The Sigma BF shall be obtainable in black or silver completed for $1,999 and is anticipated to ship someday in April 2025. That pricing doesn’t embody a lens. The BF is appropriate with the L-Mount lens customary initially developed by Leica however now utilized by Panasonic and Sigma as properly. Sigma shall be updating its I Collection assortment of prime lenses with a brand new silver shade choice to match the BF.
The BF’s minimalist design is most obvious on the again of the digital camera. Subsequent to a 3.2-inch touchscreen show that doesn’t function any articulation are three contact controls that includes haptic suggestions so that they really feel such as you’re touching actual buttons. Above them are a dial for navigating menus with a further haptic button within the heart, and a smaller standing monitor display that reveals settings choices so the digital camera’s primary show doesn’t get overly cluttered with info. You’ll discover the shutter button on prime of the digital camera, subsequent to a few small microphone holes.
The streamlined user-interface on the BF surrounds the stay preview with shooting-related settings together with shutter pace, aperture, ISO, and EV compensation. Secondary settings are hidden in an optionally available menu, whereas digital camera administration features are buried in a system menu.
As is changing into extra widespread with digital cameras, Sigma has included 13 completely different shade modes with the BF, permitting photographers to attain a particular look in-camera with out the necessity for post-processing. These embody choices like customary and wealthy, in addition to extra artistic modes like forest inexperienced, sundown crimson, heat gold, cinema, and monochrome.
You gained’t discover a reminiscence card slot on the Sigma BF, however a USB-C port for charging and transferring recordsdata is included. Inside is a 230GB SSD which the corporate says is sufficient to retailer 14,000 JPEGs or 4,300 uncompressed RAW recordsdata. The digital camera may seize 6K video at as much as 29.97 frames per second, and might retailer as much as 2.5 hours of video at its highest high quality setting.
At full decision, the Sigma BF can seize photos at as much as eight frames per second and it depends on a hybrid autofocus system combining section and distinction detection. Its AF system additionally makes use of what the corporate describes as “cutting-edge algorithms” to detect and rapidly concentrate on particular topics together with folks, canines, and cats.