Scenes Seen/Infrared Foveon: SIGMA sd Quattro + 30mm f/1.4 Art

Camera gear rabbit holes are a thing. They are everywhere. How I got here:

Bought a leatherette for a camera.
Emailed Hamish a “Hey. This is neat.” note about the leatherette.
Hamish replied that he knows the owner, and asked that I write a 35mmc review.
Me: Yep. Wrote a review. Checked recent 35mmc posts.
I see a post about Rollei Infrared 400.
I now want to try Rollei Infrared 400.
Visits local camera shop to pick up Infrared film.
- Chris tells me about Ilford SFX.
- Purchased Rollei Infrared 400, Ilford SFX, and necessary filters.
- More on how this turns out in future posts.
Brought along a digital infrared solution.

Onward. That digital infrared solution.

SIGMA SD Quattro.

They are always there for me with their special brand of goofiness. Pre “L Mount Alliance!” anyway. I do not recognize this shared mount, post Foveon, and no removable hot mirror SIGMA variant. I am talking proper, “What are their Engineers smoking?”, full of questionable but somehow still endearing oddball ergonomics and misshapen aesthetics SIGMA.

Admittedly the “fp” models do hold down the you did what now side of the SIGMA house well. I decided to go with the oddest possible Foveon use case made easy. Infrared. Already wrote a long-winded post about my first experiences and a follow-up.

Nothing fancy. Just random shots of scenes seen. But infrared makes almost everything look good to me. And the fact that this solution has made casual Infrared photography accessible is a bit amazing. All for the low $24 cost of an Infrared pass/Visible light cut filter. On to the photos.

I find the whites of the foliage, the darks of plastic and asphalt, and the glow of many other objects to be fascinating. The fact that SIGMA makes it easy to switch back and forth between the two is much appreciated. I already really like the camera, and this is yet another feather in the SIGMA sd Quattro’s cap.

Happy capturing.

-ELW