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Sigma to release eleven Art lenses for L-mount along with SA/EF-mount adapter

26 Feb

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Sigma has announced that eleven of its Art lenses will be making their way to the L-mount system this year. Soon, owners of the Leica SL and Panasonic S1 and S1R will be able to get their hands on these:

  • 14mm F1.8 DG HSM | Art
  • 20mm F1.4 DG HSM | Art
  • 24mm F1.4 DG HSM | Art
  • 28mm F1.4 DG HSM | Art
  • 35mm F1.4 DG HSM | Art
  • 40mm F1.4 DG HSM | Art
  • 50mm F1.4 DG HSM | Art
  • 70mm F2.8 DG Macro | Art
  • 85mm F1.4 DG HSM | Art
  • 105mm F1.4 DG HSM | Art
  • 135mm F1.8 DG HSM | Art

Pricing and availability for all of those lenses will be announced at a later date.

In addition, the company is releasing the MC-21 mount converter, which allows owners of select Sigma SA and EF-mount lenses to attach them to L-mount bodies. An LED on the adapter illuminates when a compatible lens is attached, and also notifies users when a firmware update is available. Data for the first set of lenses is built into the MC-21 and will be updated automatically when future lenses are released.

Note that the adapter does not support continuous autofocus.

Compatible full-frame lenses include:

  • 12-24mm F4 DG HSM | Art
  • 14-24mm F2.8 DG HSM | Art
  • 24-35mm F2 DG HSM | Art
  • 24-70mm F2.8 DG OS HSM | Art
  • 24-105mm F4 DG OS HSM | Art
  • 60-600mm F4.5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Sports
  • 70-200mm F2.8 DG OS HSM | Sports
  • 100-400mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Contemporary
  • 120-300mm F2.8 DG OS HSM | Sports
  • 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Sports
  • 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Contemporary

APS-C lenses can also be used via the auto-crop functions in L-mount bodies. Those lenses include:

  • 17-70mm F2.8-4 DC MACRO OS HSM | Contemporary
  • 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM | Art
  • 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM | Contemporary
  • 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 DC MACRO OS HSM | Contemporary
  • 50-100mm F1.8 DC HSM | Art
  • 30mm F1.4 DC HSM | Art

Sigma hasn’t indicated when the MC-21 will be available for purchase.

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Sigma Announces Art Prime Lenses in L-Mount & Mount Converter MC-21

The new products include 11 Art prime lenses for full-frame cameras in L-Mount and a converter for Sigma’s SA mount and Canon EF mount lenses on L-Mount camera bodies.

Ronkonkoma, NY – February 26, 2019 – Sigma Corporation of America, a leading still photo and cinema lens, camera, flash and accessory manufacturer, today announced 11 of its Art prime lenses will soon be available in L-Mount. Sigma also announced the launch of the Sigma Mount Converter MC-21, which will allow Sigma’s SA mount and Canon EF mount lenses to be used on the L-Mount camera bodies. The expansion of the beloved Sigma prime lens line along with the MC-21 converter will increase the extensibility of the L-Mount system and further Sigma’s role in the strategic L-Mount Alliance alongside Leica and Panasonic.

Sigma Art Prime Lenses in L-Mount

Features:
The L-Mount lineup consists of 11 Art prime lenses for full-frame cameras ranging from 14mm to 135mm, allowing Sigma’s award-winning high-performance lenses to be enjoyed by even more shooters on L-Mount cameras. The lineup features high-speed AF and is fully compatible with AF-C mode, in-camera stabilization and in-camera aberration correction. The native L-mount allows for a much more stable feel than using an adaptor. Additionally, the lenses are equipped with a surface treatment to enhance strength, a brass bayonet mount offering exceptional durability, and rubber sealing at the mount connection for dust- and splash-proof construction.

Product Lineup:

  • Sigma 14mm F1.8 DG HSM Art ($ 1,599.00) – World’s First and Only Full-Frame F1.8 Ultra-Wide-Angle
  • Sigma 20mm F1.4 DG HSM Art ($ 899.00) – Bright & Sharp Wide-Angle
  • Sigma 24mm F1.4 DG HSM Art ($ 849.00) – Front Filter Compatible, Fast-Aperture Wide-Angle
  • Sigma 28mm F1.4 DG HSM Art ($ 1,399.00) – Best in Class Performance
  • Sigma 35mm F1.4 DG HSM Art ($ 899.00) – Groundbreaking Flagship Wide-Angle
  • Sigma 40mm F1.4 DG HSM Art ($ 1,399.00) – Beyond Art Series Performance
  • Sigma 50mm F1.4 DG HSM Art ($ 949.00) – Redesigned for High Megapixel DSLRs
  • Sigma 70mm F2.8 DG Macro Art ($ 569.00) – First Macro to Join the Art Line
  • Sigma 85mm F1.4 DG HSM Art ($ 1,199.00) – Award-Winning Ultimate Portrait Lens
  • Sigma 105mm F1.4 DG HSM Art ($ 1,599.00) – The “Bokeh Master”
  • Sigma 135mm F1.5 DG HSM Art ($ 1,399.00) – Award-Winning Prime with Reach

Pricing and availability will be announced later.

Sigma Mount Converter MC-21

Features:
The Sigma Mount Converter MC-21 allows Sigma’s SA mount and Canon EF mount lenses to be used on L-Mount camera bodies, allowing more freedom of choice for L-Mount cameras from Sigma, Leica and Panasonic. The MC-21 increases the number of interchangeable lenses manufactured by Sigma to be used with the L-Mount system by 29 lenses.

Pricing and availability will be announced later.

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Stopping Shopping: Eleven Eerie Abandoned Supermarkets

16 Mar

[ By Steve in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ]

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Aisle be back… NOT! These closed and abandoned supermarkets give us a preview of the coming apocalypse – zombie or otherwise – when shopping simply stops.

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Once bustling, busy and brightly lit, abandoned supermarkets evoke a certain type of grim dreariness tinged with decay so palpable one can smell it… or is that just the foetid aroma of a packaged meat section needing a cleaning it’ll never get?

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Credit Flickr user Wampa-One for choosing an ominously overcast day in November of 2011 to capture this abandoned and label-scarred Foodland store in St Louis, MO, and for returning almost a year later as it was being demolished.

Blue On Blue

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Still abandoned but what a remarkable contrast from that doomed Foodland! Formerly a Vietnamese supermarket in San Jose, CA’s Japantown, this seafoam green & white supermarket once offered shoppers an eclectic range of SEAFOOD, GROCERY, GROCERY and ORIENTAL FOOD. Flickr users Travis Wise (Photographing Travis) and Paul George (snowcrash98), respectively, bring us the above images snapped on different blue-skied days in 2014.

Unfree Market

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Mr. Gorbachev tore down that wall but unaccountably left this Stalinist supermarket standing – go figure. Snazzy blue stripes notwithstanding, the former supermarket from the former East Germany no doubt offered shoppers a typical variety of Warsaw Pact specialties such as cinderblock-sized bars of soap, left boots, and rendered horse-hoof jello.

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Shopper also enjoyed free parking for their two-stroke Trabants, a bonus in a land where “free” was a four-letter word. Credit Flickr user Patrick Scholl (.patrick.) for visiting this abandoned DDR supermarket in January of 2013, camera in hand.

Terminal ACME

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New Jersey doesn’t get much bleaker than this seriously abandoned ACME supermarket in Egg Harbor City – and that’s saying something. Flickr user Kevin Jarrett (kjarrett) visited the decrepit and decaying market situated off US Route 30 on December 14th of 2014, and came back with the above images of retail despair.

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Chapter 11: Eleven Eerie Closed & Abandoned Libraries

02 Feb

[ By Steve in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ]

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Better dead than read? Though the librarians’ shushing days are long past, you still won’t find many places quieter than these 11 abandoned libraries.

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When the Soviet Union finally fell, it fell hard… just like the uncountable number of books, pamphlets and manuals at this abandoned scientific and technical library somewhere in Russia. While a case may be made for tech manuals being out of date and thus superfluous, there’s still something to be said about the terrible waste of knowledge almost completely covering the former library’s floors. The above images were taken in March of 2008 by jst-ru.

Stitched Panorama

Our valiant photo-documentarian returned to the abandoned library in February of 2011 only to witness an unbelievable sight: every last trashed book had been removed and the floors swept so clean they could practically be eaten off of! Who could have done this and what happened to all of those books? Somehow one doubts the literature was salvaged and donated to other libraries; instead we’re guessing someone in the neighborhood enjoyed a warmer winter than usual.

Outta Cass

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Cass Technical High School in Detroit, Michigan opened in 1917, and twenty-five years later the eight-story brick & limestone edifice was the largest high school in the state with 4,200 students attending. Among the school’s more noteworthy alumni are singer Diana Ross and musician Jack White, both of whom no doubt visited the school’s well-stocked library to research their projects.

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In 2005, however, Cass Tech moved to a new building leaving quite a lot behind in the old one. Are those metal detectors just inside the library’s doors? These incredible “Now and Then” images from Detroiturbex superimpose the Cass’s vibrant past onto its sorry present.

It’s Miller Time!

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“The Miller Avenue Library in Oakland has been abandoned for a few years, it seems”, according to Flickr user aaron.michels, who captured the above images on May 22nd of 2008. One clue alluding to the time of its abandonment is the discarded library card of a presumed twenty-something born in 1955. Pornstache FTW!

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