Amateur Photographer - UK (2019-07-27)

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IN THE same week as

announcing the Sigma

fp, the company unveiled

three new full-frame

lenses designed specifi cally

for the Sony E and Leica L

mirrorless mounts: the

35mm F1.2 DG DN Art

(£1,459), 14-24mm F2.

DG DN Art (£1,459) and

the 45mm F2.8 DG DN

Contemporary (£549).

The 35mm is the fastest

AF lens released for L- and

E-mounts. The lens is not

light (1,090g) or diminutive

(87.8x136.2mm) but has

some impressive specs.

The 14-24mm F2.

DG DN also offers a fast

maximum aperture, but is

two-thirds the weight of

Sigma’s equivalent DSLR

lens, at 795g. The 45mm

f/2.8 is light and portable

at 215g, with a dedicated

aperture ring and a 24cm

minimum focusing distance.

Both E- and L-mount are

available to pre-order now.

Fast lenses

revealed too

Smallest & lightest

full-frame unveiled

IT’S BEEN a relatively quiet year
for big camera surprises, but
Sigma has pulled a rabbit out of
the hat by announcing what it
claims to be the ‘world’s smallest and
lightest’ pocketable full-frame
model. The new Sigma fp
mirrorless camera measures just
112.6x69.9x45.3mm, weighs
a mere 370g, and is based on a
24.6-million-pixel BSI-CMOS Bayer
sensor rather than the multi-layer
Foveon chip technology which Sigma
has been pushing for years.
The fp, which stands for fortissimo
pianissimo (‘very loud and very soft’),
will take L-mount lenses and has a
fi xed screen but no viewfi nder. It has
been designed from the ground up
to stand out from its rivals. For

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example, you can toggle between

stills and video mode by moving

a slider with one fi nger. It is also

able to record video in 12-bit

CinemaDNG format Ð a cross-

platform ‘video raw’ format.

On-body Tone Control and Colour

buttons, meanwhile, enable you to

get to these options quickly, and

Fill Light adjustments are available in

camera. Furthermore, the camera

has an entirely electronic shutter, to

help with candid street photography,

for example. It is no slouch, either,

boasting a frame rate of 18fps.

Also noteworthy is the ability to

dial the ISO down as low as 6 – an

interesting innovation we can’t wait to

try out. At the other end of the scale,

the native sensitivity range goes to

ISO 25,600, and can be expanded

to ISO 102,400. The AF system

uses contrast detection only and can

focus down to -5EV in low light,

Sigma claims. Returning to movies,

the fashionable ‘teal and orange’

cinematic look is also achievable on

the Sigma fp, via a shooting mode.

The fp should be a particularly

good match to Sigma’s new compact

45mm f/2.8 lens (see story on right),

and a decent range of accessories

has been announced as well,

including an LVF-11 viewfi nder, fl ash,

hotshoe unit, and more. The exact

price and release date of the fp

has yet to be confi rmed, but Sigma

is suggesting it will be on sale in

the autumn. For more information,

visit http://www.sigma-global.com.

The Sigma fp lets you easily

toggle between stills and video

Sigma’s 45mm F2.8 DG DN

Contemporary weighs 215g

The 370g full-

frame, L-mount

Sigma fp features

a 24.6MP sensor