NEW CAMERA

So we have now the Sigma BF camera, but after analyzing the overall core specifications and watching many online reviews, specifically those who have visited Japan by the invite of Sigma, and a lot of reviews have surfaced by the hands of many people out there, so the sum of all those things is mentioned below.

Innovative thing – the breakthrough technology that came along with the Sigma BF camera

The unibody design – the unibody design is a unique design specifically crafted by the engineers of Sigma, a single sheet of aluminum and an unbreakable structure, and with that structure, I am very confident that heat dissipation will not be a big problem for Sigma BF if the sensor, which is not using IBIS mechanism, has its heat sink attached to the body of the camera, then overheating will never be an issue in this camera.

The biggest advantage of this camera is its internal memory – 2330GB of SSD drive inside the camera, so you don’t have to worry about putting extra memory cards in the body. You just have to take out all your data through the USB port of the camera.

So, these two are the biggest advantages that came along with the Sigma BF camera – the new and unique design and the internal memory that we are getting inside the camera.

Now, the question is – for whom is this camera made?

So let us consider this camera is made for photographers only.

If you are a photographer, then you have to accept this camera with a very fresh mind since, of course, it doesn’t have extensive manual control over It, which is kind of a thing loved by a professional photographer. Made for beginners with minimum control and a completely new user interface.

Another thing that you will miss in the body design is the variable display screen that nowadays photographers love to have for compositional freedom. +1 more thing that you may miss as a photographer is the presence of an electronic viewfinder and, of course, no hot shoe is there.

Now, let’s dive into the internal core specifications of the camera. We have the same sensor that we have seen in the Panasonic S5II / S5IIX camera, but in S5II and S5IIX, with the presence of a 24-megapixel hybrid CMOS sensor, we also get sensor-shift image stabilization mechanism, which is absent inside the Sigma BF camera. We do not have any IBIS inside the body. Another thing that you will miss as a photographer is the presence of only and only electronic shutter – no mechanical shutter is available right now. One more thing that surprised me while reading the specifications of the camera is the maximum continuous shooting of the camera remains limited to 8 frames per second.

So, it does carry a lot of features, but again, it does have a lot of limitations too, so if you are a photographer, you have to consciously pick this camera with all the limitations it already has inside it.

Obviously, this camera is not made for content creators

because it doesn’t carry any vari-angle display screen on the rear side, no content creator can create a video without framing themselves properly. The other two things that are also missing in this camera are the presence of headphone and microphone ports, which are generally present in all the cameras that we get in this price range and which are very essential.

Now finally, the latest analysis is that this camera is made for professional cinematographers since we are able to record 10-bit internal video in 4K 30fps mode. You also can record videos up to 6K resolution, so it is very advanced in terms of video recording capability, but again, we miss the basic ports that should be present in the body of the camera, like having at least a microphone input port. Major ports that a cinematographer may require are missing, and how can a professional cinematographer record high-quality audio when there is no option to do that?

Overall, this particular Sigma BF camera does come with breakthrough technology, a very innovative design, and interesting specifications

but some of the limitations make this camera limited to very specific photographers and video users. So, the camera is good, but due to its set of limitations, the camera is not able to impress a huge mass of photographers or content creators out there. It does need some improvement – maybe in the BF Mark II, we will have some basic upgrades and some more ports that will help us to utilize this camera properly.