
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.