20 Best Sigma Lens For Sony (2023 Updated)

I expected sharp images from other reviews and past experience with Sigma, but worried they would be sterile, flat, and without the depth of contrast from my stable of Zeiss lenses. I am very impressed however with the combination of sharpness and contrast which creates a very strong 3d image.

I haven’t shot anything from Canon or Sigma with this much depth, and I don’t regret going with the 28mm over the Zeiss competition. For others like myself cross shopping against Zeiss, it’s not a strong contrast like the distagon 35mm f2 but it is present and neutral.

Shadow detail/recovery as well has control of highlights surprised me again, my Canon (eos R) sensor was the limit rather than optical limits. Flare resistance is a weakness noted by reviewers and I found the highlight control sufficient to overcome the loss of contrast in post.

Harsh light in landscape scenarios aren’t handled as gracefully as my Zeiss compliment. Color is nuanced but not overly saturated. I greatly miss the manual focus of Zeiss and almost considered returning it for that reason, but it produces some special images in a form factor and focal length I needed for my travel bag.

If your goal is a transparent window into the scene, this lens will provide that. If enamored with the drawing style of lenses past this isn’t the best choice, but it does allow flexibility in post to extract shadow and color nuance to create a more classic look.

I bought this lens because I appreciate the 28mm focal length and enjoy using primes. Sigma has a look to it that I really like, and this lens doesn’t disappoint. Using the 28mm on my Sony A7RIV was not as easy as I expected as a casual shooter.

This is due to the (somewhat) poor AF and missing lens profile in Capture One Pro. I must spend more time processing the raw images to make them look nice and am seeing many more shots with missed focus than I am used to.

This was resolved somewhat by using software with the appropriate lens profile, and once I found an option, I was able to see what this lens is supposed to look like; it really does deserve the Art badge.

It’s not the sharpest lens in the world, but it produces incredible light-stars at f/5. 6 and up, and it does a fantastic job controlling colors, glare, and just presents a very pleasant image. I’ve had some incredible results using a tripod and spending a minute or two setting up the scene.

Open the lens up to f/2+ and you’ll have an easier time achieving focus and avoiding haziness. I’m a mid-level hobbyist and I find this lens challenging to use but very gratifying when I get the shot right.

This lens does an excellent job creating a well-balanced image that can be easily processed to achieve various looks; all with exceptional detail and quality.

For some background, I generally do not mind lens price tags like this (I paid $1,500) if the performance is outstanding and the rendering is beautiful. For the latter, the rendering is the reason to buy this lens.

The look of a moderately wide angle combined with the 1. 2 aperture is really a unique look. Fortunately, the lens is sharp at the point of focus whether at close distance or far and whether you are focusing at the center of the frame or mid-frame.

If you focus toward the edges it can help to stop down a bit. The bokeh is really appealing: not too busy unlike other fast 35s and I personally really like the vignette it produces. As for negatives, there are a few.

I don’t mind the size given it’s a 1. 2 with autofocus, but I expected more symmetric distortion and field curvature. The distortion is a bit funny in that the correction affects one side of the image more than the other.

It’s not a simple barrel in the middle and that can make compositions on flat surfaces more challenging. The big issue I have found is the field curvature and in summary, the lens’ performance isn’t a harmonic improvement when stopping down.

Instead I find it is best at either 1. 2 or smaller than f/4. For some reason the field seems relatively flat at 1. 2, but from 1. 4 to f/4 (or so) and in I can’t get sharpness on a flat plane if I focus at the center at infinity.

Using an off-center mid-field focus point is better as is focusing at a close distance where the curvature seems to affect the plane of sharpness less. The final issue is autofocus in that in single AF it can lock focus then refocus again on its own.

I’m not sure how that happens but also haven’t seen a firmware update.

I just finished using this lens for a week on a short film video shoot. I really loved the quality of the shots, and despite the weight, I was still able to balance and use it in a Robin-S. My only issue is the focus-by-wire they put into this lens instead of mechanical focus.

That made it almost impossible to manual focus a moving subject since the speed at which you move the focus ring will change how fast the focus changes. Because of this you cannot do consistent focus pulls.

That said, it did work great with touchscreen focus pulls, but when I needed to focus on someone walking away, manually focusing was very difficult (although I did have pretty good success with people walking towards the camera with letting the autofocus face detection do the work for me.

I also used the Sigma ART 50mm f/1. 4 and it was WAY easier to manually focus and set up focus pulls ahead of time because of the mechanical focus system. Just something to keep in mind for video shooters if you are looking at this lens over the 35mm f/1.

4 that does have mechanics focus.

I have rented from lens rentals many times and always had a great experience. Their customer service is excellent and equipment has always been high quality. However, this time, the lens just would not focus tack sharp as I’m accustomed to with my own lenses.

It was only something you would see if you really zoomed in, but that’s important to me. I rented the exact same lens a couple of months ago and it was perfect and sharp. I contacted customer service and they did answer my emails and offered some tips to try, but I just do not feel as if it was my equipment- none of my other lenses had the same issue.

It just wasn’t the level of equipment that I’ve come to expect when paying to rent. I am very picky about the sharpness of my images and some might not have even noticed the “soft focus” that I found this lens to have.

Again, service was professional, the lens was usable, and I recommend lens rentals to others …. However, I only used this lens once for the month that I rented it due to the lesser quality images it produced.

I shoot Nikon D850 and been Pro for decades, mostly weddings and portraits. I hav lots of great glass, all nikon,including 20mm-50mm and 85mm Nikkor, as well as 70-200mm VR Zoom. Was in need of a great Nikon 35mm lens.

considered the Nikkor F/2 as well as 28mm F/2. 8. Then picked up the Sigma 35mm F/1. 4 Art. WOW, a wee bit heavy but amazing image quality and so sharp! Its truly a great lens. very sharp, great colors, and at $699 a bargain! HIGHLY RECCOMEND it to all who want really good build quality and stunning sharpness.

on a side NOTE, salesman gave me in the bag a CANON mount sigma lens NOT a Nikon even though he knew well I was shooting a Nikon, had to take 1 hour subway back to store to sort out issue. BH took care of it fortunately.

I recently brought a used one of these from WEX and i am stunned at how good this is, Twined with a Canon EOS R (Viltrox mount adapter) it is brilliant, i have used it to do still life and portrait/boudoir so far and this is the first lens i have used where i am happy enough with the out of camera quality to not even need to edit the photo.

However it is worth noting that this is the most modern lens i own. The only issue is when i first put it on my camera it had 2 large black rings on the photos, after a quick search on google this turned out to be a common firmware issue with the lens and can be very easily sorted in the camera settings if (like me) you do not have a sigma USB dock to update the lens.

I have already recomended it to a friend.

I bought this for my S5, so I believe it’s shooting APSC on a Full Frame, so this looks closer to a 50mm on my camera if I’m correct (???). This is a great little lens. Focus is sharp, great lowlight, and good autofocus for what the S5 can do.

Build quality is up to snuff and it’s not too heavy. I’ve only gotten to shoot a few things with it but so far I am very pleased. I’ve used a lot of different lenses but I’ve never tried a Sigma, so I was very excited to get this.

The only thing stopping me from completing the set is that I’m going for cine lenses. I’m not a huge fan of autofocus/photography lenses but I wanted to try one. If you want a good L-mount lens for a modest price you can’t go wrong with these lenses.

But if you want something a little more adaptable try something else.

I’m reviewing this as a passionate amateur when it comes to wildlife photography. I recently traded in the Sigma 100-400 lens towards this due to wanting the extra 200mm of reach. For wildlife photography on a Lumix system there really isn’t much to choose from outside of the fantastic Sigma 100-400 and Panasonic 70-300.

Both of which are just a little shy of what I would like from a super telephoto lens. It’s with great relief then that this Sigma 150-600 sport is a fantastic lens. It’s performance to price ratio would also make it an easy choice on an E-mount system too.

The lens is undeniably hefty and a tip from me would be to plan ahead for this by investing in a sturdy tripod, I was super lucky to grab the Leofoto LS-323C tripod from the Photography show this year.

Not super cheap but it confidently pairs well with my Lumix S1 + Sigma 150-600 combo. I also bought a K&F gimbal head and an Artcise 36mm ball head. This isn’t to say you can’t shoot handled, you absolutely can as the image stabe is great, but the weight of the set up can take a toll.

Speaking of image stabilisation, there are two options though much like aforementioned Sigma 100-400 I find only option 01 to be of any use. Option 02 seems a bit more jittery to me. Fortunately the stabilisation is smooth and confident in 01 and all you’ll likely going to need.

There are loads of buttons on this thing but the important ones are the focus limiter and the new lock, tight and smooth switch. This switch can be a tough initially and I think could have benefited from a better design.

The flipside is that even though it could have been designed better, I love the new tight mode, I absolutely love it. Being able to tension the lens so that it doesn’t slip easily in and out but not tottally locking it is a life saver! I wont waffle on too much longer.

The image quality is sensational, wide open it does suffer from some chromatic aberration when shooting towards the light, the sweet spot for sharpness is f/8 though I tend to shoot a little faster at f7.

1. And two really cool things are the foot which incorporates an arca swiss plate, this thing can be set to different de-tents around the lens and locked into position. Then there is also the fact that being L-mount you can buy either the 2x or 1.

4x teleconverters taking this up to 1200mm or even 1800mm by applying a 1. 5x internal crop in the camera! Mind blowing! Finally the auto-focus performance is really great, faster than the Sigma 100-400 and with a bit of practice and tinkering in cam you will be getting great shots even on a Lumix cam.

Don’t change your whole system, just get this.

I’ve used these lenses for a video shoot with my Panasonic GH5 and my results were gorgeous, if not stunning. I know these praises are normally used for lenses costing $4,000. 00 each but, believe me, these Sigma lenses really deliver.

I used them in an available light situation indoors, with only faded, yellowish, recessed, ceiling fluorescent lighting and was very concerned about my resultant image quality. When I arrived home, I reviewed my footage on a 4K monitor and my videos were sharp, clear and realistic with fantastic color rendition.

I didn’t even have to set up one supplemental light source. This three kens kit is a must for videographers. True, these lenses focus by wire but with constant practice or non moving shots you will not be disappointed.

No regrets whatsoever on this purchase.

I am a long time photo hobbyist and have had the great fortune of shooting with Canon, Nikon, and most recently Olympus. I have also been able to use multiple lens from these manufacturers with varying degree of quality but usually there are as good as I expected.

Generally, when I buy a lens, I read reviews and gather other’s experience. This lens has has very good reviews so I was expecting a pretty good lens. I must say that I was completely surprised at how great the quality of these lens was.

it far exceeded any expectations. I have been using it with both the Olympus OMD E-M1 and E-M1 II and the results are terrific. Fast focus, the colors pop, and the detail is exceedingly sharp. I have never submitted a review before but I had to for this lens.

For the price, I have never owned better.

This turned out to be a terrific lens and a steal at the price. It’s very sharp, especially for a wide angle, and the weight is manageable for m43. But. it’s still a Sigma lens, and as anyone who has been involved with photography for more than 5 years will tell you, consistency has not been Sigma’s strong suite (and that’s why reviews, both good and bad, can be accurate.

) The first lens I got did not come anywhere close to focusing accurately. Manual focusing showed the lens to be very good. I figured, that’s normal Sigma Q. C. , and hoped lens #2 would be better. The second lens focused perfectly, even at f/1.

4. It’s almost as sharp as my macros and the Panasonic 15mm, so we’re talking seriously sharp. An added bonus for m43 users is that these lenses are designed to cover APS so with m43, you don’t even use the extreme corners.

Highly recommended for still photography. Out of focus areas look pretty good too, for a wide angle, but I don’t know anything about video so I can’t comment on whether this lens is a good choice for that.

I bought this a couple years ago and have regularly contemplated the other mid-zoom option (Sony GM) that I had briefly and thought was brilliant. But it was too big, noticeably big especially at weddings with a flash.

Anywhoo, this Sigma takes amazingly sharp photos,lovely natural colour and the autofocus is quite fast! And its WAY smaller than the Sony, and half the price! I don’t get it. Now, I have missed some shots with this lens, had someone in focus only to see later that it missed somehow.

But that’s not a common occurence. Now Sony has a version II GM, and I’m back pondering. Such a price difference simply doesn’t make sense. If you shoot weddings,and want to NOT spend all your money on lenses, this one is really really good.

I took shots with it I was sure were taken with one of my primes, I had to check it in LR to confirm. That’s all. Whatever’s wrong with this lens that makes it this cheap, I haven’t seen it yet.

It’s no secret that Sigma lenes don’t perform as fast at AF on Panasonic cameras as Panasonics own leses. However I promise that with a littler patience and tinkering you will be capturing some stunning wildlife photos.

To get the most out of the lens you really want to master the controls on the side of it. Changing the AF distance from infinity to close or far focus will more often than not dictate if you make the shot.

The Image Stabilisation modes are a bit redundant as only option 1 has proven useful to me. Finally, make sure set your cameras AF behaviour accordingly in camera. Once I had become comfortable with the above my experience with the lens greatly increased and I now regularly capture all sorts of wildlife photos that I love to show off on my social pages.

I find f8 is the sweet spot for image quality but Panasonic cameras have great ISO performance to compensate. Tip: I also highly recommend shooting in both RAW and JPEG then turning on the in camera teleconverter.

It crops the image by 1. 5x which essentially makes the lense a 600mm on the long end. The catch is it also halves the megapixels. However as you’ve recorded both RAW and jpeg you will have both the cropped and uncropped images.

Getting the crop right in cam has saved me a bunch of time and where I may want a deeper edit I have the RAW files. It’s not the best telephoto lens in the world, there are faster lens, bigger lenses etc but it is a sensibly priced and practical alternative that once mastered will help you capture some incredible photos.

Absolutely love this beast for portraits! Very “creamy” bokeh, tack sharp when used correctly, and very sturdy. However, it is a slightly longer focal length and can perform “soft” on you if not shot correctly.

You need to have your shutter speed at 1/135th of a second of faster to really insure that tack sharpness. Did a shoot last weekend and many of my shots were just under tack. I got down to 1/60th in my haste to let in more light at dusk and those shots suffered.

Not noticeable to the average eye and my client loved them but a trained eye would agree that many of these are trash. In the end, hard to find another lens that would outperform this one for portraits or really any of the Sigma ART series ones so I highly recommend.

Don’t delay, buy today. !.

Very high quality. It makes great pictures. It is great for portraits and has very fast autofocus. You can shoot fast moving objects with focus tracking. There were no problems with focusing on Nikon D750, D850.

The Sigma dock was not needed to set up autofocus. Everything worked fine! Great lens!.

This lens was everything they said it would be and more. I used this for rodeo and animal photography. The lens is sharp, with a beautiful color rendition and at 1. 8 the bokeh is fantastic, fast accurate focus on a D850.

like a whole arena full of faces disappears into a smooth swirl. Confession time: I bought a used copy before the rental period was over; I couldn’t live without it.

Having recently entered the Micro Four Thirds world of photography with the purchase of a Panasonic Lumix GX8, I was keen to see what the 20. 3MP sensor could do, so I needed some quality glass. Looking around, reading and watching video reviews by the bucket load, the Sigma ‘Art’ range of lenses were getting very good reviews for image quality and I couldn’t believe the prices.

A quality prime for well under 200? So, I thought I’d try one and opted for the 60mm f2. 8. The build is surprisingly good. The focus ring, with the absence of a rubberised ring or textured plastic ring, is the same smooth metal of the lens barrel.

The focus ring turns smoothy with a nice ‘resistance’ about it so you know it’s doing something. The build is overall, very good especially for the price. It looks great on my all black Lumix GX8, but what about the image quality? Well, this lens is sharp.

Very sharp and creates beautiful images from the 20. 3MP sensor in the GX8. Nice contrast, accurate colour rendering and minimal chromatic aberrations (if any). There is no lens based image stabilisation, which isn’t an issue for cameras that feature in body options like the GX8, GX7 and the various Olympus offerings.

In short, this is a beautiful lens. I’m so impressed, especially at this price point, Iwill be adding the 30mm and 19mm in the same range to my collection as soon as possible.

The Sigma 60MM F2. 8 DN art for Sony E mount is one of the lenses that is brought up when talking about the best lens for the best price. I am using as a camera the Sony A6300. The price of this lens is incredible for the IQ and sharpness that it has.

I compared it to a few Zeiss lenses and found that for the whole lot of more money that the Zeiss requires to get into my camera bag, the Sigma 60 is by far a better deal. Comparing images with the Zeiss lenses (three of them), I found that the Sigma 60 was as sharp as and sometimes sharper overall than all three of the Zeiss lenses.

Distortion of the Sigma 60 was slight. The Sigma lenses do not have image stabilization and that is OK for me. I use as a video lens a 55-210 Sony lens with Optical Stabilization System (OSS). I own all three of the Sigma prime lenses.

the 60, the 30 and the 19. The 60 and 30 are the art lenses and the 19, which is also an art lens will be replaced by an older 19 that has the rubber focus ring. I would highly recommend all three of the prime Sigma lenses.

The 19, 30 and 60 are inexpensive top of the line in quality lenses that are very sharp and have excellent Image Quality. You cannot go wrong with any of them.

I bought this lens as I have a small Sony a6000 which I use for holidays. Taking all the pro gear makes it a bit like a busman’s holiday and annoys “senior management”, so I travel light these days. This little lens is a stunner in performance for its size and weight, although I do have some concerns about its long term durability.

Already, after only one holiday trip, some of the white text on it is starting to rub off and the plastic seems to be quite soft. Having said that, I’m not going to be treating it roughly, so it should be fine for travel use.

As a portrait lens, it is superb, with a good bokeh, but at a 90mm equivalent on 35mm, it is also a nice short telephoto, when you want to get a bit closer in, or for some discreet street photography whilst traveling.

This lens is a full blown weapon on a Canon full frame body using Canon’s color science. The lense focus’ decently fast and has been pretty accurate for me so far. The official convention on this lense is its less appealing bokeh, but honestly isn’t not a night and day difference with Canon’s L offerings and for the tiny difference in bokeh the lense is scalpel sharp.

The downsides will sort of depend on the user. The lense is spectacular over all including for video but with using the on board mic it creates an audible hum that is distracting I would hate to discount this lense entirely because the video it produces is just plain spectacular but if it’s anything beyond family videos or professional work I would strongly recommend recording audio on a separate device.

Another thing to consider is that this lense is very heavy for a 50mm prime, it is not a nifty fifty and you won’t be tossing this back and forth with an assistant (possible assault charge) all seriousness though it is every bit as big as the 24-70L and just as heavy, this may make it break it for some as this is good FL for street photography but if you’re handholding this on a heavier pro body like a 1DX or 5D you’ll probably want to wear a back brace.

I can tell this lens is going to be amazing but I knew ahead of time that I might need to purchase the usb dock and do the firmware update. At first, I was super happy with the lens just testing at Thanksgiving with some candids with my family, it seemed to focus much faster than my Canon 50mm.

But, then I took it with me for an actual session with a new client (which maybe I shouldn’t of done) but I was excited!! Anyway, there were times that I could not get it to focus at all! Nothing I did would get the focus to work.

It became frustrating! One of the things that appealed to me with the Sigma lens was reviews talking about very little chromatic aberration. My edit time for this session was wayyyyy tooo long trying to fix the chromatic aberration.

It was worse than my Canon lens. I’m really hoping that after the firmware update, some of these issues go away because it will be hard to have this as a go to lens with these issues. This lens is super heavy!!! Just giving a heads up on that! Other than that, when it would focus, it was fast to focus! My images are pretty dang sharp and I’m excited to see what this lens can do with the update.

Build quality is solid. Distortion is surprisingly low. At 8mm sharpness is excellent in center, acceptable at extreme corners, however at f9 is good. At other focal lengths sharpnes is very good. Super vide angle is lowable.

Autofocus is precise and fast. No dencentering is visible at either focal lenghts. Vignetting can be corrected with software. Bokeh is non-existent. With 24 Mpixel sensor focusing is critical – there is no deep depth of field even at 8 mm.

Lens hood is a mix of bugs.

The lens has been around a few years now, and Nikon still have not competed with a rival model, so you have to consider that. I heard a few early reviews from years ago complain about Sigma quality control, regarding focus issues in one corner of the frame while other areas are sharp etc.

Well they are on top of it now, clearly as time ticked by they have revisited the QC on this model and their other lenses too – this came along with the development of the new ART range. I bought one of these ‘used’ earlier in the year but it wouldn’t function properly in live view (D5500) so I returned it, and bought a new one.

This worked perfectly and had the ‘D5300 compatible’ comment printed on the outer carton, just so you know. In use this thing blows my socks off, at f/8 on a tripod nothing is unsharp in a general scene.

I cannot speak highly enough of this lens, and I owned the older 10-20mm for five years, and comparing the images from each, (on a high res camera of course) the 8-16mm is the clear winner. The new model comes with an integrated lens tube and cap – in shape similar to a small tin of tuna and in one piece, there is no lens cap as such, this whole thing slides over the lens hood and seats firmly in place.

You may not think you want to go to 8mm but trust me, you do. I thought my 10mm had me covered for everything, and while it was VERY wide, comparing the 8mm to the 10mm that is actually 20% wider, in both height and width – and you get the MOST interesting compositions.

If you are completely new to this level of width, be prepared to spend a few days leaning how best to use it – but once you master this beauty, you would rather sell your partner to the slave traders than part with this lens.

If you see negative reviews online, bear in mind that the older production might have been affected by the OLD Sigma philosophy – but the past few years as I say, they have vastly improved all lenses in production by the shake up in the company, in developing ART lenses.

Most of the lenses I shoot with, on my Nikon D500, are Sigma. I’ve borrowed this lens before, and it did an extraordinary job in some very tight spaces. I’m looking forward to using it in the great outdoors.

However, this is probably a gray market lens. I did not receive a USA warranty card in the box, even though the Wal-Mart description says that it comes with a 4-year USA warranty. I believe that either Wal-Mart, or the seller, lied.

What is gray market? “Simply put, a gray market product is a product that is imported and sold by any party other than the manufacturer. Most of the time, gray market products are no different compared to their retail counterparts – they are genuine products made by the same manufacturer, only packaged and intended for other markets.

” https://photographylife. com/gray-market-camera-gear Everything about my lens looks right, and it seems to function with the usual Sigma quality. The low price was a bit of a worry, for me, but the assurance that it had the usual 4-year USA warranty tipped the buying decision in Wal-Mart’s favor.

I was disappointed when I failed to find the required USA warranty card. I just hope that it never needs servicing.