Sigma Japan announced that they are going to ship the 19mm and 30mm f/2.8 lenses this month.
Here are some preorder links:
Black Sigma 19mm f/2.8 lens at Bhphoto (Click here).
Silver Sigma 19mm f/2.8 lens at Bhphoto (Click here).
Black Sigma 30mm f/2.8 lens at Bhphoto (Click here).
Silver Sigma 30mm f/2.8 lens at Bhphoto (Click here).
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Why couldn’t they make a few fast lenses e.g. f1.4 or even an f1.2 – give us choice please not more of the same!
If they provide an f/1.4 lens, the price will go up dramatically past US$199.
I’d just like to see them provide something with great image quality without a colour cast, and also calibrated properly before it leaves their factory.
True re price hike, but it would be nice to have a native MFT lens other than the 25mm f1.4. With Panasonic and Olympus more or less copying focal lengths, I would hope for more choice.
It’s easy said. Those lenses are optically outstanding since they have no FW correction, They are telecentric and sharp wide opened. They cost v. little because they are shared across systems.
Do you need anything else except KMA? 🙂
What about the 60mm lens?
Also, admin, did you hear anything about the new 75-300 lens? The last info we had here that it will ship in Japan from 01-03-13 (so should be a week already in shops there)…
Thanx…
It´s available in Sweden.
Wow… any review, comment or experience yet?
Sigma please, these aps-c format lenses converted to mft are useless! We already have panny 20mm and oly 45mm.
19mm is not wide enough, and 30mm is too narrow for general use.
What we need is inexpensive ultra wide lens, for example 8mm f/4 would be plenty.
Competition is good, but why not make a lens to segment which is not yet filled?
“useless” really? Be serious!
sorry, but 30mm is perfect for my use. Don’t generalize please!
Actually, the 30mm is the lens sitting on my epl3 most of the time
19mm is so very close in perspective to a 17mm like the Olympus, or a 17.5mm like the Voigtlander. Just lean back a little and your composition will be substantially the same. What Sigma offers instead for m43 users is an admittedly slower lens but with welcome affordability. Opt for the older version and you’re looking at an optically sufficient $99 lens that’s suitable for many. The fact that it even exists is a bonus for any camera system, m43 included. No one is forcing a purchase upon those with contempt for it. Please lighten up.
Try the Samyang 7.5mm fisheye. It’s small, cheap and very good and sharp also at f3.5. You don’t really need AF at 7.5mm…
It’s really worth the 280€ it costs.
I have Samyang 7.5mm. Yes it is very good, BUT it is a fisheye lens. You can not really compare fisheye and ultrawide.
I have been looking UW lens, and basically there is only Olys 9-18mm and Panny 7-14mm. Oly is not wide enough, panny is way too expensive.
You should be glad that they’re made for APS-C and not made specifically for micro Four-Thirds. Sigma lenses are generally soft around the edges and using these should minimize that.
Disso, I agree completely. I would prefer a 35mm equivalent 18mm-20mm ultrawide, but a reasonably priced 8mm would do. There is too much me-tooism in affordable lenses. The ones that are not so me too tend to be priced in the stratosphere.
When I see Fuji’s 14mm for their XE1.. hummm yummy.
Give us a 10.5mm for MFT. I need W I D E.
The Fuji 14mm is a drool lens….
I think the best in that arena for MFT is the Panasonic 7-14mm f/4. It’s not a prime…but the lens is no slouch for a zoom.
Agree about the Fuji 14mm: it’s an amazing lens.
If Fuji could solve their AF issues…and some other bugs…I would consider selling off my extensive MFT kit and buying into the Fuji..they are almost there…but not quite.
Me too. I tried several times a friend’s EX1, coupled with 35mm f1.4, but it takes almost double the time to focus in dim light, compared to Zuiko45mm f1.8. I like the camera, shooting at high ASA is a step over MFT cameras, but its AF.. It seems they have improved it a lot, on new x100s though.
Well…the OMD is just so fast and damn fun to use!…I have 10 MFT AF lenses…so maybe Oly or Pany can come up with a sensor the rivals the Fuji..then I can stay micro and have it all! 🙂
What about the Tamron 14-150? Does anybody knows when it will be available?
I bought the old version of 19mm and sold it within a month. It wasn’t a bad lens. I just didn’t like the plastic feel and the CA was quite high. If there is improvement on the new version, I would consider it again. f2.8 is good enough for me as a general purpose wide angle lens.
So it’s a “pro” line lens but it lacks a proper MF ring. On systems that are quite notorious for relatively poor AF performance. I don’t get it. Besides the metal construction, it rather seems like a downgrade to me, given that they will optically be the same.
Poor AF preformance?
Do you ever used mFT at all?
There is only one thing that is poor about the AF, its the C-AF-but are you really faster then that when using manuel?
I know the AF performance on mft is quite impressive but I doubt that many mft people will be buying these anyways. The native mft lenses with similar focal length are much better suited for mft cameras (like the pana 20 1.7). I think these lenses are mainly aimed at NEX users. They just conveniently sell them to mft users because the lens happens to cover the FT sensor.
I use the old version of the 30mm on a NEX and I’ve got to say that I’m often better off with DMF or even MF than AF.
Has anyone found a comparison of the IQ differences (if any) between the previous and current versions of the lenses?
Still awkward focal lengths for m43, still slow, still no distortion correction, and still lenses designed for APS-C and retrofitted with an m43 mount.
I might get excited about Sigma lenses for m43 when they actually design some for m43 from the ground up.
Some idea about the price of the 60mm?
If these lenses are close to DP2M lens, then it worth the asking price. Readers should check out this link:
http://forum.xitek.com/thread-1090455-1-1-1.html
There are some Pro level users there to display what these lenses can do
Nice
More than 50% light falloff at the sides…. I guess you get what you pay for.
It’s not that these lenses are inherently bad in and of themselves. It’s that many users wished something more interesting preceded it. You do have to question why these lenses dropped it price so quickly and an update coming out right after it. You can’t help but think someone at Sigma said “Hmm, maybe we didn’t get it quite right.” So, hey, maybe this next version is, at best, mildly better (my bet). I have a good friend of mine saying he has both the 19 and 30 and expresses a certain sense of redundancy. I can somewhat understand the release of these primes to compliment the size of m43, but it woulda been great if they released their 17-50mm f/2.8 in m43 before updating these 3 primes.
See my comment below.
I’m not exactly sure why you’re responding specifically to my post. I blatantly said there’s nothing wrong with the lenses themselves, they’re of decent quality and match it’s affordability. There never was an argument there. It just would have been nice if a faster lens or a zoom came next, instead of so quickly updating/repackaging these ones. Is Sigma making the best/lucrative decision for it’s company? Probably. Am I suppose to care about them over my needs? No, not really.
By the way, you should finish your sentence: There is a place for all of these lenses…in *your* bag.
What is going on here is that these lenses (as fixed lenses) are on the Sigma DP1m, DP2m, and DP3m. So, Sigma has leveraged them into the NEX and MFT series of cameras as interchangeable lenses. I have both the older 19mm and 30mm Sigma lenses and really like them (I also have the Pany 20mm and 25mm, and the Oly 45mm). There is a place for all of these lenses. The Sigma lenses are also very sharp and a heck of a bargain. Recommended.
Exactly so. I can recommend the 30/2.8. Other people talk but wo experience. The 30/2.8 solved my ‘normal’ need without spending some 600 bucks for the Panaleica. There’s probably not much difference, and I saved 500 🙂
Still no info on the 60mm? I’m going nuts!
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