The Sigma SD14 is unique. It is currently the only camera that uses a
14-megapixel Foveon X3 Direct Image CMOS sensor, which operates on a
different principle to the Bayer-mask mosaic sensors used by every other
digital camera on the market. It isn’t the first one to do so, since the
two previous Sigma digital SLRs, the SD9 and SD10, used earlier smaller
versions of the X3 sensor, but since those cameras are no longer in
production the SD14 is the only model available that uses this
innovative technology.