hey all, so the consensus with the sigma series art lenses is that they are hit or miss dependent on the copy you get right? anybody with any recent experiences or run-in's with the lenses as of late?
djyoung08
i thought i saw on ig or here you messing/renting with one. im in a pretty big group chat here and three people in one week were commenting on how they needed to get their lenses corrected/calibrated for their new sigma's, all less than a month old. im in the market for a 35 but it's been mentioned here before, and i agree that coughing up the money on a new lens shouldnt demand or call for all the extra work to get it to work like something you'd expect brand new, out of the box.
I borrowed a sigma 35 art and it missed focus about 25% of the time.
Calibrating it wound't have made it more
accurate, it would have made it more
precise.
It didnt suffer from front/back focusing, it suffered from just missing quite a bit.
It suffered most when i shot my subjects with strong back light, which as a portrait photographer i almost exclusively do.
Also, 35mm focal length in general is just not a favorite of mine. I typically don't shoot shorter than 85mm.
*EDIT* -- it is important to note that i shot the lens exclusively at 1.4. Depth of field is pretty shallow at 35mm 1.4 but my canon 85mm 1.2 misses 1-5% of the time and the depth of field plane is far more shallow.
The moral of the story for me was that the sigma 35mm art was not dependable for what i do.
if you shoot it at f/4, the DOF plane will be much more wide and it will miss less.
That is not a compromise im willing to make when I'm spending $$$$$$$$ on equipment.
Thats like ordering a $70 medium rare steak, getting it served well done and the server saying "just because you get a steak doesnt mean you need to eat it medium rare"
