Kazuto Yamaki, CEO of Sigma, pictured at the 2018 CP+ show in Yokohama, Japan. – DPReview
DPReview Interviewed Mr. Yamaki CEO of Sigma at CP+ 2018 and I have summarized the key points below.
- The MC-11 is a translator so it’s like translating Japanese to English things are lost
- Sigma’s new lenses speak English so they communicate better
- Might release a new USB dock for Sony lenses in the future
- Wide zooms can be made equivalent to primes
- The 14-24mm f/2.8 is optically equal to the 14mm f/1.8
- 24-70mm lenses are harder to design
- Sigma got good at wide angle zooms because an employee was into mountain climbing.
- Sigma would rather design optically excellent lenses than small lenses.
- The 14mm, 20mm, and 24mm all could have been smaller if designed for the ground up for Sony
- Beyond 35mm designing for E-mount doesn’t save much size.
- The Sony 12-24mm uses distortion correction in body to keep it’s size down, but Sigma couldn’t design a lens that small for DSLR that performs that well.
- Sigma used to be skeptical about distortion correction in body, but it’s gotten very good.
- Sigma plans to release another APS-C lens for Sony around Photokina 2018.
- Sigma can covert your Canon EF mount Sigma glass to Sony-E mount for a charge and convert it back again if you wish.
- Sigma is working on offering better professional support outside Japan.
- Yamaki finds the Sony 12-24 f/4, Sony 16-35mm f/2.8, Canon 35mm f/1.4 II, and Tamron 28-75mm to be impressive lenses.
- If The Tamron lives up to the hype it will be a benchmark lens for Sigma.
- Sigma would like to explore faster than f/2.8 zooms in the future.
- Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 ART coming in the not too distanct future
via DPReview
