Sigma introduced the 24MP fp back in 2019 and in March this year it announced the fp L, another fullframe mirrorless camera using the same body but with a resolution of 61MP and the same sub £2,000/$2,500 price tag. That’s especially enticing when you remember that the 61MP Sony A7R IV retails for £3,500/$3,500.

Of course, Sigma has never been a company that produces copycat cameras and the fp L ploughs its own furrow with a rectangular modular design. Also, to keep the size and weight of the camera down, the fp L, like the fp, has neither a mechanical shutter, in-body stabilisation nor an integrated viewfinder.

What you do get however, is the option to add a high-resolution electronic viewfinder that can be tilted up through 90° for viewing from above and a back-illuminated CMOS sensor with phase detection pixels onboard to facilitate a hybrid focusing system. There’s also face and eye detection and a subject tracking mode.

While a 61MP sensor is likely to grab the attention of photographers, the fp L can also record full-width 4K video at up to 30p in 8-bit CinemaDNG internally or 12-bit CinemaDNG to an external SSD connected via the USB-C port or the USB-C port in the optional EVF-11 electronic viewfinder. Alternatively, it can record ProRes Raw to an Atomos Ninja V or Blackmagic RAW to a Blackmagic Video Assist 12G.

There’s also a digital Crop Zoom mode that enables a 2.5x crop without losing any of the 4K resolution.