What's the first thing that comes to mind when I say New York? Probably New York City, Times Square, Broadway, the lights, the magic. But the state of New York is actually very different. The state of New York has a lot of farmers. The state of New York is one of the backbones of the American society. Because without our farmers, we would be nowhere. They are some of the most essential workers we have in our nation. And today on Mystery Monday, we're going to talk about a ghost town. A ghost town in New York State. Now for many people, there are logical reasons as to why this town eventually was abandoned. But for locals that live around the ghost town, they won't set foot in the town at night. But before we go any further, you know what to do, hit that subscribe button and give us a like. If you want to support the channel, we have a Patreon listed down below. Welcome to Esoteric Atlanta. My name is Bryce, and today we're going to talk about Happy Valley, New York. The village of Happy Valley is just north of the city of Syracuse, New York. Happy Valley is a hamlet of the town of Frazier. Now Frazier was settled in the 1850s. It was for hops farmers. The hops farmers eventually became dairy farmers. The hamlet became known as Happy Valley because the main road in Frazier was Happy Valley Road, a road that still exists today. The cemetery in Happy Valley was established in 1866, and this cemetery still exists. It's still there. You can visit it. The school in Happy Valley was built in 1867. Now the foundation of the school is still there. However, the woodwork, the building itself burned down. So from the mid 1800s all the way to the early 1930s, Happy Valley functioned as a well-loved small little hamlet full of America's farmers. And then by the early 1930s, the town just disappeared. It became an actual ghost town. Now they say the town disappeared because of a plague, or a curse, or a serial killer. Now we have to talk about the park's services, because the town now is owned by the government as a national park. You see the logical explanation for the disappearance of Happy Valley had a lot to do with the Great Depression. In our last episode of Mystery Monday where we talked about Erkhammer, we talked about the town vanishing. And in the Great Depression, farmers were affected heavily by the crash of the stock market. Now the big difference between Erkhammer and Happy Valley is Happy Valley existed on this realm of reality. Erkhammer might be a parallel town, we don't know. But Happy Valley was really, it was here in this this universe, right? It was run and owned by farmers. These farmers lived there, they had a great life there. And then in the early 1930s, they disappeared, they left, they vanished. Now again the logical explanation for this happening is the National Parks Service. You see when the Great Depression happened, one of the ways to stimulate the economy was to create these national parks. And so a lot of the farmers that lived in and around Happy Valley sold their land basically to the government. They needed the money, they had to go start over again. Many people, for many people, for many Americans, for many people all over the world, the Great Depression changed everything. Now I'm sure selling their land to the government was not a happy time, even though it was necessary. And they had to have some money to go elsewhere and start over again. I'm sure that when these people established their farms in Happy Valley, they probably had ideas of passing the farm down to many generations. Farmers from my own experience love their land, they love their animals, they love what they do. So I can't imagine the energy of heartbreak is within the land that they had to take the money from the state in order to save their own prosperity. And again, this is the logical explanation. We do know now that the government still owns Happy Valley, it is still a nature preserve and a ghost town. But the residents don't buy it. Many of the residents believe that Happy Valley became deserted because of a plague, a plague of smallpox and malaria. However, this wasn't just an accidental plague. Many, many of the residents believe that a witch, a witch who lived in the outskirts of the town cursed the town.  It seems that there was a woman who lived in the outskirts of the town who had a bit of a relationship with a pretty prominent man in Happy Valley. Although this relationship was short lived, it didn't take long for this man to fall in love with another woman. And so the woman living on the outskirts of the town decided to perform witchcraft and curse the town. It wasn't long after the curse was placed on the town that the townspeople started to get sick. And over time, they eventually figured out what had happened, and they abandoned the town. Many locals say you can still sense the presence of this witch when you visit the outskirts of Happy Valley. Our next suspect, or legend, is the hook man. Now many communities have urban legends around a man that has a hook for an arm, but there might be some validity to this story in Happy Valley. You see, as I mentioned, the cemetery, which was built in 1866 in Happy Valley, housed a body of a Civil War veteran. This Civil War veteran had his arm amputated as a result from the war. They replaced the arm with a hook. This we know is true. There is a corpse of a Civil War veteran in the cemetery at Happy Valley that legitimately had a hook for an arm. Now it is stated that children were playing in the cemetery. I don't blame them. I grew up in a small town. Sometimes you got to go play in a cemetery because there's nothing else to do. Well, these children ended up breaking the headstone of this Civil War veteran. In my opinion, I don't think the children meant any harm by this. I think they were just being children. Well, they say that the spirit of this Civil War veteran started to attack the town. They said that you would hear him scratching his hook along the buildings and the houses where he would eventually murder the victims inside. If a serial killer ghost isn't going to force you to move away from your town, then I don't know what will. I would be terrified. I would definitely move. The next urban legend surrounding the ghost town of Happy Valley is probably the most sinister of all, and one that, sadly, probably has the most validity to it. We now understand that there is such thing as satanic ritual abuse. We know that in the United States alone, in present time, about 800,000 children go missing each year, never to be heard from again. Sadly, we know a lot of these children have met nefarious ends where they not only were trafficked, but were potentially used in religious sacrifices. I told you that the school was built in the year 1867, and unfortunately, all that remains of the school now is just the foundation. The school was burnt down. You see, there is a legend that many orphans who perhaps had been used ritualistically, well, the legend goes that their bodies were maybe put into the foundation of the school or in the chimney as a way to hide them. Now, 10 years ago, hearing that story, I would have thought it was crazy. Of course, back then, we had no idea what we know now. Now, no bodies or remains have been found around the school or in the chimney, but that still doesn't necessarily mean that there was a nefarious usage for the building. And I know for me that if I found out my small town was being used for this purpose, I would want to leave. You know you can't tell anyone because these are very, very powerful people who were doing this. So you just would want to leave. So it does seem like this town has a lot of interesting legends. Again, it could all just be simply a case of the great depression and the government coming in to rescue the people and purchase their land. Of course, as I said, that's the most logical explanation because it still is owned by the government to this day. But when I see videos of older locals, respectable locals telling you they won't set foot in the town at night, I tend to listen to them. They seem to know that there is something way more nefarious happening in this ghost town. And I put my trust in them. If I'm ever up in that area, I will definitely stay out of happy valley at night. All right, what do you think? Are you from that area of New York state? If so, I would love to hear your opinion. If you've had any crazy experiences or if there is another legend, that I am unaware of regarding happy valley, please leave it in the comments below. Does your town have a ghost town? If so, again, let me know in the comments below. And also, since this is Mystery Monday, what do you think? Do you think the town vanished because of the Great Depression and the purchase of land? Or do you think there is a more sinister reason why the residents abandoned their town? And once again, thank you to Josh McKay for doing our music and to Todd Roderick for helping me produce this video. I hope you guys have a wonderful day and I will talk to you soon. Bye.


I remind members of the Covid-related measures that are in place and that face coverings should be worn when moving around the chamber and across the Holyrood campus. The first item of business is general questions in order to get in as many people as possible. I would be grateful for short and succinct questions and answers to match. I call it question number one, Emma Roddick. Thank you, Presiding Officer. First of all, can I declare that I am a sitting councillor? To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider local government reform in relation to the redrawing of local authority areas in light of reported issues associated with new boundaries for the Highland Council area. Minister George Adam. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Boundaries Scotland recently conducted a review of world boundaries for Highland Council, as required under the islands act. All of the local authority areas with inhabited islands were reviewed. The proposal for Highland Council was not approved by the Scottish Plarmland. There are currently no plans to review boundaries for local authority areas. Emma Roddick. I thank the minister for his answer. Does he believe that the Highland Council area, given its size, can be described as local government, and would he see the benefits in an Inverness City Council, both for our fastest growing city and the rest of the highlands, which have very different interests? Minister. We currently have no plans to change the council area. I understand the geographic challenges for Highland Council. We are recognised when it was first created. Unfortunately, those challenges did not allow for a practical solution that would have enabled the area to be split up, and those challenges have not changed. Question number two has not launched. Question number three, Donald Cameron. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to reduce waiting times for colposcopy appointments. Cabinet Secretary, Humza Yousaf. When the cervical screening programmes that we started last year will be invested around £1 million to increase capacity in both sample-taking and colposcopy services, more recently and to coincide with the Scottish Government's national cervical screening awareness campaign, we have provided £660,000 to health boards who are experiencing longer waiting times for our colposcopy, which includes NHS Highlands, to help to reduce those waits. The NHS recovery plan, which is backed by over £1 billion of additional investment, sets out how the Scottish Government will increase NHS capacity by 10 per cent as quickly as possible. We have already invested more than £80 million to support health boards in achieving this. Donald Cameron. Can I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer? Constituent from Argyll and Bute recently contacted me describing her own experience in seeking such an appointment. Following the detection of abnormal cells during cervical screening, she received a letter from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, notifying her that not only would she be unable to get her colposcopy appointment within the eight-week limit, but she would instead have to wait up to 30 or 30 weeks. That was clearly highly distressing. Can the cabinet secretary explain what action can be taken to reduce waiting times, and would he be able to look into this specific case if I provide further details privately? On his last point, of course, I would be happy to look at the individual case if he does pass on the details. I note that, certainly in the summertime, there were claims that some patients were waiting up to 30 weeks for a colposcopy appointment. It is why we decided to invest additional money into some of those health boards who, where the waiting times were far longer than we would like them to be. That included the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, also included the NHS Ayrshire and Arran, NHS Highland, Lothian and NHS Tayside. I was looking at the most recent figures in terms of waiting times for colposcopy. If it is a routine appointment in terms of suspicion of cancer, if it is routine, then the waits nationally have gone down to 10 weeks in Scotland, which is still above the eight-week target that we have. However, I can see there is incredible variation across health boards, and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is still far too high than I would like it to be, so I would be happy to look at the individual case that Mr Cameron raises. Question 4, Collette Stevenson. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to encourage the consumption of locally sourced foods. On 20 August, we published a draft local food strategy that sets out the wealth of actions that we are taking to encourage local food consumption, including launching the Scotland Bring So Much to the Table campaign to drive increased sales and awareness of Scottish produce. We are also taking action to raise the profile of producer and farmers markets around Scotland and promoting access to local produce through butchers, fishmongers, bakers and farm shops through the Food and Drink Recovery Plan. That includes the Food for Life programme, supporting the provision of more locally sourced healthier food being served in schools. In 2021-22, we will target all 32 local authorities to £400,000 worth of funding. We are currently consulting on the draft strategy to ensure that the public and relevant organisations have the chance to shape further government action to encourage local food. I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. Could she outline how lowland deer managers can get a voice in on-going discussions and how can we ensure that more local produce is available in public sector catering such as schools and hospital canteens? First of all, I encourage lowland deer managers and anyone who is interested in that, which is going to be wide-ranging, to make sure that they share their views through the local food consultation. That is open until 26 November for responses, because there is a chance there to shape further government action to encourage local food. We remain absolutely committed to increasing the local sourcing of food and drink in the public sector. Just recently, Glasgow City Council became the 17th local authority to achieve food for life status in their primary schools. Our support for that programme continues, and we are currently in discussions with the soil association around options for expanding that into other settings in the public sector. I recently met the Scottish Tenant Farmers Association and they emphasised the health benefits and sustainability of locally sourced, high-quality meat and dairy products that they produce. What is the Scottish Government doing to support a culture change when it comes to information regarding locally sourced food, including the health and environmental benefits? The Scottish Government absolutely agrees that locally sourced food has so many benefits, and that is why, in addition to the actions that we have set out in the local food strategy, we also recently introduced the Good Food Nation Bill to the Scottish Parliament, which will place duties on Scottish ministers and other public authorities to produce plans of their policies in relation to food and to set out what they are going to do to ensure that those plans are made real. We are also currently undertaking scoping work on a single marketing brand for all Scottish food and drink produce, sustainably Scottish, which would be available to all Scottish-based producers, manufacturers and suppliers who can satisfy stringent criteria on provenance and low-carbon operations. That will allow many Scottish businesses with a strong story to tell about sustainability to really capitalise on that demand. Public procurement is one of the main levers that the Government has here to ensure that we have to be sport our farmers and our local food producers, but they are continually telling us that red tape is preventing them from accessing the central excel contract. That has been the case for years. I know that I have spoken about that in the chamber many times, so what is the Government doing to ensure that farmers have access to the excel contract? The member is absolutely right, and I know that it is an issue that he has raised a number of times within the chamber, but that is what I would say and where our local food strategy and the consultation that we have out on that is so important, because there are three overarching pillars within that, about how we better connect people with food, and about connecting local producers with buyers, but it is also about how we can better harness the buying power that we have within the public sector for procurement as well. Again, I encourage Mr Whittle and other members across the chamber to out both themselves and encourage others to respond to this consultation, because we know that that is an issue that we want to tackle and really get to grips with. To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has for infrastructure investment in the Coatbridge and Chryston constituency. The Coatbridge and Chryston constituency will benefit from Scottish Government-supported national infrastructure programmes, such as the £3.4 billion investment in affordable housing, £600 million in superfast broadband and over £550 million in active travel. Additionally, with NHS Lanarkshire, we have plans to build a new hospital that will replace the existing university hospital munklins, as well as a new national treatment centre project, as it is at the early stage of planning. We are also investing over £500 million in the Glasgow City region deal in which North Lanarkshire is a partner. Fulton MacGregor. I thank the minister for that response. He will be aware of the Gatcosh business interchange in my constituency, which has been developed by Scottish Enterprise and already includes the very impressive police crime campus. He may also be aware that the site was shot last year as one of the proposed sites for the new munklins hospital that he described. The consultation around a new hospital was lengthy and thorough, and, ultimately, an alternative site was chosen in the air-drate. I very much welcome the new hospital, as it will greatly benefit my constituency. However, this process inevitably has stalled further investment in the site in Gatcosh, which is strategically well placed in crying out for future infrastructure development. I have had some helpful discussions with Scottish Enterprise, and I know that they are commissioning work around the site. Would the minister be open to a meeting with Scottish Enterprise and myself to consider what more can be done to bring about development at the site that will benefit Co-bridge and Crescent and, indeed, the wider area? Minister Ivan McKee. Yes, I know the site, and I would be happy to meet Fulton MacGregor and Scottish Enterprise, and you will be aware of that through our investment in the Glasgow City region deal. We have unlocked the development potential at Gatcosh Business Park. In addition, through our vacant and earlick land fund awards to North Lanarkshire Council, we have supported their local property development and regeneration company using assets limited to undertake over nine acres of site preparation works for new business and industrial use. The first 18,000 square foot unit is now completed. That investment will address market failure in the site, attract new businesses to the area and create associated local employment opportunities. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to tackle fly tipping in light of reports that there have been just three prosecutions from 32 reported cases of fly tipping in the 2019-20 financial year. I thank the member for the question, because it gives me the opportunity to restate that fly tipping is a criminal offence and that it has no place in Scotland. We take the matter very seriously and are developing a new litter and fly tipping strategy, which will be ready for consultation by the end of this year and will be published in early 2022. Enforcement, which the member raises, is one of the key themes of this strategy. We will be reviewing current processes and legislation, including where they may need to be strengthened or new legislation required. I absolutely welcome views and encourage participation in the upcoming consultation. I thank the minister for her positive response. I think that she will appreciate the frustration that is felt in local government, that a huge amount of time and effort goes into preparing cases against people who are caught fly tipping. Those cases are sent to the Procurator Fiscal Service, and only a tiny percentage of those cases are taken forward for action. That causes frustration. The minister might know that I am currently working on a member's bill consultation on how we might strengthen the law in this area. Will she agree to meet me to discuss how we might work together to try to resolve that problem? Yes, I understand the frustrations and the frustrations of local authorities, of the police, of the Procurator Fiscal Service and, of course, of those people who are unfortunate enough to have to deal with it on their land. I live in a rural area, and I personally have had experiences of it, so I know how frustrating it is. I am aware of the bill that the member is developing. I have not seen the content of it yet, but I would be glad to meet him to discuss it. Christine Grahame Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. Fly tipping goes way beyond, of course, the ubiquitous street matters. Minister, I understand that it is the case that serious organised crime is involved in commercial fly tipping. Will that be factored into a consultation? Organised crime and criminal activity is a key part of one of the many challenges that we face as regards litter and fly tipping. I mentioned in my answer to the previous question that we are engaging with Police Scotland and the Procurator Fiscal Service and, crucially, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency to look at those very issues. To ask the Scottish Government what consultation is being undertaken with communities regarding next-year summer timetable for ferry routes in the CalMac network. Minister Grahame Day Presiding Officer, CalMac is currently consulting with local stakeholders regarding the summer 22 timetable. As a result of the consultation, it will be considered before any decisions are taken. Community abusers are crucial to this process. I would encourage stakeholders to engage constructively with CalMac and for CalMac to reflect carefully on any implementable ask coming out of that process. Alasdair Allan I thank the minister for that very helpful reply. The minister will be aware of concerning my constituency over proposed changes, which would result in an overall reduction in the number of sailings from Luchmadi and Tarbot. Can the minister comment on this question and also on why the consultation period around that issue was apparently so short? Minister Grahame Day Presiding Officer, increasing demand on the route has led to CalMac deploying the messaging decks more frequently, and that has led to challenges with loading and offloading within the current timetable. Any delays to sailings have knock-on effects, often requiring later sailings to be cancelled to ensure crews get the required hours of rest. This option is therefore being deployed—and developed rather—to allow the messaging decks to be fully deployed with some amendments to timetables, resulting in the removal of the shoulder off-peak season and having a consistent timetable for the whole summer period. However, if the community do not want this, the summer 2021 timetable will remain in place, although the MES deck will not be in operation in order to avoid delays in cancellations. CalMac are continuing to engage on the proposals with the council, who are the agreed ferry consultation group for Western Isle services, and what Scotland officials are raising closely with CalMac on those matters. I hope that that offers the member some reassurance. The minister will be aware that one of the services being cut is on a Saturday, which is traditionally a changeover day for the tourism business, meaning that that changeover cannot take place. If the issue is crewing, will he allow CalMac to employ further crew so that the ferry can run more often, allowing changeover to happen? Those are options that are being considered. We are aware that CalMac continues to engage along with the local council on those matters. I encourage the local council to also involve the local transport forum and the discussions to see whether we can arrive at a satisfied conclusion. To ask the Scottish Government how it will support Argyll and Bute to benefit from the transition to net zero. The climate crisis is the greatest long-term challenge that we face, and the risks of anaction are huge. There are also opportunities, and the Scottish Government provides a range of support to ensure that communities and businesses in Argyll and Bute and across Scotland benefit from a just transition to net zero. To give just two examples of that work, Argyll and The Isle's Coast and Countryside Trust have received £52,000 through the climate challenge fund, and we have committed up to £25 million to drive sustainable and inclusive economic growth through Argyll and Bute rural growth deal over 10 years. Combined with investment from partners, the deal will be worth at least £78 million. I thank the minister for that answer. Argyll and Bute is central to Scotland's journey to net zero, with onshore and offshore wind and renewable supply chain businesses and marine research at SAMS, as well as being home to Scotland's Celtic rainforests. How will the Scottish Government listen to communities and balance their needs with those of the wider country? The member touches on a really important point about the balance. Just transition is at the heart of our climate action. The transition must be one that delivers on our economic and social, as well as our climate goals. It will only work if it is shaped by communities, businesses and workers alike. We have committed to producing regional just transition plans, and we are identifying where we think they will be best placed act as a facilitator for planning processes, bringing parties together and ensuring that voices are heard. Our draft MPF4 was laid before Parliament yesterday, and we will be carrying an extensive consultation and engagement on that. Just last week, at COP26, on a visit to RSPB with the Glasgow Botanic Gardens and its countries around the world committed to ending deforestation, I was really pleased to make clear our commitment to continue creating up to 80 per cent of the UK's woodland and, crucially, to support and expand our precious rainforests in the west of Scotland.


Types of volcanic eruptions. Several types of volcanic eruptions during which lava, tetrahash, alopea-like, volcanic bombs and volcanic blocks and assorted gases are expelled from a volcanic vent or fissures have been distinguished by volcanologists. These are often named after famous volcanoes where that type of behavior has been observed. Some volcanoes may exhibit only one characteristic type of eruption during a period of activity, while others may display an entire sequence of types all in one eruptive series. There are three different types of eruptions. The most well-observed are magmatic eruptions, which involve the decompression of gas within magma that propels it forward. The three other magmatic eruptions are another type of volcanic eruption, driven by the compression of gas within magma, the direct opposite of the process-powering magmatic activity. The third eruptive type is the phreatic eruption, which is driven by the superheating of steam via contact with magma. These eruptive types often exhibit no magmatic release. Instead causing the granulation of existing rock. Within these wide-defining eruptive types are several subtypes. The weakest are Hawaiian and Submarine, then Strombland, followed by Volcanian and Certician. The stronger eruptive types are Pylite eruptions, followed by Plinian eruptions. The strongest eruptions are called Ultraplinian. Glacial and phreatic eruptions are defined by their eruptive mechanism, and vary in strength. An important measure of eruptive strength is volcanic explosivity index, the iron order of magnitude scale, ranging from 0 to 8 that often correlates to eruptive types.


What's up guys and guys? Lane here with Layton Sports Cards. We're ripping 2023 Bowman Chrome Update Series Baseball Hobby Jumbo 8 box mixer number 5. Give me one second just to get the teams. Sorry about that. The teams are updating real quick on Shopify. My apologies. Here we go. Yep. Changed the camera. I got you. All right. Here we go, y'all. Alberto O. Astros Blue Jays. Charles A. Reds Twins. Darren G. Royles. Ed B. Phillies White Sox. Jeffrey H. Yankees. Jeffrey H. Jeffrey Hand Yankees. Jeffrey H. A. Z. Cubs. Jerry B. Metz. Joseph H. Rockies. Kyle I. Marlins. Matthew O. Mariners. Matthew G. Nationals. Michael K. Rays. Mike C. Brewers. Peter M. Diamondbacks Cardinals. Peter R. Rangers. Ray G. Braves. Scott V. Padres. Scott W. Tigers. Shinichiro I. With The Guardians. Stefan H. Pirates. Steven U. Orioles. Tomoyuki K. Angels. Vaughn B. Giants. Wayming H. A. Athletics. And William E. With The Dodgers. Those are your teams, y'all. No, I got you. I appreciate it, Cameron. 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All of those like shows and movies used to be so much better than what we get now. That's what I'm saying. We don't get anything like that. Magenta, purple, lava lamp, rich hill. Jordan Walker on the prism. Devers and James Paxton. We don't get anything. There hasn't been a comedy that's like really good recently. I feel like Casey Schmidt for the Giants. Blue Raywave Auto out of 150. There you go, San Fran. Casey Schmidt to 150. Austin Hayes. Michael Harris and Drew Maggie. Yoshida on the prism. Volpe and Nolan Jones. Hey, there you go, Jason. Let's go. There we go. Nice, Jason. Congrats. He's good. Casey Schmidt is good. Gunner Titans. Josh Young. Jazz Chisholm and Matt Moore. I mean, that's fair. That makes sense. Zach Weiss prism. It's a good chase to have. Yoshida and the Grom. The funniest part was I believed it too yesterday and then I was like, wait, they don't spell them the same. Matt Swarmer. Look at that lead kick. Lead kick. Dude, that was my lead kick back then. He said that literally Matt yesterday was like Dylan had the same lead kick. I swear, dude, it was really high. That's funny. Acuna, Jayrod, and Maldives. Literally, Matt was like, that looks like Dylan. I think I have a picture of something. We were like for throwback Thursday or something. We got to post a video of you pitching. Red Sox. Let's go Sox. Diamond Dominant, Masataka Yoshida. There we go, Boston. We will mag that one for you. Pasha, Eric Cole, and Thaddeus Ward. I'll have to look that one up, Cam. Yeah, that one is also Grant Anderson. Cameron, it's just not as high as that one. But yeah, Grant Anderson's is also insane. He's in this product. So you'll see. Okay, but Pete Alonzo, Luisa Reyes, Paul Goldschmidt, and David Peralta. But yeah, Grant Anderson also has a very high leg kick. Kibriane Hayes, Patrick Bailey, Grayson Rodriguez, and Rich Hill. Ben Joyce for the angels on the Aqua Wave Auto. There we go. There we go, angels. Noice Joyce. Noice Joyce. Rejoice, it's Ben Joyce. Wander, Freddie Freeman, and Sean Bouchard, Stuart Fairchild, Corbin Carroll, and Brayden Schumich. Vladdy, Spencer Strider, Mike Trout, and Adam Duvall. Got a lava lamp coming. Jake Alou on the Aqua Blue lava lamp to 175. Jake Alou for Washington. Jake Oderizzi on the prism. Aaron Judge and Zack Neto. Here we go, y'all. Last jumbo box of this break. That sounds fire, Cameron. Cameron, you're making it or you're ordering it? I might be going to get one after this now that you said that. I've stopped by Drizzy Mike's. Yes, let's go, Drizzy Mike's. One left, y'all. One to go in the next break. Sean Murphy, Juan Soto, and Michael Harris. Julio Rodriguez, Matthew Baton, Sandy, and Francisco Alvarez. Who is it? I think it was the Blue Jays. Of course, now it is. Yeah, the Blue Jays. Of course. I said something. Someone must have heard you say that. I said something, and now they'll ask you. Fernando Tatis Titans, Justin Steele, Corbin Carroll, Jose Barrero. Of course, that's how that works. Michael Fulmer on the prism. Y'all, one left, and then as all we have left is Breakers Delight. Five total spots left for the day in Breakers Delight. Six spots left for the day. Alec Burleson for the Cardinals. Aqua Wave out of 199. There you go, Cardinals. Kershaw, Devers, and Kodai Senga. Purple coming up. Jordan Lyles, Purple out of 250. James McCann on the prism. Brett Beatty and Miguel Vargas. Let's find a redemption. Let's hit a redemption, y'all. Aaron Judge Titans. Randy on the refractor. Tatis and Garver. Do the Browns even want him back at this point? It sucks as he was looking really good in the games. Francisco Alvarez. Francisco Alvarez. Yeah, exactly, Steve. Profar. Colas. I don't disagree. You see what they did for Inception also? With their, like, important bases where it's, like, first stolen base, they got the base and they turned that into a patch auto. Carlos Radone for the Yankees on the blue out of 150. Carlos Radone, Mookie Betts, Vladdy, and Shea Langaliers. Also with the taco fractors, there was too much uncertainty and, like, mystery behind them until literally the World Series. Jordan Walker. Until the last second. Andrew Nardi. Yeah, that's, that was the mistake with the taco fractors. I did not, Cameron. I did not have two grand to buy that. Jay Rock, Marcus Simeon, Brett Beatty and Luis Guillermas. It's a dope card, though. That tops now, dude. Lava lamp. There you go, Cameron. There's your guy. Araldis Chapman, Magenta Purple, Lava lamp. Going to KC. Cameron's favorite player. William Contreras. Adley Rushman. Leota Tavares. No, like, you could figure it out, but they, like, tried to keep it a mystery. That's where we're going today. Got it, Don Ibe. The one-of-one Milan. The one-of-one or just one of them? Because I don't think it's, I didn't think the triple was a one-of-one, but I could have been mistaken. Out of 10, gotcha. I didn't think it was one-of-one. This is all stuff that has to be sleeping top. Gotcha. Mm-mm, still the blue jays. Enjoy, Cameron. We will probably still be here when you get back. We will most likely be here. We might not finish that late. No, I don't think so. I don't know how the breakers the light are, though. I don't know how. 15-ish? 15 to 20? That's what it is. They flop. I can flop for this. We only have one more of these after this. Yeah, which is 45 minutes. We got 25 more minutes here of this one. I didn't think they were, are they still going? 230, 315. Well, I know finishing like at four. So, like, still give Sam an hour to get ready. Plus, his breaks are already filling for the day. It's in T to start. He'll be okay in the beginning. Will Smith. Will Smith. Hey, we appreciate it, Jason. We appreciate that. This, they redid this product this year. Last year, it was not that amazing. This year, it's really good. Gio Arcella. Jordan Walker. Alex Bregman. Vladdy on the Titan. They redid the product this year. It's amazing. Question marks. The Volpe has a $250,000 bounty. So that's probably going to be the most expensive one. James Caprillion. Jordan Walker. Luisa Reyes. Edward Julianne. There we go. Edward Julianne for the twins. Blue Brian Rockio for the Guardians. Brian Rockio for the Guardians. Lubav. Jacob DeGram. Seth Lugo, Refractor. Adley. Second half of that box. Sonny Gray. $150,000. Yeah, for the Volpe. $250,000 is the bounty for the Volpe. Yep. I thought it was $150,000. No. $250,000. Really? I thought it was $250,000. It might be $150,000. I thought it was $250,000. I could be wrong. I thought it was $250,000. It might be $150,000. It's six figures, though. And then the Jordan Walker was $100,000. $150,000. Still, that's... So the Volpe's $150,000. The Jordan Walker is $100,000. Mitch Handinger. I thought it was $250,000. Still. Still, that's a lot. Nolan Aronato. Peter Lanzo. Yeah, we just checked. It is $150,000. Nolan Gorman. You might be able to find someone to pay more than $150,000 for that card outside of the bounty. I don't know that $150,000 is actually enough for that card. Cody Bradford. Max Scherzer. Oscar Colas. Jonah Hyme. Yeah, if they actually sell for those, the Yoshida will definitely be right around $70,000. Juan Fen. I don't disagree there. Ryan Feltner on the purple color match for the Rockies out of $250,000. There you go, Rockies. Anthony Volpe. Nolan Jones on the prism. Nolan Jones' prism. Almes Diaz. And I don't do it for that first box of hobby for this break. Three more to go here in this one. Three more to go in break number five. Then we just have one more mixer and then two cases of delight. One more mixer and two cases of delight to go for the day. Yeah, even all the so-called bad rookies are going to sell for a lot. Question mark. I think the so-called bad rookies will sell for between $2,500 to $3,000 as like a floor. Yeah. If you pull a debut patch, there is no one that you could be like, dang, I'm mad, I got this.  What's up, Mark? What's up, Mark? Welcome back, man. Yandy. So may the shorts be with you. Waka, waka. Waka, waka. Waka, waka. You're done. Jordan Walker. Yuri Perez. May the shorts be with you. Oswaldo Cabrera. Honestly, we've been pulling him probably the most of anyone today. Oswaldo, yeah. Jason Hayward. Jose Ciri. Juan Soto. Riley Green. Laudice Garriel. Cooper Hummel. Nolan Jones on the magenta out of $3.99. Nolan Jones. Bobby Whit. Andrew Monasterio. Matthew Baton. Grayson Rodriguez. I think he's going to win a Cy Young at some point. Grayrod is really good. Ohtani. There we go. Matt McClain on the refractor. Matt McClain. Adley. Joey Vado. James McCann. Corbin Carroll on the prison. Get him out of here. Come on. We're going to have to give him a yellow card for that one, I think. It's a yellow on Jason, man. That's a yellow on Jason. We're going to pull Sam. That's a yellow. Come on. Jason, that's a yellow card. One more and you're out of here. One more. Boba Shet. Omar. Mitch Hannigar or Mitch Garver. Wow. Mitch Garver for the Rangers. Blue, green on the lava lamp. Mitch Garver. That'll be numbered out of 125 and Riley Green. Rugnad O'Dore on the prison. Bobby Whit. Logan Allen. Aaron Judge. That'll do it for box two. Here we go, y'all. Box three. No one screws with Marky Mark. I was calling it DJ Maddy Matt. The funniest yesterday. So the mic is there and there in the other room. He put the speaker here. So the whole day, not a single person heard the music. It's like, literally we're on the last break and we're like, can anyone hear the music? Because there was a profanity that came up and we're like, oh, we're really sorry about that. Can anyone even hear this? And they were like, no, we didn't know you were playing music at all today. So he had in. Yeah, it wasn't hitting either mic. It was so funny. It was so funny. He's a bot. I got you, Mark. Come on. I got you. What's up, Mitchell? What's up, Mitchell? How are we doing, man? I thought these were the same. One is to 175. One is Aqua Blue and one is Blue Green. See, that's tough to tell right there. Yeah. Yeah, Blue Green and Aqua Blue. One is 125 and one is 175. At first I thought I was tripping. No, they are different. They are indeed different. What's up, Mark? You having a good day, man? Mitchell, my day is amazing. It's released. Can't ask for much more than released it. First time back on YouTube in literal months. I guess I'm going to break like once a quarter for y'all on YouTube. Other than that, you'll find me over on Fanatics or just chain to my desk building Almanacs. One or the other? One of the two. Aren't we all, Mark? Aren't we all? It's the name of the game. Dolis Garcia. Jared Kelnick. Jared Kelnick. Fernando Tates. Titans, Vladdy. Titans, Vladdy. Gunner on the refractor. Logan Allen on the prism. Jordan Walker. Shoah. Juan Yepes. Juan Yepes for the Cardinal. Adley. Action stars. Peter Lonzo on the Titans. Josh Wynkowski refractor auto for the Red Sox. There you go, Sox. Sox. Grayson Rodriguez refractor. James McCann. Max Scherzer. Yip, yip, yipes. Ozzy Albies. Hunter Brown. Bryce Miller on the magenta. Bryce Miller magenta. Vladdy. Adley Rushman on the prism. Gunner on the future stars. Stewart Fairchild. Adley. Adley for the Orioles. J-Rod. Boba Shet. Zeke Otovar for the Rockies. Tovar for the Rockies. On the negative for the Red Sox. Rob Refsneider. Rob Refsneider, negative for the Red Sox. Just the Blue Jays. Just the Blue Jays left on the next one, y'all. One team left. Riley Green. Nick Fortes. Garrett Stubbs. And Oscar Colas. Here we go, y'all. Last box of the break. We got just one team left in the next one. One to go in the next one. Last spot for the day in any mixers. And then we have just a couple of spots left in Breakers Delight, y'all. Six total spots left for the day. It depends, Ryan. Are they autos? Are they patches? Are they live? Are they redemptions? There's a lot of factors that would go into the value. Are they printing plates? Are they patch autos? So many different factors that would determine pricing. If it's just like the base cards, honestly not much. If it's just a one-on-one base, non-auto, non-relic, just the true base from iMac. Not a ton. Autos, you're probably looking at a couple hundred bucks. Up to maybe in the four figures, slightly four figures. Yeah, you're looking at probably just a couple like the prime training jackets. You're probably looking at like two to three, maybe four hundred bucks. And the printing plate with the jersey about the same. Unfortunately, printing plates don't go for a ton. But you're still looking at like probably around a grand, maybe a little bit more for the pair. If you find the right buyer, Matt Olson Refractor, Kobe Aller, Kobe Aller Refractor for the Brewers, Magenta Purple, Lava Lamp Joey Weimer, Joey Weimer for the Brewers, Aaron Judge, Cooper Hummel, Sam Hillier, Grayson Rodger, you guys. Hey, no problem, Ryan. I could be a little off. They could go for a little bit more or a little less, but that's just a rough estimate. Blake Sable, Boba Shet, Titans, Jordan Walker, Justin Steele, Refractor Otto for the Cubs. Nice. There we go, Cubbies. We'll all start a game. We'll all start a game. We'll second and, uh, didn't he finish second in the side of young? I think so, yeah. Let's go. Jared Schuster. I know, uh, Beebe finished second in Rookie of the Year. Yeah. Let's go. Yoshida. That seems like this product is way better than people originally anticipated. Some really good pitchers for sure. Yeah. That's a, um, on thicker cards, probably BGS, maybe even SGC for those, Ryan. Just for a quick turnaround, get them in and out, but probably BGS over PSA for the quick turnaround for the thicker cards. Peter Lanzo, Eddie Rosario for the A's, Ryan Noda on the negative, Ryan Noda negative for the A's, Freddie Freeman, Matt McLean on the prism, Matt McLean on the prism, Tyler Freeman, Kyle Lewis on the Aqua, Aaron Judge, Corbin Carroll, Mason Eggler, Adley Rushman, Future Stars. I think so, Mark. Thank you, Mark. I appreciate that. Paul Goldschmidt. I don't know if I keep up with the rest of them as well, but I try. Joey Vada. Yeah, but besides speed, that's got everything else down. Corey Jokes. There. Rockio. And that's just because there's no speed on fanatics. Yeah, you can just. Corbin Carroll. Yeah. All right, y'all, here we go. Low recap. Let's get that last one for everyone. All right. My takes might be rough. My takes might be rough, but I back them up. Everybody has an opinion. I back them up though, Cameron. That's true. You can back it up. Bryce on the magentas, Bryce Miller, Nolan Jones, Bryce Terang, magenta, purple, lava lamp, Joey Weimer, Raul Dischappman, Rich Hill, true purple, Jordan Lyles, Ryan Feltner, Aqua Kyle Lewis, Aqua Blue on the lava lamp, Jake Allew, green, blue, lava lamp, Mitch Garver, true blue, Brian Rockio, Miguel Amaya, blue, green, lava lamp, Rob Rothschneider, gold, mini diamonds, James Caprillion, and our autos, base auto, Brent Hedrick, Oswaldo Cabrera, Teran Vavra, Matt Swarmer, refractor autos, Lenin Sosa, Justin Steele, Josh Winkowski, Chucky Robinson, purple, speckle auto, Blake Perkins, Hayden Wisnitsky, Aqua Wave auto, Alec Burleson, Ben Joyce, true blue, Carlos Radone, blue wave, blue lava, blue mojo, however we're calling it today. We're going to call it blue ray wave, Casey Schmidt at a 150 for the Giants, and the big hit of the break, Masataka Yoshida Diamond Dominance SP. That'll do it for number five, y'all. Thank you very much. Let's get number six filled.


Hi, my name is Ed Spencer, I'm the UK Exhibitions Manager for Sigma Imaging in the UK. So there's a very exciting new alliance that was announced, and Sigma is right there in the middle. Absolutely, it is very exciting. So we are one of the members of the Elm Mountain Alliance, which as I'm sure you're aware by now, is ourselves, Leica and Panasonic. And it's going to give us a great opportunity to make some innovative products for the consumer going forward in the future. So right here, now you're very good friends with Panasonic and Leica. You're going to do a full frame system, provide lenses, but also camera. Yep, so the roadmap at the moment is to launch a full frame mirrorless camera using the Foveon chip next year, and a range of prime lenses from the 14mm f1.8 through to the 135mm f1.8, and obviously all the f1.4 series lenses, all in Elm Mount. So they will also be available for the mount conversion service. So here it says about Sigma cameras, and there's a phobia mentioned right here. What is a phobia? This is one of the great things about the Elm Mount Alliance. It gives the consumer the opportunity of having cameras from different manufacturers that maybe have different strengths. Our cameras have always used, or our digital cameras have always used a phobia on technology, originally a Californian company, and it's a little bit unusual in that we have a completely different way of capturing information compared to traditional filter chip. So what happens on a conventional chip is you capture the blue, the green, and the red next to each other. So you might have a blue pixel here, and next to it might be a green pixel, and next to that might be a red pixel. The phobia on sensor uses a three-layer system. So we capture all of the color information for blue at every pixel location, and then we can capture the same for the green and the red at a stacked one on top of the other. So from a, let's say, 29 million pixel image, it will actually display 20 million pixels on a computer screen. So we're taking more information and compressing it into a much higher detailed image. So the other ones do through color filtering kind of stuff? That's right. So on a conventional chip, it's essentially a monochrome chip, and there's a very strongly colored filter put in front of each pixel, so the pixel will either see red, or it'll see blue, or it'll see green. But you don't get all the colors at each location. Is it kind of like LCD versus OLED? And OLED is kind of generating, or maybe not, but where somehow you have truer colors, how many cameras have come out with this before? So essentially all of our digital cameras have had this on the SD9, which was, I think, around about 2004. So there's been the SD9, the 14, the 15, and now of course we're into our fourth generation of camera system, which is the Quattro system. So we have the SD Quattro H cameras, which have the interchangeable lenses, and the SD, or the DP Quattro system, which are the fixed lens cameras. So the ones that you've had with interchangeable, have they been compatible with Canon or Nikon? No, so traditionally our interchangeable cameras have used their own proprietary mount, which is called an SA mount. And this ties in, of course, with the L mount alliance, where going forward, we're going to use the Leica L mount, and we're going to leverage that very short flange distance, a 20mm flange distance on that system to produce some really exciting cameras. So my experience looking around on the internet, you know, when I look at all the lenses that are out there, people say sometimes, for example, that there might be a Sigma art lens, it's really great, and it's better priced somehow, right? So potentially Leica might have some high priced ones, you might have some a little bit lower priced ones. So Sigma as a company has always seen itself as being the lens for the biggest market sector, let's say. I don't want to say the mass market as such. We've always aimed to have a competitive price point. More recently, with the higher megapixel cameras, we've also aimed to have the higher resolution and other unique features to the lenses. So we're still trying to keep a competitive price edge whilst having an excellent product. So Sigma is like an expert in lenses, right? And how does Sigma make the lenses? Again, that's quite an interesting question, because Sigma do actually make all our lenses in our own factory in the zoo in Japan. We do everything from bashing out the iris blades through to polishing, grinding lens elements and final assembly. So it's a really integrated system and this leads into our Cine product line. You have this as high end, right? We've taken our vertically integrated production from our still camera lenses and we've used that to offer a Cine series of products. So for the red camera, for Ari, for Panasonic? So they're available for Canon EF, for PL-positive lock and for the Sony F-email. So a lot of people buying these for our professional film and TV productions. It's still early days for us and when we launched the range, we didn't have sort of a budget or a target as to what we were aiming for, but they are rapidly gaining a reputation in that market. And there's a whole range right here. But these I would guess cost several thousand or something. The primes are typically around about four and a half thousand pound mark in the UK. Obviously they'll be in different values and different currencies. A lot of people sitting around, there's some presentations once in a while. Yes, we have a number of product ambassadors. This show is obviously run by our German sister company. So the ambassadors will primarily be people they work with. So I can't say too much about that. But yeah, we like to give people something to do at the show, something a bit more exciting than just looking at product behind the glass. So yeah, there are presentations. There's the telephoto booth. We're keen to most of our accessory products as well, because as well as making the lenses and the cameras and the flash units, we also make things like the USB docks, the teleconverters, and even the USB dock for the new flash gun, which is pretty unique. You have some huge telephoto lenses like this. What are these? Are these for taking pictures kilometers away? Well, the big green lens there is the 200 to 500 f2.8. It's the only 200 to 500 f2.8 lens in the world. It's not so much an ultra telephoto. It is only 500 f2.8 at the end of the day, but unique in being a very, very fast aperture. So absolutely fantastic for wildlife if you want to capture animals, that dawn and dusk when they're most active. It's a fantastic piece of kit. Do you have one of those? I have one as my demo kit. I don't personally own one. Okay, cool. Here you were saying there's, for example, filters around here and some veteran products. What is that? So these are some of our older products, which are very well-respected in the marketplace, but they fall outside of a current art sport and contemporary liner. So we can see in the background there, we have the very well-regarded macro range of lenses. One second. So is it like this? And these go for what kind of cameras? So it depends on which one you go for, but they're primarily violent for Canon, Nikon and Sigma RSA. Some of them will also be a violent Sony A-mount and Pentax mount. All right. So right here you have some sports lenses. Are a lot of sports photographers happy with these? Absolutely delighted. I mean, the 150-600, the contemporary and the sports version, they are among the best-selling hyper-telephoto lenses on the market. And you go to something like an air show. These days are a sports event. And when you see an aircraft going past, all the cameras go up in the air. Many, many of them will have those lenses on there. So popular. And the prices are for professionals, right? Not really. Again, I'm going to speak to the UK market. Yeah. $13.99. Sounds affordable for a big lens like that. So you've got a 600mm lens, hyper-telephoto lens, hyper-sonic inverter for ultra-fast-order focus, customizable. This again is a unique feature of the Sigma and the US Redoc. At least we were the first people. So when we set the optical stabilizer up, we set it to what we felt was an optical setting in the factory. But maybe I want to have a more stable viewfinder image, and I want to run the OS a little bit slower to make tracking a subject easier. Maybe I don't care so much about the viewfinder image, and I want to run it a little bit quicker. So using the USB dock and the custom functions, I can change the OS speed, I can change the autofocus speed, and I can even do things like change the distance at which the focus limiter works. There's a little bit of customization in there to make it truly your own lens. So the optical stabilizer, you can manage the speed of the lens. Oh yes, a little bit. We start doing anything in the OS of the camera. Only of the lens. There's only in the lens, yep. And around here, sorry. So you have art. What's the art? So around about 2013, we came to the Global Vision ethos, and we split our product range down into art, sport and contemporary. And in simple terms, you can say that the art series is our premium quality short focal length lenses. The sport is our premium quality telephoto lenses. And the contemporary is our more innovative consumer type lenses, which tend to be a little bit lighter, maybe not such a faster aperture. They tend to have a thermally stable composite barrel, whereas these are primarily aluminium. So people enjoy, for example, the 50mm f1.4, so it's very bright. Absolutely. I mean, the art series lenses, particularly the 35 and the 50, they have an enviable reputation in the market of placing quality. This one right here? Yep, that's the 35mm. So it's like one of the best sellers, or one of the big hits? Yeah, it's so, so popular. I mean, the other popular one, of course, is the 18-35 on the APS-C system. That's found at home in a lot of people's bags for shooting video one as well as stills. A lot of people are saying that people should buy that and use the, what do you call it, the adapter for Micro Four Thirds and stuff, because it's actually, you know, the converter. I can only speak for Sigma and Sigma don't make a Micro Four Third adapter, but obviously we're aware that many, many people are using these on Panasonic's, particularly the video, via various adapters and arrival for third-party third-sets. Can you announce any Micro Four Thirds? We have a new Micro Four Thirds lens announced at this show, but it's not in the Art Series. As far as the Art Series go, new lenses are the 40mm, 40mm f1.4. But is that Micro Four Thirds now? No, no, this is all primary Canon, Nikon and Sigma SA. So there's one on new ones there? This is a unique design for us with the new lens we looked at earlier. We took our existing Art Series still lenses and we converted them into Cine-type products, with all the Cine-gearing and that sort of thing. With the 40mm art, we did it the reverse way around. We knew we would make it as an Art Lens, but it was initially designed as a Cine Lens, and then we launched it, secondly, as an Art Series lens. So it's a little bit bigger than some of the other Art Series, but the quality is absolutely phenomenal. The new Art Series lens, again for GS Last primarily, is the 28mm f1.4 you see there. A nice fast 28mm lens just fills the gap between the 24mm and the 35mm. And like all of these Fast Aventure Prime lenses, has 9 rounded iris blades in them to give a great bokeh as well. So why is the 28 bigger than the 24mm? Shouldn't it be the opposite usually? Or it depends on a whole bunch of stuff inside, right? I'm sorry, I don't fully understand the question. That's a bad question, but I thought that perhaps if you have f1.4 and f1.4 then maybe it would require bigger optics to make it work on a 24mm than a 28mm. Yep, I now understand the question. In terms of the relative size of the lenses, it's really determined by getting the best optical performance. Sometimes that means we can make a lens a little bit more compact without sacrificing that. Sometimes we have to do some clever things with the optics to make sure we get the best possible resolution and the best possible performance all around which is what the art series is really about. Is it true that Sigma doesn't it's famous for maybe not compromising on keeping the size maybe slightly bigger sometimes just to get the highest quality and the best price? Again, if you look at the kind of temporary range we're more interested in size and weight and flexibility and then you see the hyper zoom lenses the 18200 and the 18300 for the APS-C system and they tend to be a little bit smaller a little bit lighter with a slower aperture. When you look at the art series lens they are very much geared towards the best optical performance possible and that's very evident to see and the feedback we've had online and elsewhere very much a lauded by range. And many reviewers on the internet say that you are right up there as the highest quality but it's much more portable sometimes than other people doing. That's what they say and I don't want you to disagree with them. And so this would contemporary if we just jump over here Oh, sorry it's right over here So these are the 5D launching, right? Yep, these are the 5D lenses announced at Photokina 2018 all interesting and exciting in their way. We're looking at the two sports lenses here and we have recently opened a magnesium alloy manufacturing facility at our own factory in Asiut and these are the first two lenses that we can leverage for this one in particular the 60-600 it has a magnesium alloy rear barrel where the lens is obviously in the most stress and then to save weight it has a thermally stable composite main barrel which means we can have a lens that goes up to 600mm that's roughly the same weight as our contemporary 150-600 So you're really getting a premium quality 10x zoom the world's only 10x zoom that goes up to 600mm lens at a usable and friendly weight of 1.8 kilos and so it starts very wide Yep, yep so it goes from a more or less standard all the way through to a hyper telephoto so 60-600 So people can use it as a standard kind of like portrait also? Yep, absolutely so some people will remember we've always done a 50-500 and at the same time we did that we did the 150-500 obviously the 150-500 was replaced with the 150-600 the sport of the contemporary is the modern take on the 50-500 10x zoom concept but also we're going up to 600mm so we're starting at 60 to give that 10x ratio and the prices, is that what you mentioned before? 1399? No, the 1660-600 the SRP UK price for that is 1899 1899 and then we have this one also sports this is absolutely an amazing piece of design almost all the barrels are magnesium alloy so it's a very strong weight lens but there's a couple of amazing features to this it has 10 low dispersion elements so it has a a parallel amount of exotic high performance glass in there but not only that, it also has 11 iris plates which all have a very pronounced curvature to them so you're getting a really fantastic focal with that so for winning sports photographers you're not just going to capture a sharp image you're going to capture a very visually pleasing image as well Nice, and those two they fit on which cameras? So once again these and the art series we're going to look at in a moment they're available for Canon, Nikon and Sigma SI at the current time So that means you have three versions of each? Yep, so we do a amount of version service which is again a unique service for Sigma Offer and that's Canon fitting and it was later moved to a Sigma camera system Sigma SI camera fit you can send the lens back to us we would convert it from Canon to Sigma SI or from Canon to Nikon whichever way around you want to do You convert them? Yep, providing me off with the lens in the fitting you want originally we can swap between one and the other for you But is there no issues with like cropping or some kind of thing that might happen if you convert or just mount somehow? There's no issues with cropping or compatibility but it's a little bit more involved than just changing the mount the mount on the back is actually the easy bit on some of them we do have to change the rear barrel but there's also the gearing, the iris coupling the circuit boards there's a whole bunch of parts we have to change but the actual optics stay the same so you get the same optics mostly the same barrels possibly you have to change one barrel over which way you're converting from Because when you go from DSLR to mirrorless there's a different focal point right? Well again you have to bear in mind that these have only developed a Canon EF Nikon F and Sigma SI so they can only swap between those fittings and all of those fittings are of course DSLR not mirrorless So it's not for swapping over to a mirrorless? No I don't know if there are any plans to bring out the zooms Sony FE if we did do that as we have done with the prime lenses then yes we can swap between Canon and Sony FE with what I was saying is so long as we made the lens in the fitting you require we can swap from the fitting you have to the fitting you require obviously if we didn't offer the lens in that fitting we're not able to make that conversion When we look at the 40mm or 28mm the prime lens are serious here these are available in Sony FE as well as Canon and Nikon and Sigma SI so these you could buy and can fit and later on swap to a Sony F if you want to to Sony FE That's the 40mm we looked at briefly earlier that's been created as an series lens from an original Cine lens design which makes it unique in our range and once again we have the 28mm next to it which you saw earlier as well just blocking that gap between the 24-35mm nice but once again like all of the 1.4 prime art lenses 9 rounded iris plates in there and you have a Contemporary yep we do have a Contemporary 56mm we call this the DCDN range it's a fantastic optical performance very much on a parallel with the Mart series but we've made it using the thermosable composite materials to keep the weight down so you get a very light weight lens to carry around with you with a very high optical performance and once again looking at iris plates on this we're actually 9 iris plates in this lens which is very unusual in such a small lens for a crop sensor camera so yeah pretty quiet And the prices are good? Pricing is yet to be announced so as far as the new products go we only have pricing on the 60-600 So Sigma is how old is this company? Ah now I couldn't tell you the exact date but Mitsuhiro Yamaki-san was the founder of the company and he set the business up in I believe the mid 60s I did look it up once and I believe we're about 5 years younger than Neckon So it's a long history It's a long history of manufacturing in our own factory in the zoo in Japan where we make everything ourselves it's also a long history of innovation so if you go back to the early days we were the first company to produce a teleconverter that fit between the camera body and the lens and that kind of innovation carries on today with things like the USB dock for lenses the USB dock for flash units the mount conversion service these are things which were either first to bring to the market or that we still have unique opportunity for consumers Sometimes people pay even more for the lens than for the camera but not quite when it's Sigma it seems to be more affordable depends we would feel that the lens is the more important part certainly you should be paying more attention to the lens perhaps than the camera in general obviously if you have a very specific function a very specific need there may be a camera that still needs more than another one but by and large the optics are what reduces the quality Did you announce, did you confirm the phobia and the L-mount camera coming in 2019? yet that was the announcement made on I believe Tuesday at a press conference You didn't say exactly when right? I saw a slide just before I came out to speak to you and Kazuto Yamekisan who is the son of our founder Mr. Hiro Yamekisan we stood in front of a PowerPoint presentation it said full frame mirror as phobia camera 2019 so I couldn't get a better source for the information than that