Something I couldn't do with my M body.

SONYが性能、Canonが耐久性と操作性だとすると、SIGMAは個性だと思いました。 ■良いところ ・軽量コンパクトで高画質なので、スナップ写真をフルサイズで撮るなら最高です。 ・必要な機能を追加して、本格動画録画には向いていると思います。 ■悪いところ ・やっぱりAFです。反応がSONYなどに比べてまだまだです。 ・ホットシューをよく使う人にとっては付属のアダプターが必要になるのでコンパクトではなくなります。 ・電池の持ちが悪いです。最低でもバッテリー3〜4個はあったほうが良いです。 ・Wi-Fiでスマホに保存できません。SNSにリアルタイムでアップしたい方は工夫が必要です。 ・ビューファインダーがありません。ピント合わせは基本的に液晶モニターのみです。 けして無難な機種ではないと感じました。個性を追求したい人向けではないかと思います。