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Sigma 12-24mm Lens Now Official
The Sigma 12-24mm f/4.5-5.6 EX DG Aspherical lens that I first reported last week has now appeared on the official Sigma website. This lens is quite slow but it will translate to a 19-38mm lens on a Canon EOS 10D/300D, for example.
The large angle of view (122 degrees super wide angle of view at 12mm along the diagonal axis) is ideal for shootings indoor as well as landscape photography. It has a variable angle of view from 122 degrees at 84.1 degrees. Four Special Low Dispersion (SLD) glass elements are provided for effective compensation of color aberration, which is a common problem with super-wide angle lenses. Two pieces of Glass Mold and one-piece hybrid aspherical lenses offer excellent correction for distortion as well as all types of aberration. By effective arrangement of lens elements and advanced technology this lens has Super Compact dimensions of 3.9 inches full-length, and 3.4 inches maximum diameter.
It is equipped with Inner focusing system that will keep the length of the lens unchanged while controlling aberration. The models, which are equipped with HSM (Hyper Sonic Motor, available for Sigma, Canon and Nikon camera mount lens) system offer Full Time Manual Focusing. It has a minimum focusing distance of 11 inches (28cm) at all focal lengths. This lens is equipped with an integral Petal-type hood to block out extraneous light.
Available for SIGMA AF, Canon AF and Nikon AF: October 2003,
For Minolta AF and Pentax AF: November 2003
Website: Sigma
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#1 John
Awesome! Gonna have to ask my Sigma rep about pricing for that soon. Now all they have to do is make the 80-400 OS lens in a Pentax mount and my faith in Sigma will be restored!
10:28 am - Wednesday, October 8, 2003
#2 Mark Goldstein
Pricing at the German photography retailer AC-Foto is EUR 949,00 and £665 Sterling. So it should be even cheaper than $665
Should go well with the *ist D that you've just ordered!
12:24 pm - Wednesday, October 8, 2003
#3 chris mason
Beware!!
I've had this lens since June of this year. I bought it especially to use with a job which involves photographing thousands of properties. The lens is great but has a problem when in autofocus mode on my Canon 10D. When at its widest setting around 12mm it consistently focuses well short of infinity (often around 1.5-2.0metres) and produces out of focus shots. (At focal lengths between 17mm and 24mm it generally hits the spot in autofocus). The only way to be sure is to manually focus at infinity. I flagged up this problem with Jessops, where I bought the lens. They got in four other Sigma 12-24 lenses we tried them on my 10D, another shop stock 10D and a 300D and the problem replicated on all these bodies and all the lenses. I had my chip re-calibrated and this made no difference.
Jessops and myself e-mailed Sigma about this problem, although the e-mail was acknowledged by Sigma neither of us has as yet received an explanation for the this problem.
4:31 pm - Thursday, October 28, 2004
#4 Mark Goldstein
I was considering this lens myself, but opted for the Canon 17-40mm in the end.
Maybe the new Tamron 11-22mm will be a better bet?
10:32 am - Friday, October 29, 2004
#5 bernhard
Beware!
I once had to 'throw away' a Sigma lens (17-35mm) for the same problem chris described. Erratic focusing well short of infinity (often around 1.5 metres) and it produced out of focus shots. I used a Canon EOS-1D Mark II.
So when I saw the new Sigma 12-24mm zoom, this was the first thing I checked. And I found the same problem with this new one two - in the shop the body was a Canon EOS 5D. I'm sure it's not the camera body. So, what is wrong with these Sigma lenses?
4:44 pm - Thursday, December 21, 2006
#6 nick in japan
I love Sigma for many reasons, invested in the long telephoto models, but,when it came time for a short zoom, went for the Tokina ATX 12-24 after going thru alot of evals and blogs.
The near Nikon quality at a much lesser cost was the primary the reason, love the unique manual setting too!
No regrets!
5:33 am - Friday, December 22, 2006
#7 Nelson
I have a Canon 30D and thinking of buying the Sigma 12-24. Has anyone experienced the out of focus issue with the 30D or does everyone think it is the lens?
11:32 pm - Thursday, February 7, 2008
#8 Mikey Gannon
I have had this lens for about 4 years.
It worked fine on my 300D. I got myself a 400D and it worked but seemed a bit soft.
But I've just got a new 40D and it doesn't autofocus at all!
Well when I say it doesn't I mean, the camera thinks it's focused but the lens is out by quite a bit.
I'm thinking of getting the csnon 10-22 instead.
3:14 pm - Saturday, May 24, 2008
#9 Mark Goldstein
Mikey, it sounds like the lens is either front- or back-focusing. You should be able to get this adjusted by Sigma or Canon.
11:49 am - Tuesday, May 27, 2008