Sigma 24-70mm & 14mm ART Series Lenses Prices at Last...

Horoscope Fish

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Well it seems the new Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 Art has found its price point after only a few months of waiting. That point being a paltry $900 less than it's Nikon equivalent at $1,300. Yeah, only $900 less. Oh, and the Sigma 14mm will set you back $1,600 but who cares about WA primes, amiright??!!

Depending on how the new Sigma 24-70 performs, my Tamron 24-70 f/2.8 may be up for sale soon.

Sigma Reveals Pricing on New 14mm, 24-70mm
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ejronin

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Horoscope Fish said:
Well it seems the new Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 Art has found its price point That point being an almost paltry $900 less than it's Nikon equivalent... Holy c--p!!

Depending on how it performs, my Tamron 24-70 f/2.8 may be up for sale soon.

Sigma Reveals Pricing on New 14mm, 24-70mm
(via PetaPixel).
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The only thing I don't like about the ART series of lenses is concept of the dock to calibrate the lens to the body.

I have a couple friends who have the 50 ART and they hate the calibration process, stating it's neither the most intuitive process and the results can vary enough that it's a consideration on purchasing another ART series.

This doesn't pose much issue with me since I don't have several cameras and I've been curious about trying one out myself, however I have a converted Distagon 50 and a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D that I like quite a bit. From what I've seen and heard from single body users, they love the ART line. I've even read some comparisons to Zeiss glass when it comes to CA and center sharpness. Personally, they do look better than the Zeiss Milvus/Otus...or 8000 dollar digital eggplant)

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Horoscope Fish

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ejronin said:
The only thing I don't like about the ART series of lenses is concept of the dock to calibrate the lens to the body.

I have a couple friends who have the 50 ART and they hate the calibration process, stating it's neither the most intuitive process and the results can vary enough that it's a consideration on purchasing another ART series.
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I agree it's not a particularly intuitive bit of software but once you understand it, I dunno... Not an issue for me. If you don't want to use the Sigma dock, you don't have to; Nikon bodies in the 7xxx range and better have an AF Fine Tuning function you can use instead, or you can have Sigma do the calibration for you, or you can forgo calibrating altogether. Being able to calibrate my 35mm at thee different distances is what really made the lens come to life though. It was really, really good before calibration but it's flat out amazing now that it's calibrated. On top of that Sigma calibrated my 50mm lens for free, again at three different distances. And calibrating at all thee distances made a huge difference on that lens as well. My Tamron lens can be focus-calibrated (with a dock) at four different distances AND at three focal different focal-lengths, for a total of twelve calibration points. Both the Tamron and Sigma lenses write the adjustment to the lens firmware, which is nice. The docks also allow me to update the firmware and/or modify certain aspects of my lenses, such as the vibration control.

With my Nikon lenses I have one AF calibration point and that usually means an average, which sucks IMO. Then that information is stored on the camera body and not on the lens, which also sucks, IMO.

Personally... I think these "docks" are one of the best things to come along in a long time and probably accounts for why there is precious little Nikon glass in my bag any more.
 
ejronin

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Horoscope Fish said:
I agree it's not a particularly intuitive bit of software but once you understand it, I dunno... Not an issue for me. If you don't want to use the Sigma dock, you don't have to; Nikon bodies in the 7xxx range and better have an AF Fine Tuning function you can use instead, or you can have Sigma do the calibration for you, or you can forgo calibrating altogether. Being able to calibrate my 35mm at thee different distances is what really made the lens come to life though. It was really, really good before calibration but it's flat out amazing now that it's calibrated. On top of that Sigma calibrated my 50mm lens for free, again at three different distances. And calibrating at all thee distances made a huge difference on that lens as well. My Tamron lens can be focus-calibrated (with a dock) at four different distances AND at three focal different focal-lengths, for a total of twelve calibration points. Both the Tamron and Sigma lenses write the adjustment to the lens firmware, which is nice. The docks also allow me to update the firmware and/or modify certain aspects of my lenses, such as the vibration control.

With my Nikon lenses I have one AF calibration point and that usually means an average, which sucks IMO. Then that information is stored on the camera body and not on the lens, which also sucks, IMO.

Personally... I think these "docks" are one of the best things to come along in a long time and probably accounts for why there is precious little Nikon glass in my bag any more.
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Hm, that much wasn't explained - either they hadn't relayed it or weren't thinking in those terms but it spins the perspectives quite a bit. Good info, thanks.

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