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This puts some new life in the APS-C universe and at that price point it’s due to be popular
http://slrgear.com/reviews/showproduct.php?product=1609
Wow, I expected the price to be around the $1500 mark. I may actually get one if the real world tests are good.
Don’t say that in public. Sigma may start to wonder if they could charge much more for their lenses.
why on earth did you think it would have been so much? a Full frame lens like this yes but aps-c no.
^^ Err how many f1.8 zoom lenses do you know exist today for APS-C sensors ?
Anything unique generally can command a higher price tag.
Any hope of them ever porting this over to e-mount?
If so, I will jump on it the moment preorders are up. That will be my every lense!
Yep. I am pretty sure that lens would stay on my camera 90% of the time.
Doesn’t make any sense. It would have to be a completely different optical design, one that would be cheaper and less complicated by the way. Apart from that you can use any A-mount lens on an E-mount body by means of an adapter.
Yeah I know I can adapt it.
What would need to change about the optical design? I assume refocusing the light at a shorter distance since the flange is shorter on the NEX? I am guessing the auto-focus mechanism would need to change too?
I don’t know enough about the internals to argue with you or accept your statement 😉
So any elaboration would be awesome 🙂
+1
You are aware that this is an 800gram lens and is enormous. If they made it for native e-mount it would look ridiculous. Can’t imagine there being any market for it. Just buy it and get the LA-EA2.
and yet people (including myself) do indeed buy 18-200mm massive lenses for their NEX…
No, 18-200 is only half the weight of Sigma lens.
+1. The lens is already too big for the NEX body. The adapter won’t add much 😉
The SEL-18200 is not too big for NEX! I like it on my NEX-5N and the handling is like a Cybershot F828 or R1 and can be well balanced. And where is the law that a NEX must be a small camera? I don´t get it why people ever concerned about a too big lens design for NEX? As a NEX- and Pre A-Mount-User up to A850 with fast telezooms like the Sigma 70-200F28 I don´t get it. Such a tele lens is always bigger and heavier than even a VF camera and that´s really better? Same with the SAL-70300G. Even on APS-C like a A700/A77 it´s not really a comfortable always carry around combination for handheld shooting.
No actually makes sense. It would sell like hot cakes too. Another no to you, it would NOT be a “completely different optical design”.
It will be redesigned of course with different optics and build. 100% doable especially by talented men at sigma.
This is the beginning of the series. They did it right by starting from the most popular interchangeable lens system SLR APSC.
Next will be similar concept lens for NEX, X and maybe even others.
what do you guys think? the 16-50 is a very very good zoom lens as well with very nice bokeh. which one would be the best?
The one that you need more for your type of shooting. Better range, slower speed and weather proofing or faster lens with shorter range.
According to SLRgear, Sigma is sharper with better CA control at wider angles. The lens is big though so the whole setup on a77 body would be comparable to a99 with 28-75/2.8, with similar or worse image quality. What’s the point then?
A fraction of the price of the FF equivalent
This lens will fit perfectly with my a77!
This is unbelivable. I am not saying 799 bucks is cheap but, this is way lower than I expected. I thought it’s going to be around 1500!
I wonder how the Bokeh of this lens compares to the fantastic Sigma 35 1.4?
E-MOUNT! Why can’t Sigma see the $$$ trail? This would take over the entire NEX market.
+1
Yes, people buy compact NEX camera’s to mount huge expensive lenses on it.
Before making parochial comments like that, it’s worth switching on a few brain cells. The Sigma 18-35mm is a cross-platform APS-C DSLR lens, and the basic optics will be essentially identical for other mounts with comparable flange mount distances. The differences will be limited to the actual mount and firmware for each vendor. This means that Sigma can sell what is basically the same lens into the DSLR market comprising on just Sony of course, but the much larger one of Canon and Nikon (and Sigma’s own mount of course, albeit a much smaller market). This is where the big $$$s are of course.
Of course it would be possible to put the same optical lens design onto an e-series by what amounts to an integrated adapter. However, such a lens would be virtually the same size as an A-Mount lens with the A-E adapter, so there’s hardly any point. That’s assuming that the basic lens focus design will work well with CAF anyway – which can’t be guaranteed. Those who like using large A-mount lenses on an NEX are most likely to have such an adapter already. Those who choose the NEX for compactness will probably not want a huge lens like this with an unecessarily large sensor-flange registration distance.
What this means is that any mass-selling e-mount 18-35mm f1.8 lens would have to be specifically designed to provide a short sensor-flange registration distance. That is not a minor change – indeed it’s rather fundamental to move to a non-retrofocus Or minimal retrofucs) design, and it introduces all the well-known issues of incident angles at the sensor edges. An 18-35mm f1.8 would inevitably still be a large lens, even if the performance could be maintained with a short registration distance. It’s debatable if such a large lens on e-mount would be a true mass seller, although Sigma might consider such a lens targeted at the compact exchangeable lens market as a whole, not just NEX. However, it’s still debatable if an inevitably large lens would be a mass seller and it would be rather a considerable commercial gamble as well as being technically challenging.
Don’t try reasoning with them… E-Mount users are usually idiots 😉
Need some side by side comparison shots of the 1635CZ vs Sigma 18-35F/1.8. Focusing speed, color and sharpness comparison.
We need some side by side shots of
the 1680CZ vs Sigma 16-35 F/1.4.
Compare color, focusing speed, noise,
sharpness and build quality.
Send me a Sigma and I’ll do the test for you.
Has anybody or (admin) had any luck finding a Zeiss touit 12mm in stock for Europe delivery that isn’t on Ebay?
Did we ever get confirmation if the new Alpha mounts coming out will work with older screw AF lenses? If not, this kinda makes you think that Sigma thinks/knows they will… Even though they are supposed to be FF bodies, Im sure aps-c will go mirrorless as well…
It doesn’t have stabilized, so.. This beast can go further ibis, thx sony
Now bring us your 5 axis ibis soon, combined with flycam and hsm autofocus this lens would be a perfect combo for my video project
Thank you, Sigma!
I think B and H is wrong and is probably listing a lens that will never be released in A-mount. Evidence: 1) The Sigma website does not list the lens as being in Sony mount 2) B and H has listed other lenses (like the original 120-300 OS HSM) as being ready for pre-order in A-mount. The lens was never released in this mount.