However, to my eyes this lens has really smooth bokeh, but let’s take a look at a few examples to see if you agree. Sharpnessīokeh is always very subjective. Also, if you are photographing small creatures, there’s a good chance that they will be long gone before you have nailed your shot. This is because to get true 1:1 magnification you will need to be extremely close to your subject, and when you get this close you will end up blocking the light on your subject and sometimes casting a shadow on it too. That said, I do have one niggle with the 70mm focal length when combined with a minimum focusing distance of 25.8cm, which can at times make handling it frustrating for macro work. It really is hard to find fault with the build quality of this lens. The lens features a useful AF/MF switch, as well as a focus limiter switch with three settings – Full, 0.5m-infinity and 0.258-0.5m – allowing you to limit the focus range for faster focusing depending on the distance to your subject. Sigma does not claim that any of their Art Series of lenses are weather resistant, but it does feature a rubber gasket around the lens mount which will hopefully prevent some dust and moisture from entering both lens and camera bodies. The additional adapter that is built onto the back of the lens body for the E-mount does add extra weight and length to the lens over its SLR equivalents.Īlthough the lens barrel extends when focusing I never found it to affect handling in anyway, and with the lens hood attached the lens is always protected even when fully extended. However, the word adapted here is very important since the E-mount version of this lens has been adapted from their Canon and Sigma versions that were originally designed for SLR cameras and not mirrorless. The Sigma 70mm F2.8 DG Macro lens for Sony E-mount (full-frame) is the first macro lens from Sigma that has been adapted to Sony E-mount. All images are copyright protected and may be used for personal use only. However, I do provide the username/password to all members of our community forum. RAW files are also available but password protected to help keep my hosting costs sensible. Full resolution SOOC JPEG images are available to download. **Please Note: Unless otherwise mentioned no post processing has been applied to the image samples in this guide except for cropping. It will be finished as soon as I’ve replaced it. Review Status: This review is on hold since I managed to damage my copy of this lens. I initially rented this lens from HireaCamera here in the UK but have since purchased my own copy so that we can spend a little more time together. Welcome to my rolling review of the Sigma 70mm F2.8 DG Macro Art lens for Sony full-frame E-mount.
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