[carrrlangas]

Let'c compare the Sigma 135mm F/1.8 to the Pentax version.... Or maybe the 24mm F/1.4? Or the 24-70mm F/2.0?

Pentax doesn't make any of the lenses on the list (other than the 50mm). Hard to know what Pentax versions would look like or weigh.

Sure, let´s not forget to compare the sigma 50-150mm f/2.8 OS at 1,35Kg with the DA50-135/2.8 at 765 GRAMS...

I don´t care about playing this game but stop being such a jackass... It´s easy to design fast without size or weight restrictions... Luckily, there´s a wallet / taste / need and APPLICATION for everything.

[scratchpaddy]

Carrlangas has a point, though. Compactness is always very low on Sigma's list of priorities. Whatever happens, you can count on these lenses being very bulky.

[carrrlangas]

A 400mm f/2.8 lens, heavy and big? Never!

haha, I´ll never know. 300/4 at 1Kg is all I´d hold. Add a good TC if more range is needed

[scratchpaddy]

I'm glad I never really shoot longer than 100mm, as things get very big and expensive very fast out there on the long end. I'll just stick with the 18-35mm whenever it comes out. I might be interested in the 50mm, but only because it'll drive down the price of the current version.

Oh yeah, I hope (for the sake of the rest of you) that these new telephotos will be smaller than their 200-500mm f/2.8...



(yours for only $26,000)

[Digitalis]

I hope that these new telephotos will be smaller than their 200-500mm f/2.8

Primes are nearly always smaller than their zoom counterparts....though there have been some notable exceptions in the past.

[jeffshaddix]

Sigma's ramping up...I'd like to see their Foveon department do the same.

[Winder]

Sigma's ramping up...I'd like to see their Foveon department do the same.

Yes. I wish Sigma would find ways to address some of the color/noise issues at higher ISO. I would love to see Pentax use a Foveon APS-C sensor. I just don't know if Sigma has the ability to develop the technology on their own.

[scratchpaddy]

Sigma's ramping up...I'd like to see their Foveon department do the same.

Me too, but I hold out little hope. It took eight years to get to the second-generation X3, and only three years have passed since then. Sigma's lens development is going full-steam, but I've seen no indication that they're putting the same energy into their sensor development.

[Quazimoto]

I may end up looking stupid saying thing (and I hope I DO, because I'd love it if they did make it) but I don't think that 24-70 f2 can exist.
Here is why:
For a long time the equation with what is possible in a zoom lens has been, f2.8 is good for 3x zoom in a 35mm sensor. 24-70 f2.8, 70-200 f2.8.
The same applied with cropped sensors only with slightly more zoom available, DA 16-50 f2.8, CaNikon 17-55 f2.8 pushed the zoom range as far as it had gone.
Then Sigma blew us away with an f1.8 zoom lens. WHOA. Only it did come at a cost - that is, slightly less than 2x zoom, rather than a bit more than 3. And it was only available on a cropped sensor, and the thing is huge (not complaining, but for an 18-35 lens, it is very big).

Now, they're saying that not only can we extend that range to 2.8x rather than 2x, (24-70 as rumoured), but that's available in FF?! If this DOES exist, it's going to be a beast. And I mean a beast, like 86mm front element, 1.4kg at least.
I am also not saying that no one would buy it... an f2 zoom on FF would just be so amazing, that of course people would buy it... but personally I don't think it's real.
Like I said, I hope I'm proven wrong.

[PePe]

The long telephotos would be very interesting, in case they would be available in K-mount.

[jpzk]

Using the basic N=F/D calculation,

500/4.5 would be 111mm front element diameter.
400/2.8 would be 142mm front element diameter.

I think it'll be quite a bit heavier than the 500 F4.5.

That's quite a chunk to carry around ... maybe with a wheelbarrow ?
Thanks for the info ... I should have done my homework before asking.

Cheers!
JP