Sigma 50 1.4 DG HSM
I just got this, according to specs, jewel today. I didn’t to any serious shooting with it yet, I just took some comparison shots, so you can get a feel for the size. I put it side by side with my nifty fifty (Canon 50 1.8) and Canon 85 1.8. Sure, ideally I should use Canon 50 1.4 for comparison, but unfortunately it’s not at my disposal at the moment.
The built is standard EX, with HSM. It has a huge front element with 77 mm filter thread(note that its competitors have a size of 58 mm). This looks really promising, the image quality should be excellent. I can’t wait to try it out on a real session (I planed one for tomorrow, but the weather forecast looks rather bad), to see how it compares to the competition, especially in the f1.4-f2 range. I’ll make a test, which will be published on slo-foto.net and post some samples during the testing on my blog as well.
Here are the comparison shots. As you can see, the nifty fifty looks like a fucking joke compared to Sigma (so much smaller, with tiny glass elements and cheap plastic made along with the plastic mount). Compared to 85 1.8, Sigma is a bit shorter, but noticeably wider, with larger front element and similar rear element. Since I (as I mentioned before) regrettably didn’t have a Canon 50 1.4 to compare it with I can only give you this link to a post where I did a similar comparison with Canon 50 1.8 and Canon 50 1.4 - CLICK.
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Bruno said
am July 5 2008 @ 11:32 pm
Don’t forget that when comparing the Sigma size with the other lenses, the 77mm vs 58 is not the front element, but the filter thread. Looking at the Canon 1.8 you see that the actual front element is very much smaller than 58mm (less than 30mm actually), increasing even more its size difference from the Sigma.
The Sigma does loge huge.
Peter Bernik said
am July 6 2008 @ 12:19 am
Tnx Bruno, I overlooked it. But as you said it, when it comes to front element comparisons, the difference is even bigger then in filter thread size.
Kristjan said
am July 17 2008 @ 7:50 pm
Kot gledam… dražja je od “original” 50k (nikon, canon)
Kako pa je po optičnih zmogljivostih? (bokeh, ostrina…)
Peter Bernik said
am July 17 2008 @ 8:44 pm
Žal ne vem, ker je imel primerek front focus, kalibrator je pa tudi takrat crknil. Tako da sem jo pač vrnil.
Bi sicer že objavil…