Bring your love of shooting both stills and video together with one, effortless lens! The new Sigma 12mm F1.4 DC | Contemporary is an ultra-wide-angle prime lens that achieves the widest angle of view of 12mm among all F1.4 lenses for APS-C cameras available in the market today. Featuring the latest optical design, the lens delivers high resolution, capturing vast starry skies and landscapes with exquisite detail from its wide-open aperture. While maintaining uncompromising performance, the compact and lightweight design maximizes the mobility of APS-C cameras, enabling agile shooting. This large-aperture ultra-wide-angle lens seamlessly combines high performance and portability, bringing new perspectives to a wide range of scenes, whether stills and video, including outdoor landscapes, travel, and street photography. Bring creativity and colour, superb image quality and mobility, into everyday moments!
The Sigma 12mm F1.4 DC | Contemporary boasts the title of world’s first lens to achieve a 12mm focal length with a large F1.4 aperture. Equivalent to 18mm, in 35mm format, the lens can capture the entire scene, the dynamic angle of view and brightness of F1.4 enable highly impressive photography even in low-light conditions, such as nighttime street photography. The ultra-wife angle is also perfect for group selfies and vlogging. With three double-sided aspherical lenses and two SLD glass elements, the lens achieves high optical performance from a wide-open aperture of F1.4. Sagittal coma flare is also well corrected, ensuring clear, crisp images from edge to edge, even in starry night scenes where fine details and sharpness are essential.
To maintain a compact and lightweight design for excellent portability, the double-sided aspherical elements have been thoughtfully placed, resulting in a total length of 69.4mm and a weight of 225g, despite its ultra-wide angle and large aperture. This ensures high mobility, making the lens easy to carry around for travel and outdoor scenes, as well as making it compatible with shooting grips and gimbals, making it a brilliant lens for photographers and videographers alike.
Capture important moments without missing a beat thanks to the lens's high-speed, high-precision autofocus, which is achieved by driving a lightweight focus lens with a stepping motor that enables precise control. The lens also delivers high tracking performance in scenes with movement, enabling high-quality video production.
For videographers, focus breathing is suppressed, minimizing changes in the angle of view caused by focus shift and enabling smooth, natural-looking focus pulls when recording video. The lens is also equipped with an aperture ring for intuitive control of the aperture. Using advanced simulation technology, flare and ghosting have been largely eliminated, ensuring that the lens renders rich, high-contrast results in all conditions. In addition to a dust- and splash-resistant structure, the frontmost surface of the lens has a water- and oil-repellent coating applied, so that the lens can be used safely even in harsh outdoor environments.
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