I remind current A-mount owners that the excellent and almost “Must-have” Sigma 18-35mm A-mount lens is in Stock after more than a year of waiting: via Amazon (Click here), Adorama (Click here) and BHphoto (Click here).
A7-A7r-A7s trade in:
up to -$375.00 trade in saving offer on A7-A7r-A7s running at BHphoto (Click here to read the details).
Current Sony US deals:
Save $380 on the Sony VGC99AM Vertical Grip with Sony A99 Digital SLR Purchase at Amazon US (Click here).
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It appears to cover FF from ~28mm to 35mm (without the hood). Not a bad deal at all.
I wonder what will it be if you remove the baffle and attaches w/ LA-EA4 on A7. Many UWA zoom doesn’t get the vegnette once the baffle is removed.
That is baffling. There is no baffle. Check out the Canon EOS version. The rear element is at the mount.
APS-C
Yes ! You can correct. Please don’t expect a f1.8 zoom lens for FF to cost $799.
Powerselling?
Need dis in E-mount. Will buy two.
Why not 5?
Actually there are EIGHT !!! (if you include Metabones and other Canon electronic adapters.) 🙂
Unfortunately Sony felt only 4 adapters would suffice. 🙁
Hopefully more adapters will be launched in future. I need some better color options too. Black is so passe !
There are 4 adapters available to use this on E mount. 2 can be used with an APS-C NEX with fast AF and 1 can be used with an FE NEX camera with fast AF.
How will this work on the A7R?
Like this:
See http://www.getdpi.com/forum/sony/51113-sigma-18-35-1-8-zoom-aps.html for examples on an A7R and the A77II. On the A7R this zoom covers the FF image circle from 28-35
Dear Sony,
I just bought the A7S from that trade-in deal and when I opened the box I got 2 batteries. We’ve been asking for bigger battery capacity, not more batteries. Err Sony, thanks but no thanks!
The point of asking for more battery life capacity is so that we can have less batteries to carry around and we won’t have to replace it when it dies down in the middle of the shoot. Do you get it now? more battery life in a single charge, not more batteries.
Why don’t you make another variant of battery where it holds a lot of power but it doesn’t retain it for much long like lithium? Sanyo eneloop battery did it so why can’t you? I’d rather have more power capacity than retain a longer battery charge because who goes out without charging a battery?
Here’s the response from Sony customer service.
pretty much that’s how they treat their customers.
customers do complain if they’re not satisfied with their purchases. We have been complaining about the battery life since they introduced the EVF on a55.
Sony has tried to do a quick fix by giving us 2 batteries thinking it will shut out mouths. But if Sony really care about professional users then they will give us better battery life. The Nikon D810 can shoot for more than a thousand shot on a single charge and it can record videos longer too.
There are solutions to this problem. First option is to lower the pixel on EVF so it wont consume so much power. Second, borrow technology from Sanyo or use their battery. Third, make a special vertical grip that can house a special type of battery that can last for hours of shooting and take thousands of shots.
You couldn’t find a picture of a middle finger salute? ;^)
So you ordered an A7 but got 2 batteries instead? Or did you try to order something like “bigger battery capacity” which doesn’t exist in the Sony catalog? Are you troubled? If you need more capacity you could have ordered the extended handgrip for the A7, which holds additional batteries inside. If you order this product Sony will deliver this product.
You need the battery grip. No two ways about it. Bigger battery needs more space. Sony can’t do it without redesigning the entire camera and making it more bulky.
No mirrorless camera provides a large battery life primarily due to its always on viewfinder vis a vis a DSLR with an optical viewfinder that consumes negligible battery when on.
Also DSLRs being much larger can accept bigger batteries with greater capacity.
battery life increases dramatically if you disable wifi and NFC. Do this. Get the battery grip additionally. Now stop complaining 😀
I thought long and hard about buying this to replace my 16-50 and 35/1.4, but decided that it was impractical to in the end… If it was a bit smaller, it’d be ideal for street photography on an apsc body (also the weight made me wonder how well it’d handle at the end of a long day). I ended up replacing the 16-50 with a 24/2 and haven’t regretted it (it’s a nice addition to my 35/1.4 and delivers consistently pleading images).
No matter how good prime lenses are they are simply too restrictive for a lot of people.
For a lot of people most zoom lenses are sharp enough for most people but they are generally too slow. f2.8 is the fastest a zoom got before Sigma launched this lens.
This lens offers something no other APS-C zoom has – a chance to compete in IQ with primes along with the convenience of a zoom. Only size is a real issue cause its price is lower than most competing prime lenses like your 24mm f2.
This is really great!