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Pros & Cons
Pros
The 24-70mm f/2. Is a great lens for portraiture. It feels great on my d700, and seems to balance it out nicely. On my dx camera (nikon d90), it's ~75mm-equivalent which is just how you want a portrait lens to be. The only con is maybe price, this is ... Read More
The bokeh this lens creates is beautifully smooth, and the lens has great color and contrast. The pictures it produces seem to have a little more oomph. The sigma smooths out the background, including bright lights, and produces a pleasing blur.
The hood is a solid plastic with 2 large petals at the 12 and 6 position with 2 smaller ones at 3 & 9pm. The hood snaps into place smoothly with a slight effort followed by a snap once it twisted in fully. I like how the lens handles.
Focus testing [. I find the af speed just as fast as other lenses i've used (nikon). Auto focus is fast and precise. A large aperture lens like this is all about finding light.
Sigma 50mm 1. F/1. Is much sharper than the nikon 50mm f1. The colors are more neutral possibly due to coating. The lens is unusual for a 50mm as they are typically rather small. The af on this lens is hands down faster then the nikon 100mm 1/2 f/2.
Cons
Lenses from sigma and minolta are not as good as canon lenses. Sigma lens is not compatible with nikon d3100. Sigma has not issued a recall or updated the lens before retail. Sigma lenses are not available in the u.
Highlights
Quality
The lens is well build, solid weight and has huge front lens.
A solid construction, an nice case and lens hood.
The depth of field with the lens wide open is so small that if you're shooting an even slightly moving subject, you may mistake... Read More
The lens body doesn't have any texturing normally found on lens whether they be metal or plastic.
Price
4 - every single one of them is an absolutely great piece of glass for the price).
Best $500 i've ever spent on a lens.
S this one at literally half the price.
And you paid literall twice the price (five benjamin's) for a lesser lens.
Shipping
I ordered this from amazon originally but had to return it because at the time i hit the buy button too fast.
I received my copy on saturday and have used it on my nikon d800.
Packaging/appearance
I am very pleased with the quality of the packaging and the lens.
I took it out of the box today and put it on my nikon d300 and was blown away by the quality of pictures i was getting with it.
, both new copies were the smooth paint and had the print "works with d5300" on the box.
The lens comes in a cardboard box.
Competitiveness
It took a lot of soul searching to switch over to this lens made by sigma.
The sigma version got consistently better reviews than the nikon version and i have been very pleased with my past purchases of... Read More
I've wanted this lens since a friend who has all sorts of canon dream lenses and the technical knowledge to speak to these thin... Read More
I've owned several 50mm primes, and know that there are a lot of in depth reviews comparing them, so i won't get into all that.
Overview
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- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 205 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 8 2024.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
With the redeeming factor that this sigma focuses like a stupidsharp madman
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And everything else in the background is just 34back there34
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Off in the distance in bokehraton fla
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I was struggling with whether to get the sigma 85mm v
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
S this one at literally half the price
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I found that this sigma 50mm is the way to go because it has such a short min focal distance
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
All you have to do is take one step fwd and youre getting exactly the same shot pixel for pixel as the 85mm would have taken
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Now take that same situation inreverse
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