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Sigma FP2 Arrives November 11 With a Partially Stacked 24.5MP Sensor, 6K Open Gate and ProRes RAW

Seven years after the original fp, Sigma has finally announced its successor. The Sigma FP2 goes on sale on Wednesday, November 11, 2026. Sigma still calls it the world’s smallest full-frame camera, and the pitch on the box is “Small, Powerful, Adaptable”. No price yet.

The first fp was a brilliant, frustrating thing. A tiny brick of a full-frame L-mount body that shot gorgeous CinemaDNG, looked great on a cage, and was hard to love as a stills camera. Slow contrast-detect AF, no viewfinder, no real grip, short battery life. Filmmakers adored it. Most photographers bought something else.

The FP2 reads like a list of every complaint people had, fixed one by one. Without losing the size.

What’s new on the stills side

The sensor is the headline. It’s a 24.5-megapixel partially stacked CMOS, and that changes a lot. Readout is much faster, so rolling shutter goes down, burst goes up and video at high frame rates gets cleaner. Sigma quotes about 20fps continuous for up to 200 frames in one burst. That’s a different class of camera from the old fp.

Autofocus is redone too. Sigma says it’s faster and more accurate, works better in low light, and subject detection now covers birds as well as people and animals. We’ll want to see it in real use, but on paper it’s the biggest upgrade for anyone who shoots stills.

Then the practical stuff:

  • A tilting LCD, up 90° and down 45°. The original’s fixed screen was a real limit
  • An optional EVF-21 viewfinder that clips on through the USB-C port. It’s a 0.5-inch OLED with about 5.76 million dots, it tilts up to 90°, and it has an eye sensor
  • About 30% more battery life than the fp, rated around 370 shots or 130 minutes of video on the new BP-91 pack
  • 70GB of fast internal storage on top of the SD slot, so a full card doesn’t end a take
  • A dedicated Color button for 13 color modes built on Sigma’s own color science

The Color button matters more than it sounds. Sigma’s color modes, Teal and Orange, Powder Blue, Warm Gold and the rest, were one of the best things about the fp and the newer BF. Now they’re one press away.

Still a real cinema camera

The STILL/CINE switch on top stays, and each mode gets its own interface and workflow. Flip it and the FP2 becomes a small full-frame cinema camera.

It records 6K Open Gate, so you capture the whole sensor and crop later for 16:9, vertical, 4:5 or anamorphic. That’s the multi-platform workflow most creators are actually living in now. Dynamic range is rated up to 14.1 stops in 4K full-frame L-Log, with 7 stops of highlight headroom from ISO 1250 up.

ProRes RAW is supported, and so is Leica’s L-Log, which drops straight into most grading software. That’s a big step from the CinemaDNG-only life of the first fp, where a short clip could fill a card and choke a laptop.

Audio gets 32-bit float recording when you add the HU-21 hot shoe unit with Panasonic’s DMW-XLR2 or DMW-DMS1. No more ruined takes from a shout or a whisper. The Director’s Viewfinder is back as well, and now it simulates the frame lines of the ARRI ALEXA 35 and Sony VENICE 2 and BURANO, plus desqueeze for anamorphic lenses. That’s a tool DPs and directors use on real sets.

Accessories and the rig question

All the screw holes on the body are standard 1/4-inch, the two strap-lug positions and the tripod socket. So almost any cage, handle or third-party accessory bolts on. Sigma is adding its own dedicated set:

  • EVF-21 electronic viewfinder
  • HU-21 hot shoe unit, sharing the flash protocol used by OM System and Lumix
  • BPL-21 base plate with a 3/8-inch thread for video accessories
  • LVF-21 LCD viewfinder, a 2.5x loupe with diopter adjustment from −2 to +1
  • BC-91 battery charger, about 175 minutes over USB PD
  • CN-91 DC connector for external power

Who it’s for

The fp found its people among indie filmmakers, documentary shooters and anyone building a tiny cinema rig for a gimbal or drone. The FP2 keeps all of that and makes it better. Faster readout, ProRes RAW and 6K Open Gate put it up against cameras like the Sony FX3A for small productions, at a fraction of the size.

The bigger change is on the stills side. With real AF, 20fps, a tilting screen and an optional EVF, the FP2 is finally a camera you could take for a walk with one small prime and enjoy. Something like Sigma’s new 50mm F1.4 CL, announced the same day and clearly built for exactly this kind of body. That puts it in the same conversation as the Lumix S9 and the Sony A7C II, with a lot more cinema DNA.

Price will decide a lot. The original fp launched at $1,899. If the FP2 lands anywhere near that, it’s going to be hard to ignore.