(SR3) Sigma rumors got info about a possible Sigma 24mm f/2.8 DN Art APS-C E-mount Lens that could be released in September. This would become the fourth APS-C E-mount lens in their lineup after the [shoplink 34452 ebay]19mm (here)[/shoplink], [shoplink 34453 ebay]30mm (here)[/shoplink] and [shoplink 34454 ebay]60mm (here)[/shoplink] E-mount lenses.
One more Sigma rumor:
(SR1) Sigma Rumors and I also got a weird info from another source about a 23mm FE Sigma lens (unlike the 24mm ART APSC E-mount lens rumored above). We both think this rumors is very likely fake. Anyway, here it is:
“I do have confirmation that FE support from Sigma is actually further along than the DPreview interview with the Sigma CEO would suggest. Sigma developed and will be releasing a FE 23mm f2.8 lens to market either September or October 2015. This focal length was strategically chosen to complement the new FE 28/2 Sony has released. It will have 10 elements in 8 groups, and 9 rounded diaphram blades.”
But I am 99% sure this one is fake.
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99% fake should be SR1, not SR3, right?
I think the 2nd part was the 99% fake (23mm FE), not the 24mm E-Mount
Exactly. I will udpate the post to make it more clear.
Any a7rii rumours this week? I hope to buy that camera
Coming on Monday-Tuesday. (Because that’s when I should get some SR4 info)
“I do have confirmation that FE support from Sigma is actually further along than the DPreview interview with the Sigma CEO would suggest.” So by Sigma’s glacier like development schedule we should see this lens by early 2019.
or worse (like the DP-1), announced early 2019 and produced 2022. :((
Sigma ! I want a 35mm F1.8 or F2 ! sharp and nice creamy bokeh wide open with a decent size and weight, please !
I would love to see a Sigma FE 23 or 24mm f2.8 lens!!! I hope this SR1 turns into a SR5!
I would like to see a new good lens on the e-mount since currently.. only the 60mm 2.8 sigma art can be considered good. While the 19 an 30mm ones have horrible Chromatic aberration and distortion problems.
I’d certainly consider the 30mm good, especially when considering its price.
What distortion problems are you referring to? There is very little distortion with this lens in my experience.
CA could be considered as not a great aspect of this lens, but it’s so easy to clear up.
I’d agree with this, the 30mm was a pretty good lens. I never had any distortion issues with it. CA was a bit of an issue but easy enough to correct. I have since replaced it with the E 35 but a compact 24mm Sigma would be a welcome addition if it preforms to the level of the 30mm.
I have all three of them and see no problems with CA on 19 and 30.
What are you smoking these days?
I would get this as soon as it was available. A 24mm prime is my perfect walk around city lens!
Figure on six years from now for pre-ordering to start.
ya, i expect to purchase this with my Sony alpha a9s mark VIII
are you not interested in the sony zeiss 24 1.8? its quite a nice lens. 5-700 these days.
I read it wrong; I thought it was for the FE series, not E. If it’s not FE, I would have no use for it, unfortunately 🙁 .
I would love to see a tiny/compact 24mm or 28mm f/2.8 or f/4 with edge-to-edge sharpness & minimal distortion & aberration.
I found an a7 EBAY GEM by the way. I already have an a7r so I dont need this but wow … i’m tempted.
here’s the link: http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=301557758584&alt=web
Ooooooh thx
same here and thanks for sharing. i’ll definitely want to get thiss
But they already have 19mm, 35mm and 60mm primes, unless it is really REALLY tiny, I would much prefer if they come up with a 90mm-105mm Macro.
I agree that it won’t be popular unless it’s small. I would only consider it if it’s a pancake lens almost as sharp as the other DN lenses. Otherwise I don’t see the point, especially since there is a relatively cheap and apparently well-performing Sony 28mm that’s also faster (f/2).
Yep, and Sony have an excellent real pancake 20mm/2.8 that’s only 1-2 centimetres long/tall although wider, but still the only real pancake for E mount.
I don’t know why they even bothered with 30mm. They should have made 19/24/60 (or 55, actually). 30mm for APS-C is pretty useless. Not wide enough for scenes (street photography, shooting kids etc.) and not tight enough for portraits, where 50mm shines…
30mm makes perfect sense as it’s a 50mm “normal lens” equivalent.
what silly crop factor makes 30mm into 50mm?
No crop factor can change the focal length of a lens, but a 30mm on an APS-C sensor is close enough to a 50mm on a 35mm sensor that the difference is mostly irrelevant.
I know it’s not related but I need some help from you guys who know Sony more.
I’m still waiting for the A7000 announcement, any news on that? CES15 has already happened and
there was no A7000 there. I was about to get the A6000 but after some
reaserch I saw these rumors and the on-camera stabilization, 4K video
and such would REALLY make want to wait this instead of getting the
A6000. Nothing new on the subject yet? Suggestions on what to do? I know there’s a new camera every year so I don’t mind having an older model but if “older” means “I bought it and the new one came out the next month” that’d be bad and I could just wait.
No one knows, all the A7000 rumors claimed it’s coming 2015Q1, so either the whole product is a big hoax or was delayed for reasons beyond our knowledge (with some positive thinking we can hope it was delayed because Sony wants a camera that can compete with the NX1).
2015Q1 is the fiscal year starting Apr. 1st.
meant the first quarter of fiscal year.
No, they never talk about fiscal years in the context of product announcements. Fiscal years are used in financial statements, and are usually written as ‘FY2015’. If they write ‘2015’, then they mean the calendar year.
Also, the fiscal year is named after the calendar year in which it ends, so FY2015 ends on March 31st, and FY2016 starts on April 1st.
well not sure about the rumors, but we are in FY14 for sure
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/info/irday2014electronics/IPandS_E.pdf
look at p.5
That’s odd, it seems that Sony isn’t following the usual convention for naming fiscal years then, because they are usually named after the year in which they end.
I agree with the others(nice nickname btw!).
The proof is that the rumors said it was “to be announced at 2015Q1 at CES15”.
CES15 happened in January, which is the “Q1” for product announcements, so the fiscal year doesn’t count for this it seems.
By 2015Q1 I meant 2015 jan 1 – 2015 march 31, dunno what these guys are smoking. I thought it’s obvious people use the normal calendar as long as not stated otherwise.
Oh ok eheh thanks for the reply 🙂
Thanks for the reply. Guess I’ll wait at least a month and then judge, there’s no hurry 🙂
Sony will have a conference on April 12 (NAB), maybe they will announce a pro aps-c camera. If no, I’m out of ideas.
Thanks for the info man, I’ll wait for that then 🙂
Dovresti chiedere direttamente all’Admin per quanto riguarda la A7000.
Intendi quello del sito? È in contatto con qualcuno in Sony?
I would love to see some primes like 24, 35, 85 with a f2.8 or f4 aperture. It’s such a shame that if one wants the best image quality (sharpness, contrast, low distortion etc), they are forced to carry heavy, big lenses. Not everyone needs f1.4 or 1.8, but still want that great image quality that comes with lenses like the Sigma arts.
please, someone, make excellent, outstanding image quality prime lenses that are small and light (f2.8 or slower).
Anyone else sick of all these wide-angle primes?
How many different versions/brands will there be for E-mount wide-angle primes?
I am getting a little suspicious as to why no one is making large aperture lenses at the longer focal lengths… Maybe it is extremely difficult to make such lenses due to the mount diameter being so small… !!
Too many lenses! Waahhhhaaaaaaaaaaa
If you want a long large aperture lens then just use an adapter.
If Sony made adapters to fit Canon or Nikon lenses…i would be all over them
but I refuse to buy 3rd party adapters to fit other lenses…
And i will not buy A-mount lenses as that mount is as dead as a dodo…
I agree. A mount cameras are dead. Song has walked away from developing a new ff a mount cameras for too long. But…. There is still quite a bit of the legacy glass that is beautiful.
Nikon? With their F-mount that has a smaller diameter than Sony’s E-mount? Surely not?
How do you explain large aperture lenses working without issue with the LA-EA adapters, then?
Magic?
The mount is too small for IBIS also.
Apparently so…
Too small? What, you mean like the Nikon F mount? smh
If the 24/2.8 will be as good as the 60/2.8 I would buy it. Nevertheless we need more zooms and primes with longer focal lengths, f2-f2.8 should be enough
I was hoping for some 24mm AF lens for almost two years (Zeiss was way over the budget). Finally, a few months ago, I bought Sigma 30/2.8 – nice lens, but not wide enough. And now this….
Well its still an SR3. Lets not get our hopes up too much till we get an SR4 or SR5 rumor.
hahah not surprisingly I love the SR1 rumor much more 🙂
I add this SR0 rumer: and it is for < $100 which I like more 🙂
I would believe more in 14 f/4 taken from their dp0. At least fixed cost will be low, and market much higher than for another, and slow, 24mm.
Or 50mm macro from dp3, Sony only has 30mm which is too short, and 90mm which is too big and expensive for APS-C.
???
FE, not E.
That’s not going to work, the “shallow” E-mount is still 18mm in front of the sensor, that 14 f/4 from the DP0 will be designed with the rear element a few mm in front of the sensor (as all the other DP lenses are).
You know that rear elements are allowed to go inside the mount and often do, do you? 🙂 There is no mirror there, and glass stack and shutter assembly take just a few mm.
Yes but the rear element in the DP1 lens is the largest element in the entire lens and is far too big to fit through the E-mount throat:
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/uk-electronics/product_content/sigma/Sigma_has_built_a_compact_19mm_wide_angle_lens_to_custom_fit_the_DP1_Merrill_large.jpg
The RX1 lens is the same. Fixed lens designs are radically different to interchangable lens designs.
23mm is more prime than 24 since the number is prime too
Oh look another wide angle lens for FE mount .
Always helps if you read the article before posting. smh
It would be smart for a 3rd party to release an UWA rectilinear prime (in the range of 14 to 17mm) with AF. That would fill a gap for those who do not want a 16-35 but use a 24-70 or the 28 / 35mm primes.
Excellent. Looking forward to Sigma joining the Emount party! A 24f2.8 prime is a great way to make lots of Emount friends quickly.
Uhm they make E-Mount lenses, have for years.
Opps ! Thanks MdB for the correction.
Either way, I am looking forward to a 24 f2.8 prime for my A7r. So this is good news to me.
The 24 2.8 is rumored for APS-C, not a great match for the a7r…
Another opps, now I see this is an APS-C lens. Pardon. Not what I had hoped for the FF A7r. I already have the APS-C Sony/Zeiss 24 f1.8 for my A6000.
Well, nice to hear that at least Sigma is still planning to release new APS-C E-mount lenses, since Sony apparently isn’t. It’s been what, almost two years since Sony released a new one?
I was hoping somebody would make a 85 or 135 mm 2.8 prime for APSC E Mount. But 24 is also ok I guess.
That’s why it’s not OK. We already do have a good choice with wide-angled primes, including the excellent SEL-24F18Z, the new SEL-28F20 and the decent SEL-20F28. Who needs more? But we have nothing for 85 and 135mm. If Sigma was serious they would have chosen a more profitable margin.
A wideangle is not ok, if telephoto is what you need.
An 85mm f1.8 is the main lens missing from my collection. Nikon’s 85mm f/1.8G AF-S is the lens I really want – excellent optics, and it costs a pretty reasonable $450 on Amazon. I’d go a little higher in price if it included OSS.
we need full frame lens please
low readership, so a new rumor just pop up? unless they have this for sigma camera, else, keep dreaming
Another 2.8? Why does Sigma always make 2.8 lenses? We need more fast primes with decent prices, not overpriced Zeiss or slow Sigma!
Sigma if you are reading this, please make the 35 f/1.4 50 f/1.4 and 85 f/1.4 24-105 f/4 in FE mount, and the 18-35 f1/8 in aps-c Thank you