Sigma has never been interested in making a normal camera. When the original fp landed in 2019, it skipped the mechanical shutter, the viewfinder, and the grip entirely, and stuffed a full-frame sensor into a pocketable slab. Filmmakers turned it into a cult favorite anyway. Seven years later, the follow-up is here, and Sigma is once again claiming the smallest full-frame crown with the FP2. I have not shot with it yet, but the idea of a full-frame camera that disappears into a jacket pocket has always appealed to me, and this one finally fixes the things that kept the original a niche tool.
The cult camera, rebuilt from scratch
Do not let the familiar silhouette fool you. Of the 434 parts that make up the FP2, Sigma says only a handful carry over from the original. The heart of it is a new 24.5MP partially stacked full-frame sensor, reportedly the same speedy chip found in the Nikon ZR and the Panasonic S1 II. That faster readout matters, because the FP2 still runs exclusively on an electronic shutter. Rolling shutter wobble is largely tamed, bursts hit 20 frames per second, and the overhauled autofocus now tracks birds alongside people and pets. The body weighs about 376 grams before you add the battery, or 460 grams with battery and card loaded.
Flip a switch, roll cinema
The headline act sits on the top plate, where a dedicated switch flips the FP2 between Still and Cine modes, each with its own interface. In Cine trim, this is a legitimate pocket cinema camera: 6K OpenGate recording at up to 60 frames per second, ProRes RAW at up to 6K/30p, and as many as 14.1 stops of dynamic range in L-Log. Sigma even built in a Director’s Viewfinder function that simulates the framing of an ARRI ALEXA 35 or a Sony VENICE 2, which tells you exactly who this camera is courting. It is not trying to be your only camera. It is trying to be the camera you bring when the big rig stays home.
Seven years of gripes, fixed (mostly)
Longtime fp fans will clock the quality of life wins immediately. The screen finally tilts, 90 degrees up and 45 down. Battery life jumps roughly 30 percent to about 370 shots, or 130 minutes of video. And 70GB of internal storage backs up the UHS-II SD slot for the moment a card fills mid-shoot. There are still honest trade-offs. There is no in-body stabilization, so handheld work leans on stabilized lenses or a gimbal. The optional EVF-21, a tilting 5.76-million-dot OLED viewfinder, plugs into one of the two USB-C ports. Connectivity is otherwise generous: two USB-C ports, full-size HDMI 2.1, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth, all in a body that measures 112.8 by 69.9 by 41.8 millimeters.
The price of pocketable
Pre-orders are open now ahead of a November 11 release. The body alone runs $2,199, and another $550 gets you a kit with either the 50mm F2 DG Contemporary lens or the EVF-21 viewfinder, at $2,749 apiece. That is serious money for a camera with no viewfinder, no grip, and no stabilization in the box. But that was always the fp deal: it trades comfort for capability and size, and for shooters who want full-frame cinema in a package smaller than a paperback, nothing else really plays this role. The FP2 does not apologize for what it is. Seven years on, it just does it better.
