Sigma 50mm f1.4 DG HSM Art lens for Nikon

The standard focal length of the Sigma 50mm f1.4 DG HSM Art lens renders images that closely match the perspective of the human eye - making this a true all-rounder that gives natural-looking results.

It’s suitable for a very wide range of photo and video applications, including portraits, weddings, street, landscapes and travel.  It’s also ideal for casual day-to-day shooting.

This full-frame standard prime is one of the best-respected ultra-wide-aperture 50mm lenses on the market.

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

The lens’s F1.4 aperture allows photographers to achieve a shallow depth-of-field and work hand-held in low light, and the background blur is smooth and attractive.

Rich and accurate colour rendition

As is true of all SIGMA Global Vision lenses, the 50mm 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 50mm 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 8 groups, including 1 aspherical element and 3 SLD elements. This ensures razor-sharp results with very minimal chromatic aberration, flare, distortion and vignetting.

An advanced Super Multi-Layer Coating on the surface of the elements 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 50mm 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 a consistent 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.