On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:51:07 +0000, Bruce
wrote:

Rich wrote:

Bowser wrote in
news
On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 08:23:46 -0800 (PST), RichA
wrote:

Not a surprise I guess, given they only have one camera and it will
likely be cancelled soon anyway.

http://four-thirds.org/en/fourthirds/lens_chart.html

No surprise here. But Sigma has not bailed on micro 4/3, which is
where all the 4/3 action is now anyway. "old" 4/3 is dead.


Jury is still out on 4/3, but there is no reason not to kill it.


There's a very good reason not to kill it: Olympus has tens of
thousands (probably hundreds of thousands) of unsold 4/3 lenses that
it needs to get rid of. That's why there will be another E-System
DSLR.

But Sigma's withdrawal from the market isn't a surprise. The Sigma
4/3 lenses were lenses designed for APS-C cameras, minimally altered
by providing a 4/3 mount and interface.

Sigma never took 4/3 at all seriously.

That's OK. Most of us rarely take Sigma seriously. Except for the
occasional good lens, most of their stuff is crap.