Sigma 50mm 1.4

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I went to Calumnet's open day in Manchester yesterday and foolishly put this lens on my camera for a play, now I want one soooooo much. I was very impressed by it probably because I never seen my camera F stop below 4 before:)

Anyone got one ? What do you think?
 
Excellent lens. Mine was front focusing a bit when I first got it, I sent it back to Sigma for calibration. The focusing is spot on now.
 
I have one and I think it's a great lens.

You have to be careful at f1.4 as DoF is minimal and if you or the subject move at all...

You should buy one! :love:
 
Cracking lens, chose it over the Canon offering and have not regretted my decision. AF is comparatively slow but is accurate and the bokeh is simply gorgeous, don't be put off about potential focussing issues as these are apparent straight out of the box (easily sorted) and there are no reported long term issues, so if you get a good 'un you're sorted.

Carl
 
Thanks Carl, normally I would have been out and got it by now but I am buying a car and insurance this month and I am in between jobs as they say so preserving the cash, I really should have avoided the chance to play earlier in the week.
 
I had one and have never known a lens to be so off in all my life. They are supposedly very good when they are focusing correctly. Not much cop when they're not!!
 
ryanyboy said:
I had one and have never known a lens to be so off in all my life. They are supposedly very good when they are focusing correctly. Not much cop when they're not!!
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This is why I went for the Nikon version, how Sigma can produce so many lenses that aren't completely right straight out of the box is astounding. I used to think it was a myth, until I actually saw so many people report first hand problems with them. I'd never buy a brand new Sigma lens because of this.
 
I bought the Nikon-fit Sigma, instead of the Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G, as I liked the bokeh much better on the Sigma :).

That said, I just never get around to using it as I find a fixed focal length too restricting in a high proportion of cases (when you can't move forward or backward by the 30ft or so, which may be required for the specific framing that you want ;)) and this particular fifty, is far from being 'pocket-sized" :| - it's flippin' huge!!! Colour fringing is a bit ugly at f/1.4 & f/1.8, too (IMHO).

So, whilst I appreciate what it can do, I never actually do anything with mine :shake:. The moral here is, make sure that you really want a prime lens before shelling out 300GBP+ on a flash one :(. YMMV.
 
Naboo32 said:
and this particular fifty, is far from being 'pocket-sized" :| - it's flippin' huge!!!
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Aye, it looks big. Never held one myself but it looks significantly bigger than Canon and Nikon's 1.4 and heavier. Why they need to make it so big with so much glass in it when Canikon can make it smaller is beyond me :shrug:
 
It's made like that to do what it does. They wanted lower vignetting at f1.4 and so ended up with a BIG lens. But it's smaller than their 150mm f2.8 :lol:

From dp review -

"When Sigma first announced the 50mm F1.4 EX DG HSM in March, our story headline (courtesy of our news editor and punmeister-in-chief) was 'A new standard?', and this has turned out to be remarkably prescient. This new lens essentially redefines its class, and for once the results really live up to the marketing hype; compared to previous designs, we see significantly improved sharpness at large apertures (presumably due to a reduction in aberrations through the use of an aspherical element), and substantially lower vignetting due to that that oversized lens barrel. Chromatic aberration (both axial and lateral) has been impressively minimized, and distortion is low - in optical terms there's simply little to fault."

http://www.dpreview.com/lensreviews/sigma_50_1p4_c16/
 
I was going to mention the Canon 50mm f2.5 as an alternative...but I'll post another thread...
 
trencheel303 said:
Aye, it looks big. Never held one myself but it looks significantly bigger than Canon and Nikon's 1.4 and heavier. Why they need to make it so big with so much glass in it when Canikon can make it smaller is beyond me :shrug:
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the canon and nikon versions are old designs - Sigma is a complete redesign which results in low vignetting wide open but also is pretty sharp at f1.4. however, the sigma can't match the canon f1.4 in the corners at smaller apertures but I never cared about the corners when I had my sigma since I used if for portraits not landscapes
 
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