sigma Art Series Lenses
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- HijoDMaite1
I bought the 18-35mm f/1.8 for my Canon 70D, super sharp, great color, incredible build quality, gorgeous lens!
then the problems started...
super heavy for my style of shooting, I walk around a LOT, street photography, reportage and landscapes mainly. it was also annoying to have such a giant barrel in length and girth for only a 18-35mm range you would think i was carrying a huge telephoto with the size of the lens. So it wasn't really stealth when it came to street photos.
Then the main issue. I had the hardest time shooting this lens wide open at 1.8 I mean very hard. To the point where I started to do some testing and I figured there was a front focus issuse or back focus I don't even know. Then I started to use the micro adjustment feature on my 70D to try and fix this problem and it didn't really work. I called Sigma about this and they pretty much told me it wasnt the lens and I could ship it to them and they would fix, calibrate, clean and do everything at no cost, great customer service. So I never found out what my issue was. Maybe it was just the fact that it's very hard to shoot hand held portraits at 1.8 and get tack sharp eyes. I don't know.
This got so annoying, plus the fact that I had to deal with the mother effin crop factor so this lens was actually only 28.8mm - 56mm
it just was not wide enough I was always left wanting a little more width in my shots.So I said fuck it, I put bot the camera and the lens up for sale on craigslist.
Sold the 70D in two days for about 100 less then I paid for it.
The Sigma lens sat on craigslist for over a month. I paid $875 cash and had it as low as $675 with still no takers. It's really hard to recoup your money on third party lenses. The lens was in flawless shape and still no takers.
I finally decided I am going Full Frame canon and I will never look back.
I found somebody to trade the Sigma lens straight up for a new Canon 24-105mm f/4L and I bought a used Canon 5dmk2 with the money from the 70D.
I absolutely love it. Still a little heavy set up but now I have true 24-105mm "L" quality glass and weather sealed setup.
I will tell you that my bro-in-law bought the 35mm 1.4 Art Lens for his Nikon 7100 and he ended up taking it back too. He was expecting a nice little 35mm that he could walk around with and when it came it was also a tank super big and heavy.
p.s. I never shot video with it.
here are some shots I took with the 70d + 18-35mm combo:
