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This lens is just a pleasure to shoot with, and gives your pictures a unique look that just makes you smile. I'm sure you've read a ton of other reviews that talk about its sharpness, and I'm telling you they weren't exaggerating. This baby is sharp on my 5D2, and a good percentage of my pictures have that 3D look that just makes your jaw drop. So much so that I just like to take pictures of normal things just to look at them on the big monitor. I would also go as far as saying this may be the sharpest lens at f1.4 ever. I mean, in real world shooting I cannot determine any difference in sharpness between f1.4 and f2.8, hence I just shoot wide open most times as you can't lose. Now depending on how close you are to your subject, if shooting at f1.4 you have to be aware of your focal plane as it's pretty shallow. If shooting a face, nose and eyes will blur out pretty fast if you move the camera slightly after locking in focus. I mostly shoot one shot focus, but have found that servo focus is pretty decent for moving objects. THANKFULLY my copy of this lens didn't need any manual focus adjustments. I will be honest and say it does not hit focus 100% of the time, especially in very low light situations, under tungsten light, and sometimes at far distances when at low f-stops. Distances of up to 10 feet or so it's usually spot on, but you may need to snap off a few extra shots or use live view if you really want to make sure focus is perfect in certain situations. However, I owned the Sigma 85 1.4 as well, and I will say this 35mm is waaaaay better in the focusing department. The 85 1.4 focusing was terrible, no matter how much you manually adjusted it, it always changed. I was disappointed as well because even when it did focus properly my copy didn't give me the 3d eye popping images that I've seen from so many peoples pictures using that lens on Flickr. Other notes on the 35mm, the color rendition is great, and bokeh is smooth and creamy. Minimum focus distance is about 6 inches from the FRONT OF THE LENS, better than I thought it would be. The manufacturer's specifications quotes the MFD from the shutter, not the lens, so it was closer than I thought which is awesome. The lens feels very solid in my hands, quite heavy actually, and you have to admit it just look sexy, a sharp design, way better than canon's tired design. All in all I'm very satisfied with this lens. Sigma has redeemed themselves in my eyes with this gem, and I wish they would revamp the 85mm to be under the ART line. If they did I would buy that in a heartbeat as well.Read full review
This lens is the best one I own so far. I've never been so impressed with image quality with any other lens as I have with this one. It's fast, sharp, and built extremely well. Though it is heavy due to the many lens elements inside, it's all worth it for the beautiful images obtained from it. I've found it to create better images than most L lenses that I've used! Without hesitation, I can 100% recommend this lens to any photographer in the intermediate to professional range.
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The 35mm focal length is great for taking family photo, tourist photo shot with landmarks as the background. This lens is the sharpest 35mm I've used.
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I own two Sigma lens, the 85/1.4 and this recently purchased 35/1.4. I love my S85/1.4, which is a performer, but I have to say, Sigma is really getting better on S35 in terms of both build quality and image quality. This lens out perform the well regarded Zeiss ZE 35/2.0 lens at F2.0 in terms of sharpness.The bokeh is quite pleasant. The building quality is very good. Some one has concerns over the focusing performance of Sigma lens on C/N body, but I don't see much issue there at least on the copy I have got. I would definitely recommend this lens to any one who is looking for a low light lens and/or a medium wide angle lens.
I bought the lens to take pictures of my newborn granddaughter. I had the the photo session with her two weeks ago and got some great pictures that will be used for the birth announcements. I love the lens. It's meeting all of my hopes and expectations.
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