Sigma 85mm f1.4 DG HSM Art lens for Nikon

The SIGMA 85mm F1.4 is the perfect focal length for portrait photography and is the prime lens of choice for many professional portrait and wedding photographers as well as film-makers.

Designed to operate with ultra-high resolution DSLRs, its exceptional optical quality provides ultra-sharp in-focus results right across the frame, and the lens is also well known for its pleasing out-of-focus rendering when shooting with a shallow depth-of-field.

As well as portraits, the lens is often used for landscape photography owing to its razor-sharp optics.

• Aperture Range: f/1.4 to 16
• Two Low Dispersion Elements
• One Aspherical Element
• Super Multi-Layer Coating
• Hyper Sonic AF Motor, Manual Override
• Rounded 9-Blade Diaphragm
• TSC Material, Brass Bayonet Mount
• Compatible with Sigma USB Dock

The 85mm has a very wide aperture of F1.4, providing fast shutter speeds in lower light conditions and a very shallow depth-of-field for blurry backgrounds.

The lens has an advanced optical design with two SLD elements and one aspherical element, which help ensure a clear image throughout the plane free of chromatic aberration, vignetting and distortion.

Rich colours

As is true of all SIGMA Global Vision lenses, the 85mm F1.4 produces images with vivid and true-to-life colours straight out of camera. This is partly thanks to the exceptional control of flare, which keeps image saturation high.

High-performance optics

The 85mm F1.4 DG HSM | Art for DSLRs delivers remarkable optical quality that makes it one of the most popular portraits lenses on the market. It renders detail beautifully right into the corners even wide open at F1.4.

The lens has an advanced optical design made up of 14 elements in 12 groups, including 1 aspherical element and 2 SLD elements. This ensures razor-sharp results with very minimal chromatic aberration, flare, distortion and vignetting.

An advanced Super Multi-Layer Coating helps to reduce flare and ghosting when working in bright direct sunlight, creating high-contrast images with rich colours and strong blacks.

High-precision construction

The superb build quality of the 85mm 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 lens’ outer barrel is made of a polycarbonate called Thermally Stable Composite (TSC), which is not only strong and light, but has a similar thermal expansion rate to aluminium. This ensures that the interior aluminium parts and the exterior TSC parts behave in the same way as temperatures change.

The focus ring is rubberised for easier operation, and focusing is internal, meaning the lens never changes length.

To reduce flare and ghosting in bright sunlight, 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.