Sigma has introduced the BF, a brand new 24.6-megapixel full-frame, mirrorless digicam that has a built-in SSD relatively than an a CFexpress or SD card slot. The corporate is thought for making lenses and unconventional cameras, and the BF’s design and distinctive strategy to storage undoubtedly match the invoice.
The Sigma BF is milled from a single block of aluminum, and appears it, with principally flat, angular edges that do not appear totally designed for human fingers, save for a thumb relaxation on the again. That is all a part of the BF’s intentionally minimalist strategy, which extends to the shortage of textual content on the physique of the digicam and the digicam’s haptic buttons. In addition to the thumb relaxation, the again of the BF encompasses a high-resolution show, pill-shaped standing monitor for highlighting no matter setting you are adjusting, a dial for navigating menus, an choice button, an influence button and a playback button. The highest of the BF is even less complicated: there’s simply two microphones and a shutter button.
The BF is appropriate with L-mount lenses, and on high of pictures, its 35mm full-frame sensor can seize 6K video, and helps issues like HEVC encoding and recording at as much as 120 frames per second. The built-in 230GB SSD within the BF is “able to storing greater than 14,000 JPEG information, 4,300 uncompressed RAW pictures or 2.5 hours of video on the highest-quality setting,” in accordance with Sigma. Like loads of fashionable mirrorless cameras, the BF additionally comes with a number of totally different colour modes that may tweak the look of your photograph. Choices embody modes like normal and wealthy, and colour particular settings like powder blue, forest inexperienced and sundown purple.
All of that sounds cool in concept, particularly in the event you’re keen on a digicam with an idiosyncratic design, however you must be keen to pay for it. PetaPixel writes that the Sigma BF can be out there body-only for $1,999 in April 2025, in both black or silver.