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Digital Camera World
Paul Burrows

Sigma's weird camera designs over the years – from familiar forms to "Beautiful Foolishness"

Sigma camera designs over the years.

At the recent launch in Japan of the now much-discussed Sigma BF, the attending journalists were also taken on a tour of the factory where it’s made. This facility is located in Aizu, in the Fukushima prefecture, about 190 miles north of Tokyo.

On display in a showroom at the Aizu factory are the many milestone products in the history of Sigma since it was founded in 1961. Obviously many of these are lenses, but there’s also a surprising number of cameras.

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