SIGMA 18-35 F1.8 Review

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When the SIGMA 18-35 F1.8 Lens was announced you could hear an audible gasp reverberate around the industry. The reason being is that this is one of the first times you have seen a zoom lens on a cropped sensor camera that had a fixed 1.8 aperture.

In my preview I could not see this lens being any less than $999 when released. Well, I was wrong about the price, it sells new for $799 at AllensCamera.com. The big question that everyone has is this lens worth spending the money on?

Let me start off by again talking about how I review a product. When reviewing a lens I take it out and use it in a real world environment. My goal is not to sit in a studio and shoot test charts because that doesn't tell me how it works in the real world. My job is to give you my honest opinion as well as leave you with real world full res and RAW sample files to analyze yourself.

Once the excitement dies down about a lens like this you have to take an honest look at a few things, is this lens worth the money, who is it for and how are the images captured with it.

I want to first take a look at who this lens is for. Is it for that person who just purchased their first cropped sensor dslr? The simple answer to this question is no, not right off the bat. That's whats so perplexing about this lens. If it were a full frame lens it would be a must buy for all pros but it's not, it's a cropped sensor only lens. In this case new photographers are not going to drop $799 on a lens when they spent around the same price for their body. Sure we know the difference between quality glass and kit lenses but most new comers don't get that just yet.

In my opinion new photographers have other lenses that should be priorities before something like 18-35 F1.8. As a quick rundown I would suggest a SIGMA 17-50 2.8 and 70-200 2.8 if you have a few bucks to spend. Or when just starting out a NIKON 35 F1.8 or Canon 50 F1.8. The way I look at it is this short zoom lens is more of a speciality lens that you add once you have the other pieces of the puzzle.

I keep struggling to see where this lens would find its way into a photographers bag. On a Nikon DX camera you would multiply the lens by 1.5X and you will get 27-52.5mm (35mm equivalent). On a Canon cropped sensor you would multiply the lens by 1.6X and get a 28.8-56mm (35mm equivalent). The point is this lens is not really wide enough nor does it have enough reach to be an all around lens. It has a very limited use and I am still trying to figure out what for.

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