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vor 41 Minuten schrieb Joakim:

Yes unfortunately. Let’s hope it becomes true in a not so distant future though, I would love to have a Leica 135mm APO lens.

 I hope so too, but what sing the Duo Zager and Evans (about 1969?) - In the year 2525 .... .

.. but there was a "pancake" 2/200mm from Laowa in the Sony-pipeline, I hope the Sigma will be a bit smaller .... 

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Looks monstrous. As expected. Can be fun to play with, I imagine, but hardly a lens for descretion (or aging shoulders).

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2 minutes ago, helged said:

Looks monstrous. As expected.

About 4 months ago, I emailed Sigma Aizu asking if they had any plans on producing a Contemporary 200mm, i.e. SMALL, like we had in the film days from Minolta and Nikon. The answer was negative.

But I suggest that people keep emailing them and asking for one. Maybe they'll get the clue. The person who I contacted agreed that it would be a boon to landscape photographers, especially since no one makes one these days.

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20 minutes ago, wellfleet said:

About 4 months ago, I emailed Sigma Aizu asking if they had any plans on producing a Contemporary 200mm, i.e. SMALL, like we had in the film days from Minolta and Nikon. The answer was negative.

But I suggest that people keep emailing them and asking for one. Maybe they'll get the clue. The person who I contacted agreed that it would be a boon to landscape photographers, especially since no one makes one these days.

My 200mm-ish lens for lanscape etc on SLx is Leica APO-Elmar-S 180 mm f/3.5. Not small by any means, but quite low weight. And with an incredible sharpness, including on SL3. An underrated lens as far as I can tell.

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4 hours ago, helged said:

Looks monstrous. As expected. Can be fun to play with, I imagine, but hardly a lens for descretion (or aging shoulders).

on the Chinese blogs est price is around $4000

"may also release a second-generation 35mm f/1.2 and a 12mm f/1.4 APS-C lens on August 19th."

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7 hours ago, frame-it said:

on the Chinese blogs est price is around $4000

"may also release a second-generation 35mm f/1.2 and a 12mm f/1.4 APS-C lens on August 19th."

Top glass has a cost (and good, in that respect, that the lens isn't coming from Leica...).

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vor 11 Stunden schrieb helged:

My 200mm-ish lens for lanscape etc on SLx is Leica APO-Elmar-S 180 mm f/3.5. Not small by any means, but quite low weight. And with an incredible sharpness, including on SL3. An underrated lens as far as I can tell.

I have an older manual Voigtländer 180mm/F4.0 Apo Lantar SL (Nikon mount) lens, made by Cosina.
Not comparable by any means of the release of a fast autofocus Sigma 200mm/F2.0 lens of course.

But the quality is very good. Specially by the absence of LoCA.  And also at close focus distance = 1.2 m (1:4) it offer great quality.
Small and weight is just under 500 grams.  (That's why I bought it in those days).
https://phillipreeve.net/blog/review-voigtlander-180mm-4-0-sl-apo-lanthar/
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10 minutes ago, Babylonia said:

I have an older manual Voigtländer 180mm/F4.0 Apo Lantar SL (Nikon mount) lens, made by Cosina.
Not comparable by any means of the release of a fast autofocus Sigma 200mm/F2.0 lens of course.

But the quality is very good. Specially by the absence of LoCA.  And also at close focus distance = 1.2 m (1:4) it offer great quality.
Small and weight is just under 500 grams.  (That's why I bought it in those days).
https://phillipreeve.net/blog/review-voigtlander-180mm-4-0-sl-apo-lanthar/
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+1. Used that lens for reach when Leica M was my main system (used with EVF). A very fine 200mm-ish lens.

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45 minutes ago, frame-it said:

though leica will prolly re-brand it and sell it for $8000 ;)

 

😊 If so, that would be a steal, sort of... Would think a factor 2.5-3 higher than Sigma, so $10000+. But the odds are lower than low. Good that Sigma delivers, though!

Thinking about it, the L-mount collaboration still lacks a body that approaches the big players wrt quick, reliable and robust focus tracking. That SL3 still has the beta animal tracking, almost 1.5 years after the release, is sort of underwhelming. It's fine to have lenses with (ulrra)fast AF, but the the other side of the lens mount needs to be up to speed as well... Let's say at a level of Canon R5 II or thereabout.

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vor 17 Minuten schrieb helged:

2.8 kg (or should it be 1.8 kg?), accepting 1.4x and 2x extenders, giving 400mm f4: https://www.l-rumors.com/here-are-the-full-leaked-images-and-specs-of-the-new-sigma-200mm-f-2-0

But these are not the extebnders for L-mount. I hope it's a typo. The 2001 and 1401 are for Canon and Nikon and and they don't protrude that far into the lens. 

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3 hours ago, cdnchris said:

I wonder if those images from photorumors are real - it would be very interesting to see Sigma market the lens with images showing an e-mount lens adapted to a Nikon body

It makes sense for them to test it with a Nikon adapter. Nikon probably won't let them sell the lens in Z mount, but a lot of Nikon shooters will still want it.

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