{"id":17348,"date":"2017-06-22T07:40:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T11:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/blog\/?p=17348"},"modified":"2017-06-22T07:40:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T11:40:12","slug":"sigma-art-14mm-1599-and-24-70-os-1299-available-for-pre-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/sigma-art-14mm-1599-and-24-70-os-1299-available-for-pre-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigma Art 14mm ($1599) and 24-70 OS ($1299) Available for Pre-Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sigma has made two long-awaited lenses available for pre-order. <b>Both are expected to ship (in limited quantities) tomorrow.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>First up is the <a href=\"\/product\/06276\/Sigma-Art-14mm-f1.8-DG-HSM-for-Canon-price.html\">Sigma Art 14mm f\/1.8 DG HSM<\/a> for <a href=\"\/go\/BH-Photo-Video\/Art-14mm-f1.8-DG-HSM-for-Canon\/p=6276&#038;m=5\">$1599.00<\/a>: faster and more affordable than Canon&#8217;s own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/02961\/Canon-EF-14mm-f2.8L-II-USM-price.html\">EF 14mm f\/2.8L II USM (street price: $1989)<\/a>, this lens is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sigma-global.com\/en\/lenses\/cas\/product\/art\/a_14_18\/testshot\/\"><i>stellar<\/i> for astrophotography<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Next is the optically stabilized <a href=\"\/product\/06279\/Sigma-Art-24-70mm-f2.8-DG-OS-HSM-for-Canon-price.html\">Sigma Art 24-70mm f\/2.8 DG OS HSM<\/a> for <a href=\"\/go\/BH-Photo-Video\/Art-24-70mm-f2.8-DG-OS-HSM-for-Canon\/p=6279&#038;m=5\">$1299.00<\/a>, which competes head-to-head with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/03895\/Tamron-SP-24-70mm-f2.8-DI-VC-USD-for-Canon-price.html\">Tamron SP 24-70mm f\/2.8 DI VC USD (street price: $999 AR)<\/a>. The lens looks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigma-global.com\/en\/lenses\/cas\/product\/art\/a_24_70_28\/data\/\">decent in optical tests<\/a> and we&#8217;re eagerly awaiting the real reviews to see how it stacks up vs. the benchmark <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canonpricewatch.com\/product\/03850\/Canon-EF-24-70mm-f2.8L-II-USM-price.html\">Canon EF 24-70mm f\/2.8L II USM (street price: $1499)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pre-order the <a href=\"\/product\/06276\/Sigma-Art-14mm-f1.8-DG-HSM-for-Canon-price.html\">Sigma Art 14mm f\/1.8 DG HSM<\/a> for <a href=\"\/go\/BH-Photo-Video\/Art-14mm-f1.8-DG-HSM-for-Canon\/p=6276&#038;m=5\">$1599.00<\/a> at <a href=\"\/go\/BH-Photo-Video\/Art-14mm-f1.8-DG-HSM-for-Canon\/p=6276&#038;m=5\">B&#038;H<\/a>, <a href=\"\/go\/Adorama\/Art-14mm-f1.8-DG-HSM-for-Canon\/p=6276&#038;m=6\">Adorama<\/a>\n<li>Pre-order the <a href=\"\/product\/06279\/Sigma-Art-24-70mm-f2.8-DG-OS-HSM-for-Canon-price.html\">Sigma Art 24-70mm f\/2.8 DG OS HSM<\/a> for <a href=\"\/go\/BH-Photo-Video\/Art-24-70mm-f2.8-DG-OS-HSM-for-Canon\/p=6279&#038;m=5\">$1299.00<\/a> at <a href=\"\/go\/BH-Photo-Video\/Art-24-70mm-f2.8-DG-OS-HSM-for-Canon\/p=6279&#038;m=5\">B&#038;H<\/a>, <a href=\"\/go\/Adorama\/Art-24-70mm-f2.8-DG-OS-HSM-for-Canon\/p=6279&#038;m=6\">Adorama<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigma has made two long-awaited lenses available for pre-order. Both are expected to ship (in limited quantities) tomorrow. First up is the Sigma Art 14mm f\/1.8 DG HSM for $1599.00: faster and more affordable than Canon&#8217;s own EF 14mm f\/2.8L II USM (street price: $1989), this lens is stellar for astrophotography. Next is the optically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[874,875],"class_list":["post-17348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sigma-art-14mm-f1-8-dg-hsm-for-canon","tag-sigma-art-24-70mm-f2-8-dg-os-hsm-for-canon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17348"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17356,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17348\/revisions\/17356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpricewatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}