While attending the CP+ 2023 show in Yokohama earlier this year, I visited with Kazuto Yamaki, CEO of Sigma Corporation, and one of the most savvy executives in the entire photo industry.
Sigma has been celebrating its 10th year in the Chinese market this July and is capping the festivities with a 35mm f/1.4 DG DN Classic that has the same optical construction as the original lens but without coated elements, which emphasizes flare and lightens contrast.
Jordan Drake -- my YouTube partner -- hands me the Sigma 14mm f/1.4 DG DN Art lens, and the first thing that strikes me is just how bulky it is. The second thing that strikes me is that we need to go shoot some astrophotography with it.
Sigma has announced the "world's widest" f/1.4 prime lens: the 14mm f/1.4 DG DN Art. The company says this new optic was born from our engineers' passion for capturing the widest, brightest, highest-resolution, and most captivating starry sky images possible.
There just aren't a lot of ultra-wide full-frame prime lenses to choose from. There are plenty of zoom lenses to choose from, however, compact dedicated ultra-wides are in short supply. Cue Sigma to save the day with its brand new Contemporary series 17mm lens. But is this the hero we were looking for?
Sigma has announced three new compact prime lenses and the upcoming availability of three existing lenses for the Nikon Z-Mount.
When Sony and Sigma released lenses with nearly identical specifications (or at least nearly identical target customers), photographic gear scheduling marked a rare alignment. Photographically speaking, the concurrent launch of these two similar lenses is the equivalent of a full solar eclipse—incredibly rare and also amazing to see.
Sigma has launched a new three-part photography mini-series on YouTube that is similar to the format of Gone Fishing, but features Joe Cornish and Colin Prior, what the company says are considered two of the great British landscape photographers of all time.
Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki says that the company doesn't plan to develop any new Micro Four Thirds (M43) lenses due to demand that is "decreasing very sharply."
Sigma is launching support for Nikon Z-mount cameras with three prime lenses that are already available in five other mounts.
Sigma’s 50mm f/1.4 DG DN Art takes its place as the latest lens in Sigma’s venerable high-end lens line and is a welcome addition thanks to excellent performance and a low cost of entry.
Sigma says it aimed to redefine what a standard lens means for its support of mirrorless full-frame lenses when it created the 50mm f/1.4 DG DN Art, which balances size, weight, and autofocus with pro-level optical performance.
Sigma is making its fp and fp L cameras more appealing for filmmakers thanks to the addition of a new color mode, the ability to use 4TB external SSDs, Open Gate with Anamorphic desqueeze, Atomos Cloud support, and more
The Sigma 60-600mm for Sony E-Mount is a versatile, compelling, and unique lens with a mindblowing 10x optical zoom range. As with any all-in-one lens, it’s not without its compromises, and the $2000 price puts it up against Sony’s native FE 200–600mm f/5.6–6.3 G OSS, even though the Sigma has a more versatile zoom range.
Sigma's new 60-600mm f/4.5-5.6 DG DN OS Sports lens is the world's first 10x ultra-telephoto zoom lens for mirrorless cameras and features six stops of optical stabilization at the telephoto end and seven stops at the standard end.
Sigma has announced the 18-50mm F2.8 DC DN Contemporary for Fujifilm X Mount mirrorless cameras, promising it to be high-performance, high-quality, and compact.
The death of the DSLR has long been vaunted, and even after the appearance of the RF and Z mirrorless systems, it still sees signs of life. But dedicated lens manufacturers might finally have killed it off.
It appears that Sigma has discontinued 18 of its older DSLR lenses, joining Tamron, Nikon, and Canon in shifting focus to mirrorless cameras.
Sigma has announced that it is developing a pair of cinema prime lenses: a 65mm T1.5 FF Cine Prime and 65mm T2.5 FF Classic Prime. The addition of these two lenses brings its line of full-frame compatible prime cinema lenses to 11.
Sigma's two newly introduced wide-angle lenses are going to impress a lot of people with their large apertures and reasonable prices.
Sigma has announced two new primes that bolster its lineup of wide-angle options for full-frame Sony E-mount and Leica L-Mount cameras: the 24mm f/1.4 DG DN Art and the 20mm f/1.4 DG DN Art.
Sigma's CEO Kazuto Yamaki has revealed that the company's efforts in making a full-frame Foveon sensor are on track to be finished by the end of the year.
Sigma has shared a digital cross-section of its upcoming upcoming 16-28mm f/2.8 lens that showcases the intricate internal focusing system in action.
This Sigma 16-28mm DG DN Contemporary is the latest addition to the pile of really darn good lenses that don’t cost thousands of dollars.
Sigma has announced the 16-28mm f/2.8 DG DN, a wide-angle zoom lens designed for Sony E-Mount and Leica L-Mount and can be used on full-frame cameras.
A camera crew recently was given access to Sigma’s new headquarters in Kanagawa, Japan which reveals a complex filled with zen-like spaces and a "cellar" of lenses displayed like bottles of fine wine.
Sigma has announced that it is currently on stage two of three in prototyping its new full-frame Foveon sensor. The company says that if Stage 3 goes well, it can start to verify its mass producibility.
Sigma has announced that three of its APS-C lenses are being made available for Fujifilm X-mount: the 16mm f/1.4 DC DN Contemporary, the 30mm f/1.4 DC DN Contemporary, and the 56mm f/1.4 DC DN Contemporary.
Sigma has sneakily been releasing a number of compact, wide-aperture lenses designed for mirrorless cameras. Already on the company's seventh addition to the “I” series, the new 20mm f/2 DG DN is now the widest of its kind yet.
Sigma has announced the 20mm f/2 DG DN lens, its seventh and widest optic in the all-metal I Series of compact primes. The lens will be available for both Sony E-Mount and Leica L-Mount.