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New Sigma lenses - 12-24/4 Art, 500/4 Sport, 85/1.4 Art
shadowblade:
12-24 f/4 Art
500 f/4 Sport
85 f/1.4 Art
Some very promising lenses here - the 12-24 and 500 look particularly interesting.
I just hope they come with with an E-mount version at some stage, and make it available via their mount conversion program. After all, they already have an adapter that allows full E-mount functionality - it can't be all that difficult to make a permanently-attached version that replaces the lens' existing mount.
GrahamBy:
At a theoretical level, it's disappointing that they aren't releasing in Pentax mount, and they didn't bring an update of their 24-70/2.8.
At the pragmatic level, I already have the pre-ART 85/1.4 (now discontinued). It's already sharper than I need... although it's true that the AF is a little slow. I'm not sure I see the value of adding a bunch of extra weight and cost to something that is already excellent.
Paul2660:
Hopefully one day Sigma will extend mount support back the K.
These lenses don't appeal to me as much as they wide Arts.
Thankfully Samyang still supports the K.
Paul C
Hulyss:
Sigma is not as complete (mount choice) as before and I think it is a mistake. They are completely hooked on the "Otus line" as a market bait at the moment and miss their original purpose : Lenses for every mount and for every body.
They seek sharpness before all and just started to speak about "bokeh" in their kina speach. Meanwhile I think the real third party lens maker is actually tamron, not Sigma anymore. Tamron at least offer Weather sealing on their glasses, stay low in price and perform very well without any pretentious PR. I, for now, never seen any bad factual review about Tamron prime performances. They are light, rugged and the 85 is stabilized ... What else ?
And yes, the old Sigma 85 DG is just a very good 85 with a lot of character, sharp but yet with subtle rendering. I bet the new one is sharp as a katana and lifeless (apart if you PP behind, thing not really needed with "old " lenses with character).
GrahamBy:
For a Pentax user, Tamron is complicated: they have a license deal to sell their lenses rebadged as Pentax... at a considerably higher price. Then they do not sell the K-mount badged as a Tamron :(
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