David - I was really high on the Sigma SD9. The Foveon technology made perfect sense to me. Back in school while studying for BAS (Elec. Engineering), we had an impromptu discussion during lunch break about how different light wavelengths travel through silicon and how you could apply that to imaging arrays. 4 years later, Foveon X3 comes out. Pretty slick for a bunch of guys who were living on Ramen, Poptarts, and 2-3 hours sleep a night. :) I see it as being a huge technology once it matures a little. Canon, Nikon and Fuji could probably have really put the technology through its paces with what they already know about digital cameras. Being Sigma's first one though, there are a few things that bother. The biggest is that you have a camera that was originally $1799 for the body that is now selling for about $1299 street. It's in the same price structure as the EOS 10D, Nikon D100 and Fuji Finepix S2 Pro. And yet, it has a maximum ISO rating of 400 with grain evident. The 10D is ISO 100-3200, D100 is ISO 200-1600, S2Pro is ISO 100-1600. Sigma's decision to also go with Uncompressed RAW only for their saved images boggles my mind. No internal JPEG, so you have to convert every image before you can save it for viewing by anything else. I think you give Sigma 2 more cameras and they will put serious pressure on the pro-sumer market with the 3rd generation Foveon. They'll have a tough time matching the pro DSLRs though. Canon and Nikon have a huge advantage in having produced the 1D and D1, respectively and then folding that into the 1DS and D1h/x. Look at the features of the 1D. Even though it's only a 4MP camera, I would take it over any prosumer camera any day. The thing is a work of art. 1DS is just plain scary. -=>Donald