- Designed for cameras without APS-C mirror (Super 35)
- Available for Sony E systems, Canon RF, Fujifilm X and L-MOUNT
- It costs $ 919 / £ 779 (Australia Price TBC) and will be on sale from July 10
I first remember having thrown my eyes on the Zoom Sigma 18-35 mm F1.8 lens. It was the essential goal for creatives who cut their teeth in the cinema world, and it seemed to be on each set at a low budget.
It was an advanced lens, in that it offered a maximum f / 1.8 shiny opening on its range of zoom with versatile angle, and it was relatively cheap.
Although it was designed for DSLR cameras, such was its attraction that many users adapted it to other systems, such as Mirrorless. In simple terms, there was no other objective like that.
It is therefore particularly exciting for me that Sigma has just reinvented the objective for cameras without mirror, with the new DC art of 17-40 mm F1.8, with tasty improvements.
The new 17-40 mm F1 F1.8 costs $ 919 / £ 779 (Australia Price TBC) and is presented in the Sony E, Fujifilm X, Canon RF and L-Mount versions, without any word on a Nikon Z version. Sales should start on July 10, although the Canon version will come later in August.
The next reference objective for budding filmmakers?
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The 18-35 mm of Sigma was the first objective Zoom f / 1.8 in the world when it was launched in 2013. Its maximum versatility at the maximum opening and the zoom range was the key to its success – it could be the only objective you needed on the set, in addition it was also a practical objective for fixed images.
This does not mean that the 18-35 mm was the perfect goal. He was heavy, and his autofocus was a bit slow. Now, more than 12 years later, in the steps of the new 17-40 mm F1.8 for cameras without mirror with large improvements at all levels.
First, the latest version is much lighter. In fact, at only 18.9 OZ / 535 g, it is more than 30% lighter than the 18-35 mm.
It is also dust and splash resistant, and equipped with a customizable opening ring offering clicked or smooth adjustments.
Its complex construction of objectives includes 17 elements in 11 groups, because what Sigma dit is a higher optical performance – is a data for a lens without mirror compared to that designed for digital SLRs.
You will have already noted that the range of zoom of 17-40 mm is larger and longer too (it is a complete equivalent of 25.5 to 60 mm), which allows an even more versatile optics.
In fact, the 17-40 mm uses an interior zoom, which means that the length of the lens is unchanged when you change focal distance. Development breathing is also deleted, which is also a boon for filmmakers, just like “the high -response linear actuator” which supposedly offers a silent, fast and precise autofocus.
Art Sigma 17-40 mm F1.8 DC looks like a phenomenal zoom lens for APS-C cameras (Super 35), and I expect it to be done at home on small budget shooting for many years to come.
