SIGMA’s Art series has always pushed the boundaries of creative expression, and the SIGMA 50mm F1.2 DG DN | Art sets a new standard. This lens is engineered to deliver exceptional resolution across the entire focus range, from its wide-open maximum aperture, while also producing stunning, smooth bokeh. The combination of sharp focus and creamy out-of-focus areas creates a striking three-dimensional effect, made possible by the F1.2 aperture. Its 13-blade diaphragm further enhances the smoothness of the bokeh. Focus breathing is well-controlled, ensuring the lens’s F1.2 capabilities are fully utilized for video work as well.
- Full-Frame | f/1.2 to f/16
- Sony E/FE Mount
- Fast, Wide-Aperture Lens
- High-Response Linear Actuator AF System
- Four Aspherical Lens Elements
- Rounded 13-Blade Diaphragm
- De-Clickable Aperture Ring
- Super Multilayer Coating
- Dust- and Splash-Resistant Construction
In terms of image quality, SIGMA has achieved superb resolving power at every aperture, along with a rich, large-aperture bokeh at F1.2. Additionally, the lens has been designed with a minimalist approach, resulting in a remarkably compact and lightweight build.
Proudly serving as a tool for creative expression, this lens embodies the excellent build quality expected from SIGMA’s Art line
Crafted using high-precision components made from lightweight yet durable TSC (Thermally Stable Composite) and other materials, the lens offers exceptional rigidity and durability, in line with SIGMA’s Art series standards. Despite its robust construction, it remains portable, making it a reliable, long-lasting photographic tool.
Advanced Shooting Features
The lens includes an AFL button, customizable via select camera menus for added functionality. It also features an aperture ring, an aperture ring lock switch, and a click switch that allows users to toggle the aperture click on or off, offering greater control and flexibility during shooting.
Dust and Splash Resistant Design with Water and Oil Repellent Coating
Designed to withstand challenging conditions, the lens has a dust and splash resistant build. The front element is treated with a water and oil repellent coating, ensuring photographers can confidently capture images in harsh outdoor environments without worrying about lens damage or performance.
Brightness of F1.2 Aperture and Exceptional Sharpness from Close-up to Infinity
The lens’s advanced optical design delivers remarkable resolving power while minimizing aberrations, even at its wide-open F1.2 aperture. This ensures crisp, detailed images without color fringing, regardless of the shooting conditions. The floating focus system further enhances short-range performance, maintaining consistent, high-quality image resolution across the entire focus range, from close-up subjects to distant scenes.
Smooth, Rich Bokeh Without Color Fringing
Carefully corrected for spherical aberration, sagittal coma flare, axial chromatic aberration, and other distortions, the lens produces soft, natural bokeh with no color bleeding. This allows for smooth transitions between in-focus and out-of-focus areas. Double-line bokeh is also reduced, enabling photographers to fully exploit the rich, creamy bokeh effect for expressive, artistic shots.
Minimized Focus Breathing
The lens design optimizes the arrangement of focus elements and uses aspherical lenses to significantly reduce focus breathing. This minimizes changes in the angle of view during focus shifts, providing a smooth, natural transition when recording video, ensuring more cinematic and professional-looking results.
Flare and Ghosting Reduction
Flare and ghosting, which can degrade image quality, are controlled by leveraging advanced simulation technology. With strong resistance to backlighting, the lens maintains clear, sharp images even in challenging lighting conditions, delivering consistently high-quality results.
Dual HLA System for Precision and Speed
Incorporating a newly developed dual High-response Linear Actuator (HLA) system, this lens offers both compact size and high-speed autofocus. The innovative system reduces the actuator’s volume without compromising its thrust power, providing fast, precise, and quiet autofocus performance, ideal for both photography and videography.
Streamlined Lens Construction and Minimalist Mechanical Design
SIGMA has meticulously designed this lens by reducing its components to the bare essentials. Each glass element is made as thin as possible while utilizing high-refractive-index materials and four aspherical lenses. This precision manufacturing, achieved at SIGMA's Aizu factory, ensures the delicate handling required for such thin glass elements, allowing for efficient mass production.
Additionally, the floating focus system enhances optical performance while keeping the overall lens length shorter, resulting in a more compact design. During the mechanical design phase, weight reduction was prioritized by systematically removing unnecessary components. As a result, SIGMA has created the lightest lens in its class, weighing just 745g, without compromising performance.
Specifications
- Product Line: Art
- Construction: 17 elements in 12 groups (4 aspherical lenses)
- Sensor Size: Full Frame
- Angle of view: 46.8°
- Number of diaphragm blades: 13 (rounded diaphragm)
- Minimum aperture: f/16
- Minimum focusing distance: 40 cm
- Maximum magnification ratio: 1:6.2
- Dimensions (diameter x length): Ø81.0mm × 110.8mm
- Weight: 740 g
- Filter diameter: 72mm
- Supplied Accessories: Lens hood LH782-03, Front Cap LCF-72 Ⅲ, Rear Cap LCR , Lens case LS-316SEL
SIGMA is a manufacturing company that produces and distributes digital cameras, interchangeable lenses and photographic accessories. Since their inception in 1961, they have exclusively produced photo and video related products. In other words, SIGMA is a company that focuses all its efforts on creating tools for photography. From their own manufacturing base in Aizu to their supply chain in the Tohoku region, all of their products are completely "Made in Japan." The close communication between every part of the production system enables exceptional levels of manufacturing technology and quality control, enabling SIGMA to provide products, functions and quality that continue to exceed expectations.
SIGMA continues to innovate and explore with unmatched dedication and fervor.