Sigma Corporation
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Japanese photography equipment manufacturer
Key facts
- Native name
- 株式会社シグマ
- Company type
- Private KK
- Industry
- Electronics
- Founded
- Setagaya, Japan (September 1961 ; 64 years ago ( 1961-09 ) )
- Founder
- Michihiro Yamaki
- Headquarters
- Asao-ku , Kawasaki, Kanagawa 215-8530, Japan
- Key people
- Kazuto Yamaki, ( CEO )
- Products
- Camera lenses Digital cameras Optical equipment
- Number of employees
- 1,827
- Subsidiaries
- Foveon
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Japan
- Headquarters
- Kawasaki
- Industry
- electronics industry
- Legal form
- kabushiki gaisha
- Official website
- www.sigmaphoto.com
- Image
- Sigma 35mm F1.4 DG HSM 06.jpg
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- Sigma Corporation
- topic's main category
- Category:Sigma Corporation
- inception
- 1961-09-09
- Commons gallery
- Sigma Corporation
- location of formation
- Setagaya
- product or material produced
- photo equipment
- social media followers
- 16300
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Encyclopedic overview
Kazuto Yamaki (CEO of Sigma) on 25 September 2018 at photokina in Cologne
Sigma Corporation (株式会社シグマ, Kabushiki-gaisha Shiguma) is a Japanese company, manufacturing cameras, lenses, flashes and other photographic accessories. All Sigma products are produced in the company's own Aizu factory in Bandai, Fukushima, Japan. Although Sigma produces several camera models, the company is best known for producing high-quality lenses and other accessories that are compatible with the cameras produced by other companies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sigma Corporation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.