Nearly identical to the earlier DP Merrill models, this camera features the familiar 15x3MP APS-C Foveon X3 sensor, but it is now mated with a 50mm (75mm equiv.) F2.8 lens. The lens lends itself to portraiture and, with a minimum focus distance of 22.6cm, offers respectable 1:3 magnification. Video recording is still limited to VGA resolution but the DP3M can shoot at up to 4 frames per second for 7 frames in Raw. The 23.515.7mm full-color Foveon X3 direct image sensor (Generation name Merrill), featured in the SIGMA DP3 Merrill, incorporates 46 effective megapixels (4,8003,2003 layers) and 44 recording megapixels (4,7043,1363 layers).

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