Sigma 45mm f/2.8 DG DN Contemporary Lens for Sony E

2023-01-06T12:26:46

It?s small, compact and fast. It renders soft yet usable images. I?m glad to purchase this one on a such a deal price.

XIANNAN J.

2022-10-22T13:56:01

First off, this seems to be a well made lens. It?s all metal and feels solid. Even the lens hood is metal and chunky. Image quality is good but not great. As many reviews have noted, it?s soft wide open. Stopping down definitely helps, but it?s never going to be the sharpest lens in your bag. The bokeh is definitely smooth and nice, though. But apparently that was the intention the lens designers had?bokeh quality over tack-sharpness. Even though the lens is solidly built, it?s small and thus not too heavy. It feels good on the camera (Sony a7ii in my case). It?s small enough to be a good walk-around or travel lens. The 45mm focal length is nice?very close to what the human eye sees. The aperture ring is a nice feature?I like it better than controlling the aperture in camera. The AF/MF switch is nice too. If you go in not expecting a pro-quality lens, and you like smooth bokeh over tack-sharpness, you?ll be happy with it. Especially if you get it on sale.

Michael B.

2022-10-07T15:23:39

Perfect for Sony A7C. Useful for everyday photos, street photography. Small, easy to use.

Steve R.

2022-10-05T08:11:22

This lens is very well built, very compact, and still sharp even on a7r iv. The only gripe is autofocus slower than it's competitors.

Samuel W.

2022-08-30T19:15:33

This is my favorite lens to keep on my Sony A7C. Compact and sharp. Excellent for portraits. Excellent value.

Thomas M.

2022-08-20T11:49:23

This lens has the best build quality of any lens available. It?s beautiful on my A7iv, elegant and compact. Perfect focal length for most situations. Very happy with my purchase.

Brian G.

2022-07-01T13:39:39

Nice compact small lens for everyone

yohann s.

2022-06-08T10:27:59

This is a beautiful lens. If your looking for a lightweight, compact and high performance lens, this is the one. The bonus is that it has auto focus. I?d recommend.

KASAUNDRA S.

2022-06-06T09:48:43

Exellent lens, small, durable, super sharp.

Emil Y.

2022-05-26T21:04:36

I enjoy the full frame lens in its very small format factor. The price was good and the f2.8 on full frame gets me enough light

ALAN N.

2022-05-18T08:11:36

Great tiny lens for walking around and street photography. I also liked it for car photography.I find 45mm focal lengths more comfortable than 35mm.

OLEKSANDR N.

2022-05-09T10:26:59

Excelente producto.

Natalia C.

2022-04-14T08:23:21

Great lens for the price

DOUGLAS C.

2022-04-05T10:24:21

Small , sharp with good rendering lens.

OLEKSANDR L.

2022-01-18T07:28:14

The purchase, shipment and delivery process was smooth and flawless. The lens looks and feels solid. Haven't done much experiments with it yet. Will update later

SANTHOSH K.

2021-12-20T04:51:07

Amazing piece of glass, super sharp and quick to focus plus Sigma knocked it out of the park with the build quality. It just feels so good in the hand ???? Would?ve wished for a little brighter aperture but it?s more than adequate for most work.

Yanny M.

2021-12-18T14:25:04

This pairs well with my A7C. It's built like any other Sigma, full metal and durable except it isn't huge like Sigmas normally are. Slight vignetting and distortion but the A7C corrects it without any issue. For what you pay you're getting a great performing lens that'll keep your setup small and light.

KEVIN S.

2021-04-07T08:17:47

The build quality on this lens is great. It's metal body and small size look great on my Panasonic S5.

Kim R.

2020-06-03T17:29:47

This is an amazing lens. I was a tad bit skeptical about purchasing it for my Leica T, but it's incredibly sharp and incredibly fast. The only drawback, the aperture ring doesn't control the aperture on the camera. So be mindful of that if you're using the Leica T.

CHRISTOPHER K.

2019-12-17T18:57:55

This lens may or may not work on 1st Generation Sony a7x bodies. I had two consecutive lenses lose their ability to focus altogether after a few days of normal use. Both times it happened shortly after changing the focusing mode via the camera. The first lens went back to Adorama, the second I sat with for a few days, wondering if I was just reaaaaally unlucky, or if there was a compatibility issue. And, yes- I performed every last troubleshooting step I could think of, including (but not limited to) cleaning the contacts, trying every different combination of focusing modes via lens and camera, using brand-new batteries, and a factory reset. The lens was still in communication with the camera, as evidenced by the fact I was able to change the aperture from the camera dial while the lens was in "A", and the fact that the digital distance scale in the EVF moved when I turned the ring in MF mode. The focus was just.... frozen. As a desperate, last-ditch attempt to salvage the lens, I enlisted the help of a friend who owned an a73. I had him put the lens on his camera and, guess what? It WORKED. I put it back on mine and it sprang back to life, like nothing had ever happened. Crazy, right? I toggled over to Video and it started to glitch out again, so I quickly put it back into Stills mode. I'm sticking to using AF-S only, out of fear it will crap out again, during the busiest photo time of the year, no less. I recalled that video is AF-C by default, which confirms my theory that the lens simply does not play well with changes made via the camera. So, you may be asking.... why? Why would anyone put up with this? Furthermore, why would anyone put up with this from a $[xxx] lens that only goes to f/2.8 when there is (according to most of the Internet) a much "better" 45mm f/1.8 lens for a couple hundred dollars less? I will attempt to answer that. Without going overboard on listing my qualifications and tallying my gear list, I'll tell you that I'm a complete, unapologetic Lens Snob. However, my snobbery doesn't derive from lenses that champion MTF charts, or easily quantifiable data points like f-stop numbers, but from the subtleties. Handling. Rendering. That "B" word everyone hates. Transition zones. That sort of thing. If I don't like the way a lens *feels* in my hand, I'll leave it on the shelf. Sigma is not a company that needs to prove it knows how to make sharp lenses. It's not a company that needs to prove it can make fast lenses. It's already done plenty of those, often with size and price being de-prioritized to those ends. This lens' design was focused solely on creating a lens with the best *rendering* in a small, beautifully-crafted package. If you'd like to read about the design philosophy from one of the engineers behind it, Google "Ohsone's Anecdotes Episode 6" because I can't link it. I rented this lens for a weekend gig and I was absolutely HOOKED. The all-metal build, aperture ring, size/weight combo was glorious, but the rendering was unlike anything I'd ever seen. Buttery smooth backgrounds, even at f/4-f/5.6, where most lenses get gnarly. Tones that could melt butter. Even the busiest, jagged and geometric transition zones were rendered as silk. Like the classic Sonnars, but with more "pop" where it counts, more edge to the points in focus. ZERO CA. Flare when you really were *trying* to get flare. So, is this really an "overpriced" lens, as so many out there are claiming? Let's consider, for a moment, the competition. The Sony 35mm f/2.8, which, even 5 years or so after its release, is listed at around $[xxx] new. And we really don't need to re-hash all the technical issues that lens has, for all its adherents. The new 35mm f/1.8? Also $[xxx]. The 55/1.8 (aka CA MONSTER)? $[xxxx]. And, sure. The Elephant in the Room. The Samyang/Rokinon 45mm f/1.8. Sure, yeah- that one is $[xxx]. It's also EXTREMELY harsh in the transition zones, has no aperture ring, and is likely, quite literally held together with glue (ask Roger at LensRentals about that) So there's that. But hey, if you want to save a couple hundred bucks on arguably the most important element (pun intended) in your gear bag, or don't want to lower your shutter speed or boost your ISO in low light, it's an option, sure. This Sigma? Something else entirely. (Knocking off a star for making me deal with quirks... c'mon with some firmware, Sigma) P.S.- thanks Adorama for the painless exchange, but please look into this on 1st Gen Sony bodies.

TIMOTHY S.

2019-12-17T09:05:04

Incredible for what it does well, and for me that is a Leica SL street lens. Small gorgeous and super sharp at typical street focal distances and apertures. Anyone can complain about it only being 2.8 and not tack sharp at 2.8 at the minimum focus distance. However, there are horses for courses and this once is a winner if you know what it does well and suits your needs.

John C.

2019-12-11T19:55:39

This lens is really well built and small, it's currently the smallest L-mount lens with autofocus. Can be a bit soft with low contrast when focusing close, but it's has good sharpness & contrast from mid-distances to infinity.

JOHN A.

2019-09-04T06:48:50

The aperture ring is pointless since it's still electronic so with the lumix S1 shooting high speed video you still can't control the aperture. The lens is soft until you get to around 5.6 and the focus gear on the front is made of metal and a wireless focus motor slips to much to make it usefull. Pulling manual focus in linear focus is very clumsy and feels more like non-linear. Howeve it's still my favorite street photography lens right now (9/4/2019) for my S1 so I'm okay with it but also wouldn't recommend it to most.

Tyler L.

2019-08-20T08:35:56

This lens is extremely sharp and lightweight. 45mm is closer to what human eye sees, making this lens an great lens for photo who obsess about composition and framing your subject. The manual aperture ring is just a joy to use, I wish more lenses had the feature. Overall this is a must have lens for the Panasonic LUMIX DC-S1.

Marcus W.