{"id":5140,"date":"2012-01-10T14:52:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T04:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=5140"},"modified":"2012-01-10T15:02:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T05:02:02","slug":"micro-four-thirds-cameras-gets-a-couple-of-new-sigma-lenses-and-a-few-panasonic-converter-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=5140","title":{"rendered":"Micro Four Thirds cameras gets a couple of new Sigma lenses and a few Panasonic converter lenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Panasonic announced several new converter lenses for their 14mm f\/2.8 and X 14-42mm lenses:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><strong>DMW-GWC1 Wide Conversion Lens<\/strong> &#8211; converts 14mm to 11mm for use on 14mm f\/2.5 and the LUMIX G X VARIO PZ 14-42mm<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong>DMW-GTC1 Tele Conversion Lens<\/strong> &#8211; 2x zoom &#8211; converts 42mm to 84mm for use on the LUMIX G X VARIO PZ 14-42mm<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong>DMW-GMC1 Macro Conversion Lens<\/strong> &#8211; for use on 14mm f\/2.5 and the LUMIX G X VARIO PZ 14-42mm<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><strong>DMW-GFC1 Fisheye Conversion Lens<\/strong> &#8211; for use on 14mm f\/2.5 and the LUMIX G X VARIO PZ 14-42mm<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Sigma have announced two new lenses for Micro Four Thirds and Sony NEX mirrorless systems:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sigma 19mm f\/2.8 EX DN<\/strong> aspherical which will give 38mm FOV on MFT and 28.5mm FOV on NEX<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sigma 30mm f\/2.8 EX DN<\/strong> aspherical which will give 60mm FOV on MFT and 45mm FOV on NEX<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Neither of these are particularly wide aperture but presumably Sigma is targetting high optical image quality rather than pancake size or fast aperture.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure how these will go in a market of 17mm f\/2.8 pancake, 20mm f\/1.7 pancake, and 25mm f\/1.4 high image quality Micro Four Thirds lenses which are already available. Perhaps they are largely targetting the relatively weak Sony NEX lens line up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panasonic announced several new converter lenses for their 14mm f\/2.8 and X 14-42mm lenses: DMW-GWC1 Wide Conversion Lens &#8211; converts 14mm to 11mm for use on 14mm f\/2.5 and the LUMIX G X VARIO PZ 14-42mm DMW-GTC1 Tele Conversion Lens &#8211; 2x zoom &#8211; converts 42mm to 84mm for use on the LUMIX G X [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,3],"tags":[18,235,15,63,56],"class_list":["post-5140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lenses","category-photography","tag-four-thirds-micro","tag-nex","tag-panasonic","tag-sigma","tag-sony"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}