Sigma has finally followed up the fp, the camera it introduced in 2019 as the smallest full-frame mirrorless body on the market. The FP2 arrives November 11 at $2,199 for the body alone, or $2,749 bundled with Sigma's new EVF-21 electronic viewfinder.
The silhouette hasn't moved much. The FP2 still looks like a brick with an L-Mount bolted to the front, measuring 112.8 x 69.9 x 41.8 millimeters and weighing 460 grams with a battery and SD card loaded in. Sigma has swapped the fp's leatherette covering for a diamond-knurled texture across the back and part of the front, and dropped the old Tone button, but the two-dial top deck is unchanged. There's still no rear command dial.
The one real ergonomic shift is the rear screen. Where the fp had a fixed 3.15-inch, 2.1-million-dot touchscreen, the FP2's panel now tilts. Sliding it out also uncovers vent fins meant to help the camera shed heat during long video recording.
A faster sensor, still no IBIS
Under the hood sits a new 24.5-megapixel partially stacked full-frame sensor, a step up from the older BSI-CMOS chip in the original fp. PetaPixel notes it looks similar on paper to the sensor in the Panasonic S5 II(X) and Nikon Z6 III, though Sigma hasn't confirmed whether it's identical. The faster readout should cut rolling shutter for both stills and video.
The FP2 remains an electronic-shutter-only camera, with speeds from 30 seconds to 1/25,600 and a bulb mode up to five minutes. Native ISO runs 100 to 102,400, expandable down to ISO 6 for stills. Burst shooting hits 20 frames per second in JPEG or RAW, with a DNG buffer of up to 180 frames. Sigma's hybrid autofocus system adds AI subject tracking for humans, dogs, cats and birds, plus eye detection.
In-body stabilization is still absent, presumably a casualty of keeping the body this small.
Video and a viewfinder that skips the hot shoe
Sigma is pitching the FP2 as equally built for photographers and video shooters. It records 6K open-gate footage at up to 60p, 4K at 60p across the full sensor width, and 4K at 120p with a crop, alongside log footage and ProRes RAW or ProRes RAW HQ at up to 4K48 and 6K29.97.
The camera has no hot shoe by default, a Sigma habit carried over from the fp. The optional EVF-21 viewfinder, with a 5.76-million-dot OLED panel and 0.88x magnification, instead clips into a USB port and can tilt up to 90 degrees. Buyers who want a hot shoe need the separate HU-21 Hot Shoe Unit, which also unlocks 32-bit float audio recording.
Storage is handled by 70GB of internal memory plus a UHS-II SD card slot. Sigma says the new battery runs about 30% longer than the fp's, rated for 370 stills or 130 minutes of video.
"We listened closely to the feedback from our creative community — vloggers, podcasters, photographers, and filmmakers alike, to deliver an uncompromised hybrid tool built to handle the future of multi-platform storytelling," said Mark Amir-Hamzeh, Sigma Corporation of America's president, in the announcement.
Sigma hasn't detailed India pricing or availability for the FP2. Preorders in the US are tied to the November 11 launch date, with the body-only and EVF kit configurations as the only two options announced so far.
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