Now I wonder why Canon never made a 20mm f/1.4L. Is Canon wrong to think there's no money in it, or Sigma wrong to think there is?
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Antono Refa said:Now I wonder why Canon never made a 20mm f/1.4L. Is Canon wrong to think there's no money in it, or Sigma wrong to think there is?
9VIII said:Most of the technical points given are standard fare. "Low distortion" and "Corrected for CA" are labels applied to every lens they make.
If it does produce geometry as clean as the Fuji 14mmf2.8 then we have our best fast aperture wide angle lens ever. But I'm not holding my breath.
ahsanford said:Antono Refa said:Now I wonder why Canon never made a 20mm f/1.4L. Is Canon wrong to think there's no money in it, or Sigma wrong to think there is?
The latter, surely. Canon knows from 23 years of poor sales of the EF 20mm f/2.8 USM to not offer an L in this FL.
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ahsanford said:9VIII said:Most of the technical points given are standard fare. "Low distortion" and "Corrected for CA" are labels applied to every lens they make.
If it does produce geometry as clean as the Fuji 14mmf2.8 then we have our best fast aperture wide angle lens ever. But I'm not holding my breath.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but each time one of these fast UWA lenses comes out, everyone gets geeked for astro use, but just one test photo of bad coma completely kills it's appeal.
This has happened a number of times in the past 12-18 months, hasn't it?
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Maximum magnification: 1:7.1 (0.14x)
The earlier 20mm f/1.8 was also a pretty weak lens. Soft in the corners, never really sharp at any aperture...never really found a niche that it fit.Mika said:Maximum magnification: 1:7.1 (0.14x)
Sigma! The earlier 20/1.8 had better close focusing ability (0.25x) which made that lens cool, why not provide 0.2x here?
That F/1.4, though, is intriguing
I suppose it came to the choice between 0.25x or F/1.4, and they went with F/1.4.
ahsanford said:9VIII said:Most of the technical points given are standard fare. "Low distortion" and "Corrected for CA" are labels applied to every lens they make.
If it does produce geometry as clean as the Fuji 14mmf2.8 then we have our best fast aperture wide angle lens ever. But I'm not holding my breath.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but each time one of these fast UWA lenses comes out, everyone gets geeked for astro use, but just one test photo of bad coma completely kills it's appeal.
This has happened a number of times in the past 12-18 months, hasn't it?
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preppyak said:The earlier 20mm f/1.8 was also a pretty weak lens. Soft in the corners, never really sharp at any aperture...never really found a niche that it fit.
I'm betting the .25x wasnt possible with a formula that limits coma and is sharp across the frame...and the sales are in the latter two aspects.
vscd said:This small familybased company surprises ones again. A 20mm f1.4... yay. Could be the first time that I buy a Sigma (at least a lens, I own the fabulous DP3M). The must be a new engineer-samurai inside the team, with intense karma
Count me in! Might as well start selling my Samyang 14mm.
I wouldn't sell my Samyang anytime... and the Samyang is nearly perfect, Coma-wise. And the 14mm Look is totally different from 20mm.
Well there are so many ifs in the above sentence... But count me in ... if ... all the above ...ifs are satisfied...pwp said:I'm loving this. Sigma keeps coming up with surprises. If the Astroboys get their clean coma and the rest of us get reliable AF, and it delivers better IQ than my L24 f/1.4II at f/1.4 (wouldn't be hard....) then they've got themselves another winner.
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Canon Rumors said:RRP: ¥ 162,000 (over-the-counter price should be around and above ¥ 120,000)
chmteacher said:Thoughts on this for crop bodies? F 1.4 is much nicer than Canon's 35mm f/2 on full frame...
siegsAR said:vscd said:This small familybased company surprises ones again. A 20mm f1.4... yay. Could be the first time that I buy a Sigma (at least a lens, I own the fabulous DP3M). The must be a new engineer-samurai inside the team, with intense karma
Count me in! Might as well start selling my Samyang 14mm.
I wouldn't sell my Samyang anytime... and the Samyang is nearly perfect, Coma-wise. And the 14mm Look is totally different from 20mm.
I have to agree, thats what i thought after my previous post. I'm still looking forward to this Sigma, we'll see in the actual reviews soon.