![]() ![]() ![]() It is weather sealed, feature rich, and handles well while maintaining a moderate size and weight. This is a lens that checks all the boxes. The 35DN has the honor of being the very first lens that I get to review on my new Sony Alpha 1 which I just reviewed last week. That “middle of the road” option that will almost certainly replace the compromised original FE version at retail is the new Sigma 35mm F1.4 DG DN ART lens, which we’ll call the 35DN for short in this review. It turns out that is in fact NOT the case, as Sigma saw room for a true replacement for the original 35mm F1.4 ART with a brand new lens purposefully designed for mirrorless. One would think that with three 35mm options available on Sony that Sigma would “rest on their laurels”. Two of those were actually 35mm lenses, including the massive and optically superior 35mm F1.2 DN ART (the first autofocusing F1.2 lens on Sony, which I reviewed here) and, more recently, the compact 35mm F2 DN from their iSeries which I reviewed here. But Sigma wasn’t done, as they have gone on to produce at least ten other new DN (their designation for mirrorless) lenses during the past two years. That was the very first lens to bear the ART name, and, while it has been beloved, its a bit “long in the tooth” at this point and was never designed with Sony mirrorless in mind. Part of that initial batch of lenses was the adapted FE version of the Sigma 35mm F1.4 DG ART. It more or less worked, but never as reliably as native lenses. ![]() They weren’t designed for the mirrorless flange distance (distance from optical path to the sensor), so they had more size and weight added to them to move the optical path forward and to make room for a built-in adapter to allow focus to work properly on Sony mirrorless. They started with a huge drop of “adopted” DSLR lenses that gave them a basic lineup built on their existing lenses, though those lenses were always somewhat compromised. It’s hard to believe that just a couple of years ago Sigma had no lenses for Sony full frame E-mount (FE). ![]()
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