Quick, large Sigma 14mm F1.4 DG DN | Artwork prime lens coming

Sigma has introduced a quick new wide-angle prime for L-Mount and Sony E-mount, the 14mm F1.4 DG DN | Artwork – it’s the world’s first 14mm F1.4 aperture lens for mirrorless cameras, excluding fisheye lenses, and will enchantment to followers of evening capturing and astrophotography. 

In response to the corporate, the Sigma 14mm F1.4 DG DN | Artwork has been designed from the bottom up for wide-angle functions; not solely star capturing, but in addition landscapes, weddings and interiors.

Sigma 14mm F1.4 DG DN | Artwork – key options

Huge aperture
The F1.4 aperture is 2 thirds of a cease brighter than its predecessor, the Sigma 14mm F1.8 DG HSM | Artwork for DSLRs, which suggests it permits 58% extra gentle on to the digital camera’s sensor, in response to the corporate. This makes it appropriate for photographing the evening sky, in addition to for utilizing hand-held in low gentle or darkish environments.

Astrophotography slant
The Sigma 14mm F1.4 DG DN | Artwork contains 19 components, 15 teams (1 SLD, 3 FLD and 4 aspherical components). With an emphasis on optical high quality at infinity focus, Sigma claims it has well-controlled optical aberrations and sagittal coma flare, which ensures that stars and different vivid factors of sunshine stay sharp and spherical in any respect apertures and throughout your complete body.

The lens makes use of in-camera optical aberration management profiles to assist right for any distortion or vignetting, whereas optical points which are tougher to enhance digitally, equivalent to nook softness and chromatic aberration, are eradicated by the lens’s optical design, it’s claimed. Utilizing optical aberration management selectively on this manner helps to maintain the scale and weight of the lens down (it weighs 1170g).

Aperture ring and Lens Heater Retainer
Inbuilt to the barrel of the is Sigma14mm F1.4 DG DN | Artwork is an aperture ring, which will be set to auto for aperture management on the digital camera. The ring may also be de-clicked if most well-liked, or locked in place in order that it’s not unintentionally knocked. On the entrance of the barrel is a Lens Heater Retainer, which was a function launched on the Sigma 20mm F1.4 DG DN | Artwork. This helps maintain a warmth strip in place when capturing out within the chilly, so as to stop condensation build-up on the entrance component.

The Sigma14mm F1.4 DG DN | Artwork additionally incorporates a rear filter holder that enables sheet-type filters to be connected. Delicate sort filters are most well-liked by astrophotographers as they make stars seem softer, bigger and brighter. Different sorts of sheet-type filter may also be used.

A brand new entrance lens cap (beneath) has been designed with these kinds of filters in thoughts. Two filter slots are supplied to retailer pre-cut sheet-type filters, permitting them to be carried with the lens. The brand new entrance cap additionally incorporates a safe lock mechanism to stop the cap from falling off.

Focussing with the Sigma14mm F1.4 DG DN | Artwork
A handbook focus lock (MFL) change will be discovered on the facet of the lens barrel, to allow astrophotographers to seek out infinity then change the MFL change to Lock, which disables the main focus ring. Which means that even when the ring is knocked the main focus will stay at infinity. The lens additionally has a TS-141 Tripod Socket, which ensures a extra balanced set-up nearer to the centre of gravity when mounted on a tripod.

The Sigma 14mm F1.4 DG DN | Artwork is fitted with the Excessive-response Linear Actuator (HLA) motor, which delivers quicker, smoother, quieter and extra correct focusing than a stepping motor, in response to the corporate. ‘That is solely the third Sigma lens to be designed with this know-how, making certain very responsive focusing in all capturing conditions.’

An AFL button is included on the lens barrel, which will be customised relying on the digital camera and system.

Different specs of the Sigma 14mm F1.4 DG DN | Artwork

• Angle-of-view: 114.2°
• Variety of diaphragm blades: 11 (rounded diaphragm)
• Minimal aperture: F16
• Minimal focusing distance: 30cm
• Most magnification ratio: 1:11.9
• Dimensions (max diameter x size): 101.4 × 149.9mm
• Weight: 1170g
• Equipped equipment: Case, Cowl Lens Cap LC1014-01, Rear Cap LCR II, Tripod Socket TS-141, Protecting Cowl PT-41, Information Plate GP-11

The Sigma14mm F1.4 DG DN | Artwork goes onsale on the twenty third June 2023 and can price $1599 / £1399

You possibly can watch a YouTube video in regards to the new lens, introduced by Sigma CEO Kazuto Yamaki, at 1pm BST in the present day.

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