Sigma 35mm f1.4 DG HSM Art lens for Nikon

The versatile wide-standard focal length is very well-suited to a range of photographic applications, from portraits and weddings to street and travel photography.

The Sigma 35mm f1.4 DG HSM Art lens offers a very fast maximum aperture of F1.4, which allows for excellent low-light performance, shallow depth-of-field effects and beautiful bokeh.

• AF MF Switch
• 9 rounded blades
• Water and oil repellent
• Super multi-layer coating
• Internal focus
• HSM
• Full-frame lens
• Brass mount

The lens construction comprises 13 elements in 11 groups, including one FLD (F Low Dispersion) element and four SLD (Special Low Dispersion) elements, which help to minimise chromatic aberration and distortion.

Superb low-light performance

At F1.4, the lens is able to collect four times more light than an F2.8 optic, making it well-suited to low-light photography such as astro and other nightscapes. The lens can render exceptional star detail within short exposure times, and saggital coma flare is very minimal, meaning that stars remain as sharp, bright points of light even towards the corners of the frame.

High-performance optics

The 35mm F1.4 DG HSM | Art for DSLRs boasts outstanding optical quality, with excellent rendering of detail right into the corners even wide open at F1.4.

The lens has an advanced optical design made up of 13 elements in 11 groups, including 2 aspherical elements, 4 SLD elements and 1 FLD element. This ensures razor-sharp results with very minimal chromatic aberration, flare, distortion and vignetting.

Advanced Super Multi-Layer Coatings reduce flare and ghosting when working in bright direct sunlight, creating high-contrast images with rich colours and strong blacks.

Build and features

The superb build quality of the 35mm F1.4 DG HSM is exactly as you’d expect from an Art-line lens, both in its intuitive ergonomics and in the quality of craftsmanship.

The exterior barrel is made of a polycarbonate called Thermally Stable Composite (TSC). Not only is this very strong and light, but it has a similar thermal expansion rate to aluminium. This ensures that the interior aluminium parts and the exterior TSC parts behave uniformly as temperatures change.

The focus ring is rubberised for easier operation, and focusing is internal, meaning the lens never changes length. This makes it ideal for use on a gimbal as the centre of gravity remains fairly constant.

To reduce flare and ghosting in bright sun, and to help protect the front element from damage if dropped, the lens has a robust petal-type lens hood.

The durable brass mount is surrounded by a rubber seal to help keep out dust and moisture.

Made in Japan

All Sigma cameras and lenses are designed, manufactured and assembled at their sole factory at Aizu in Japan. This domestic production model is unusual in today’s industry, with most imaging companies opting to outsource to other countries to reduce costs. But SIGMA believes that keeping virtually all manufacturing, processing and assembly in Aizu is essential for creating innovative, carefully thought-out and impeccably constructed products that meet the high standards demanded by professional photographers and film-makers around the world.