Last week, Sigma surprised all of us with a very unusual announcement: Sigma Mount Conversion Service. It’s all about offering the owners of the most recent Sigma lenses (the Art, Sport and Contemporary series; currently seven lenses in all) the possibility to swap mounts. You bought a 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM with a Canon mount…
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Sigma (upcoming) 120-300mm f/2.8 DG OS HSM
It’s hard to be sure of the details on this new lens from Sigma, since they announced that there is a delay (it will not be available this month – in March 2013). The only useful thing I would like to point to the significant items in the spec list: Dust-proof and splash-proof construction High…
Sigma SD1: Back to mental stability
After trying to sell their SD1 Digital SLR camera at the unreasonable price of $9,700 or 7,000€ or £6,199.99 (inc VAT), Sigma finally decided that customers are not completely wackos about the camera and just announced a much more normal price of $3300 (with a minimum advertised street price of $2200/2500€). It may seem still…
Marquetry Sigma SD1: The swan song?
When your product does not meet its market, if you are marketing manager, you need ideas. That is the reason why, at Sigma, people are looking for original ideas. And the marketing department just thought about marquetry. Or about wood to elegantly (?) wrap the most expensive photo camera of the Sigma range. If we…
Sigma SD1 gets a review
You may have been surprised by the startospheric prices of the Sigma SD1, but at least there is one serious study testing it on the Internet : DPReview Sigma SD1 preview.
SD1: Sigma wants to fail
There is no other possible explanation to today’s announcement by Sigma Corp. The published two critical bits of information about the Sigma SD1: Its availability date: early June Its MSRP price: $9,700 or 7,000€ or £6,199.99 (inc VAT) Even thinking that the SD1 is competing with medium format photo cameras, the 46 MP DSLR will…
30mm Sigma for Sony NEX
Confirming their participation in the race for more E-mount lenses for the Sony NEX family of cameras, Sigma presented a prototype of the upcoming 30mm f/2.8 E.
Sigma: price for the f/2.8 lenses
Sigma revealed the official prices for the high-end lenses presented yesterday: 120-300mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM: $4700 Macro 150mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM: $1600
New tele-zoom at Sigma
The Sigma APO 120-300mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM will allow Sigma to offer second generation image stabilization (with the ability to reach 4 EV improvements) on a wide aperture tele-zoom lens (f/2.8). Now, this is usually the realm of the very best lenses (the f/2.8 aperture at 300mm is normally associated in our mind…
Three new Sigma lenses
Sigma announces the launch of three new lenses in its EX series (high-end and pro lenses). Sigma 12-24mm f/4-5.6 EX DG HSM II is a new improved version of its widest zoom lens Sigma Macro 105mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM is both stabilized and Macro 1:1 Sigma 50-150mm f/2.8 EX DC APO OS HSM…
Sony opens the NEX lens specification
Sony has announced officially and publicly that they are going to completely share the specifications for NEX series lenses. It will become possible for third-party lens manufacturers to create optical products for the Sony NEX hybrid mirror-less photo cameras. Here is very good news for the Sony customers. But it’s even better when we read…
Sigma SD1: Foveon sensor
Sigma surprised nearly everybody when they announced the Sigma SD1 camera, a few hours in the Photokina show. This is a high-end DSLR photo camera for the enthusiast or the (nearly) pro photog. One of the most prominent features of the Sigma cameras is the famous Foveon X3 digital sensor where the color pixels are…
Sigma SD1
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Sigma SD1, first pictures
A few images of the future Sigma SD1. Important features: The Sigma SD1 will use the new (future?) 48 MP Foveon sensor It will include an anti-dust filter closing completely the mirror cage 3″ LCD screen with 420.000 pixels 11-point AF system Optical viewfinder with 98% coverage Most of the body structure comes from a…
Photokina, it’s started! (continuous update)
Of course, when the doors of the Photokina opened in Köln, Germany this morning, we found the recently announced new products, including: Canon EOS 60D Nikon D3100 Nikon D7000 Olympus E-5 Pentax K-5 Pentax K-r Sony SLT-A33 Sony SLT-A55 Sony Alpha 560 Sony Alpha 580 But, let’s also see what the camera and accessories manufacturers…
Sigma lenses: not for the Sony Alpha SLT
Sigma issued a press release to inform users that their Minolta-Sony-compatible lenses may have issues in handling the aperture when used on the newest Sony Alpha SLT (Semi-Transparent Mirror) Alpha 33 and Alpha 55. Be warned.
Photography, so many failures!
photo credit: davidgsteadman When buying a photo camera, we often research in order to decide if this is the best camera, if its features will be goo enough, but will it be robust enough? Will it be useful or necessary to purchase a warranty contract extension? Will it fail very soon? When somebody asks me…
Sigma Photo Pro up to SD15
Sigma just delivered the updated version of its photo edition software Photo Pro. The major changes are: Compatibility with 64-bit Windows (important for all photographers who moved to 64-bit Seven because of the lifted memory constraints); Compatibility with the new Sigma SD15 D-SLR camera It is immediately available for download: Click here to download the…
Sigma SD15: Too late, too expensive?
Sigma announced that the Digital SLR first presented in 2008, Sigma SD15, will become available on 25 June 2010. Up to this point, it just looked like Sigma was fighting to close the time gap. But there are plenty of comments on the web about the prices that have been associated to this announcement: Europe:…
Sigma SD15 coming… slowly
We heard already about the successor to the Sigma SD14, under the name of Sigma SD15, in 2008. Then, nothing or near to nothing. But here comes Sigma again with a new announcement about this camera. We will have to see if this will bring Sigma back in the light (the company was already considered…