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

Great hybrid cameraNative 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 shootingFace/Eye DetectionHDR Shooting12-bit Cinema DNGTiny 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.