I just want to start this off is this is an opinion piece. NOT a review of the camera itsself. I want to make that clear before I go any further with this.
Now with that said.
Sigma is a company that has been around for a long time. They make 3rd party lenses for the major camera brands and have a few cameras out themselves. But they are mainly a third party lens company that has worked with brands such as Canon, Nikon, Sony. They may or may not have lenses for Panasonic.
Recently they have released a camera that has everybody talking. The mirrorless Sigma BF. They say it made the camera for simplicity.
It is a full frame, 25mp camera with 250 gb memory (internal) with a price tag of $2,000
Right off the bat :
Full frame: Great!
25 mp: For most people this is enough unless your doing empire State building size prints (or if you are a heavy cropper)
250 gb internal memory, however, is where it starts to falter right off the bat. I am NOT a fan of internal memory (on anything). Just like i am not overly a huge fan of cloud media (storage, movies, music, important documents) While they have their purpose i will always want a physical version of some sort. Internal Memory while different i view in the same light. Being that it doesn't have SD/CF cards or anything like that my biggest concern (and should be with anyone) what happens if the camera breaks. Well, you have internal memory. Most devices with internal memory would at least need the camera to turn on. Well if the camera suddenly goes kaput, you are SOL. At least with a sd/cf card slot the photos and videos would go to the card and you could pull the card out. YES, there is an opportunity for the card to be corrupted. BUT if its a good quality card 8/10 times you won't have to worry about it as much. I don't know what the reasoning was to not include a slot. I assume it was to keep things compact, it was not, however to keep costs down.
As you can tell from the photo ( both photos taken from Sigma.com) It does have a nice slim look to it and like Sigma said themselves they went for the simplistic approach to this. But again, for someone like me, it doesn't look like it would be something comfortable to hold for hours at a time . No reader display either. It does have picture review on it