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Vivek

Guest
The Sigma 30/2.8 for the m4/3rds. Available for "pre-order".

Anyone cares?
 

kwalsh

New member
It is an APS-C design they slapped a m43 mount on. More specifically, it appears to be the lens for the up and coming Sigma DP2M which they slapped both a NEX and an m43 mount on.

Ken
 

Tullio

New member
When I read that Sigma and Tamron were joining the m4/3 format, I feared that they would simply adapt some of their existing lenses to m4/3 rather then designing new lenses from the ground up. One of the greatest benefits of the m4/3 format is that the lenses can be pretty compact. Having huge lenses with those tiny bodies totally defeats the purpose of the format. I would not buy this lens even if it was f1.2.
 

Tesselator

New member
I'll try it for $50. But I'll try anything for $50. And get your minds out of the gutter - I'm talking about lenses! :D

Seriously what I would like to see from Tamron and Sigma are some of their long telephoto lenses and some of their better zooms made AF and IS for the µ4/3 mount! The 50-500mm springs to mind from Sigma right off. From tamron there's almost too many to name but the 90mm f2.8 Di 1:1 Macro and the 180mm f/3.5 Di 1:1 Macro are both exceptional designs - as well as the Tamron SP AF 200-500mm f/5-6.3 Di LD (IF)! All fantastically superb lenses which I own and adapt to my µ4/3 already! In fact that 200-500mm from Tamron competes with primes of the same FL costing thousands more. I really dig mine!

Those are what I would like to see from those makers. It's what is missing and needed the most IMO. 30mm f/2.8? WTH are they thinking?
 

Jorgen Udvang

Subscriber Member
You forgot the Sigma 150mm f/2.8 Macro. Although it was available in 4/3 mount, it won't AF with m4/3 cameras even with an adapter.

The new Sigma 50-150mm f/2.8 OS would also be an interesting lens for m4/3. Being an 100-300mm eqv., it's almost exactly what my most used telephoto zoom today, the 80-200 AF-S on Nikon 1.5x crop, represents. At 780g, it's around half the weight of the Nikkor.

 
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Tesselator

New member
Yeah, those sound nice! There's so many great choices they could have made. Why the 30/2.8 tho. It's a bit odd IMO! Maybe they're trying to follow instead of lead? Whatever...
 

cjlacz

Member
The new Sigma 50-150mm f/2.8 OS would also be an interesting lens for m4/3. Being an 100-300mm eqv., it's almost exactly what my most used telephoto zoom today, the 80-200 AF-S on Nikon 1.5x crop, represents. At 780g, it's around half the weight of the Nikkor.
Lighter than the Oly 50-200 and with a straight 2.8 would work well with a teleconverter. I would like to see that too.
 

Tullio

New member
You forgot the Sigma 150mm f/2.8 Macro. Although it was available in 4/3 mount, it won't AF with m4/3 cameras even with an adapter.

The new Sigma 50-150mm f/2.8 OS would also be an interesting lens for m4/3. Being an 100-300mm eqv., it's almost exactly what my most used telephoto zoom today, the 80-200 AF-S on Nikon 1.5x crop, represents. At 780g, it's around half the weight of the Nikkor.

I guess the question is, what would the Sigma 50-150mm do that the Zuiko 40-150mm doesn't? It's a great little lens, reasonably priced.
 

biglouis

Well-known member
I'd go for the Sigma 50-500 or even the older 150-500 if it supported AF. It would make an awesome birding lens.

As for the 30/2.8 - without sounding too much like Jerermy Clarkson - what on earth were they thinking?

LouisB
 

Jorgen Udvang

Subscriber Member
I'd go for the Sigma 50-500 or even the older 150-500 if it supported AF. It would make an awesome birding lens.

As for the 30/2.8 - without sounding too much like Jerermy Clarkson - what on earth were they thinking?

LouisB
Agree about the 50-500 or 150-500, but actually, the 50-500 is the older one, the original Bigma, although the version before the 150-500 didn't have OS. That one was also available in 4/3 mount but is difficult to find nowadays.
 

ggibson

Well-known member
As for the 30/2.8 - without sounding too much like Jerermy Clarkson - what on earth were they thinking?

LouisB
As Ken said above, these lenses seem to be designed for their new DP Merrill cameras and then adapted for m4/3 and NEX. I think they seem to be priced appropriately ($200 for the 30mm), and they're still reasonably fast. Inexpensive m4/3 primes aren't exactly plentiful.
 

Jorgen Udvang

Subscriber Member
As Ken said above, these lenses seem to be designed for their new DP Merrill cameras and then adapted for m4/3 and NEX. I think they seem to be priced appropriately ($200 for the 30mm), and they're still reasonably fast. Inexpensive m4/3 primes aren't exactly plentiful.
At that price, and if they are extremely sharp and have a very pleasant bokeh and rendering, they might be nice walk-around alternatives, but since the standard zoom lenses for m4/3 are rather good, they really have to show some extraordinary results.
 
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Popey

Guest
I'm another one in the not needed camp. To me it's neither fish nor fowl. Too short and too slow to be any real use as a portrait lens. I did originally wonder whether it was a macro lens, but no, it's not that either!
 
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