 Front of the SD9 with a 28-200mm lens | |
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Type | Digital single-lens reflex |
| Lens | |
| Lens | Interchangeable (Sigma SA mount) |
| Sensor/medium | |
| Sensor | 20.7 mm × 13.8 mm Foveon X3 sensor |
| Maximum resolution | 2268 × 1512 × 3 (10.3 million effective pixels, 3.43 megapixel output image size) |
| Film speed | 100–400 in 1 EV steps |
| Storage media | CompactFlash(CF) (Type I or Type II) and Microdrive(MD) |
| Focusing | |
| Focus modes | One-shot, Continuous, Manual |
| Focus areas | 1 point |
| Exposure/metering | |
| Exposure modes | Programmed, shutter-priority, aperture priority, manual |
| Exposure metering | TTL, full aperture, zones |
| Metering modes | 8-segment evaluative, center area (about 7.5%), Center-weighted average |
| Flash | |
| Flash | none, sync at 1/180 second |
| Shutter | |
| Shutter | electronic focal-plane |
| Shutter speed range | 15 s to 1/6000 s |
| Continuous shooting | up to 2.5 frames per second |
| Viewfinder | |
| Viewfinder | Optical, pentaprism |
| Image processing | |
| White balance | 6 presets, auto, and custom |
| General | |
| LCD screen | 1.8-inch (45 mm), 130,000 pixels |
| Battery | 4xAA NiMH or 2xCR-V3 |
| Weight | 785 g (body only) |
The Sigma SD9 is a digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) produced by the Sigma Corporation of Japan. The camera was launched at the Photo Marketing Association Annual Show on February 18, 2002. It was Sigma's first digital camera, and was the first production camera to use the unique Foveon X3 image sensor, which reads full color at each pixel site. Other sensors detect only one color at each site and interpolate to produce a full-color image.
The SD9 had two separate power systems; one set of CR-123A lithium batteries in the handgrip powered the camera functions, while another pair of CR-V3 batteries or four AA size rechargeable batteries in a battery tray in the base powered the digital functions. This split power system showed that the camera functions (inherited from Sigma's SA-9 film SLR) were not integrated at all with the digital half.
Another unusual feature of the SD9 was its "dust cover" filter right behind the lens mount, to prevent dust getting into the chamber and onto the sensor when changing lenses.[1]
Reviewers and users reported good results in good lighting, but poorer ones in low light using either high ISO sensitivity or longer exposures.
The SD9 was succeeded by an updated model, the SD10, which addressed the power and low-light issues.[2][3]
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- ^ "Sigma SD10". Archived from the original on 2006-10-16. Retrieved 2006-11-21.
- ^ "Digital Cameras - Sigma SD10 Digital Camera Review". Archived from the original on 2006-10-24. Retrieved 2006-11-21.