Guess what the big Sigma teaser was for? A Mount Conversion Service 🙁
In short Sigma announced an (expensive!) service to converts a very limited range of Sigma lenses in other mounts. SigmaPhoto writes:
Global Vision lens owners can request the Mount Conversion Service to convert their current Sport, Contemporary or Art DSLR lenses to their choice of a Sigma, Sony, Pentax, Nikon or Canon mount. Global Vision category lenses for mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras (MILCs) can be updated to either a micro four thirds (MFT) or Sony E- mount.
This wasn’t worth a teaser 🙁
P.S.: I would really like to see a Foveon sensor inside an MFT camera. Me thinks this is the way to go! 🙂
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“P.S.: I would really like to see a Foveon sensor inside an MFT camera. Me thinks this is the way to go! ”
Is that your way of hinting what the next OM-D will bring????? #sarcasm
If you want a Foveon, get a one of the DP Merrills. They are affordable now (DP2M: $799), and have four year warranties (US). I had an original DP2, and bought a DP2M last month…thinking of DP3. They’re not large so one is always in the bag with my m4/3 stuff.
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Admin — This is actually pretty cool for SLR shooters who are thinking of switching between Nikon/Canon/Sony, etc. Just because it isn’t centered around Micro-Four-Thirds (which would have been foolish to assume), doesn’t mean it’s worthless.
Unfortunately it does not make a lot of sense for FT/µFT; the costs for the only possible convertion NEX-> µFT are may be higher than the lens value itself, an for FT there is no such service.
It’s a clever move by Sigma because now people comparing lenses can consider a Sigma purchase to be a little more future-proof than a native lens.
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while this is indeed interesting news for the Canon/Nikon switcher – gotta be cheaper to get your lenses switched than sell em and re-buy em … but being that this is a 43 rumors site the news isn’t relevant to us at all. Unless Sigma is including 43 and m43 mount into the service?! Then the Canon>m43 and Nikon>m43 switcher could bring their monster telephotos to their EPM2 🙂
I don’t think that a lot of user will use this service. The price differents to the option of sell and re-buy it isn’t there or really small.
It could only be useful when you have build up a special relationship to your lens 😉
This is the new revolution in lenses…..?
It’s seems a very very small thing. Expeccially if the cost is so expensive.
Do nothing for me.
It seems to be cheaper to sell the lens and re-buy it with a different mount instead of using this service….
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I agree with everyone…This announcement deserved no teaser, especially at the suggested cost range. (I never thought that the announcement had anything to do with MFT to begin with).
Admin’s MFT Foveon fantasy, (and mine!), will remain just that unless there is a miracle breakthrough in the limitations of the Fovean tech.
It is a wonderful fantasy though!
I guess Sigma thought it would be big news in Poland
This announcement seems to be for others than m43 shooters. I think it’s quite interesting and well worth the teaser. Let’s say I buy the new 120-300/2,8 for 3000 Euros for my Canon, than it’s good to know that I can take over the lens to Nikon in case that I want to change the system. With buying Canon (or Nikon etc.) lenses I won’t have this possibility. Smart move Sigma. This may well influence buying decisions (even if this service is not used very often). Of course it’s not an interesting option for people who don’t spend more than 300 Euros for a lens.
Foveon sensor: Forget it. If you don’t want rely on the marketing blurb and the internet hype which is not based on science, have a look here:
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/6202918
This was announced earlier and, as pointed out, the pricing makes it almost a non-starter for most people. On the other hand, included in the announcement (from Sigma US) was that Sigma products would have four year warranties beginning in July. Nice, since I have purchased a flash, a camera, and a lens since then.
Soon they gonna put up teasers for quarterly reports… to hype up the stocks.
Still, I believe m43 compatibility could be done pretty cheaply if Sigma gave it a shot. All it would take would be providing an adapter with electronic contacts and then writing a firmware for m43. Of course most of the lenses aren’t optimised for current CDAF algorithms, but that’s another issue. Many m43 shooters use adapters anyway, making an adapter that fully supports the lenses could make some sense.