Sigma 24mm f2 DG DN I Contemporary for Sony E

Adding to Sigma’s I series is the Sigma 24mm f2 DG DN I Contemporary lens. Designed for full-frame bodies, the 24mm offers a wide focal range that is complemented by a fast and bright maximum f2 aperture. Combining this with an advanced optical pathway, this lens excels in low light situations and is ideal for street, night sky and travel photography. Its compact and high-quality build will seamlessly flow with the premium design of your camera.

Sigma 24mm f2 DG DN I Contemporary Key Features:

• Compact, lightweight and highly durable construction
• Well-balanced and designed for use with mirrorless cameras
• Premium optical structure results in exceptional image quality
• Wide-angle prime focal range is ideal for landscape & street photography
• The optical path is made up of 11 lens groups comprising 13 elements
• Enhanced quality is ensured with 1 FLD, 2 SLD and 2 aspherical lenses
• A wide, bright and fast maximum f2 aperture excels in low light
• The maximum f2 aperture offers enhanced control of depth of field
• Fast and quiet AF is achieved using an advanced stepping motor
• Super Multi-Layer Coating suppresses unwanted flare and ghosting

Expanded Sigma 24mm f2 DG DN I Contemporary Key Features:

Lens Construction

As a Sigma Contemporary lens, this lens is able to produce an extremely high-quality image with edge to edge sharpness, all thanks to its advanced and complex optical structure. The optical pathway is made up of 13 premium glass elements that have been arranged into 11 groups. Within this arrangement, Sigma has used two SLD glass elements and one FLD glass element that helps to reduce and correct axial chromatic aberration, an issue that often occurs with lenses with wide maximum apertures. Additionally, the lens features two high-precision glass-moulded aspherical elements that not only significantly reduce a range of unwanted aberrations but using Sigma’s advanced engineering, they’ve been able to achieve this result with only two lenses and thus, reduces the size and weight of the lens.

Auto Focus Performance

This wide-angle prime lens is suitable for a range of applications and something that helps this is its autofocusing performance. The AF system used offers quiet and impressively fast focus acquisition thanks to a powerful stepping motor, and this allows you to capture every detail within the wide 24mm scene. Of course, this can be paired with your camera’s high-speed autofocus system for exceptional performance. However, should you want, you can make use of the focus mode switch and toggle to manual focus, or make use of the DMF support.

Sigma Build-Quality

Something that Sigma never seems to fail at is creating physically pleasing and user-friendly lens designs. The Sigma 24mm f2 DG DN I Contemporary comes as part of Sigma’s exception I lens series that offers a full-metal construction. Using precision-cut aluminium, the lens barrel has a sleek, stylish and premium feel that is often seen on high-end pro-lenses. Adding to the innate quality of these lenses, Sigma has use metal components inside the lens, too. This results in added robustness and overall durability of the lens, as well as added that essential tactile quality that makes using Sigma lenses enjoyable to use.

What’s in the box?

• 1 x Sigma 24mm f2 DG DN I Contemporary
• 1 x Magnetic Lens Cap
• 1 x Front Lens Cap
• 1 x Rear Lens Cap
• 1 x Petal-type Lens Hood

FAQs:

Is this lens good for astrophotography?

This lens has been specifically designed to excel with night sky photography. This is thanks to its advanced array of premium optical lenses that suppress sagittal coma flare, giving the lens a high degree of rendering power.

Is this lens lightweight?

This lens weighs in at just 365g and it’s that low weight and overall compact form factor that makes this lens perfect for use on mirrorless cameras that are also slim in comparison to DSLR cameras.

What’s the benefit of a petal-type lens hood?

Petal-type hoods have a unique design that is shorter than standard hoods and features curved notches that are specifically designed to block out light while maximising the full scene offered by the wide-angle lens and your camera sensor.