Sigma to launch the world’s widest f/1.4 FF lens! Here is the first image

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Sony A7 camera owners will soon get an extraordinary lens (if they use it with a Canon EF to E-mount adapter). Tomorrow morning (October 16) Sigma will announce the world’s widest f/1.4 Full Frame lens you can get: The 20mm f/1.4 ART lens! And unlike the new Otus 28mm lens you will not have to get bankrupt to buy it. Current [shoplink 41514 ebay]Sigma ART f/1.4 lenses do sell for just under $1.000 (see list on eBay).

And those are the full lens specs (google translated from Japanese):
– Lens construction: 15 sheets group 11
– Large-diameter aspherical lens
– Two FLD lens, adopted five SLD lens. Correction of magnification chromatic aberration to the limit
– AF motor HSM. Adopted a new full-time manual mechanism
– Total length: 129.8mm
– Maximum diameter: 90.7mm
– Weight: 950g
– The diaphragm blades: 9 sheets and (circular aperture)
– Maximum magnification of 1: 7.1
– Thorough the flare and ghost measures
– Design distortion is very small
– The consideration of the sagittal coma flare
– Mounts for Canon, Nikon, for sigma
– Suggested retail price of ¥ 162,000 (over-the-counter price of around ¥ 120,000 in the lowest)

via Digicameinfo, via Mirrorlessrumors.