Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 Art DC HSM Lens for Canon

Great low light lens. Photo was taken with a Nikon D7100

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I love this lens. Love it, love it, love it. I own a Canon 24-105, 70-200, a Zeiss 50mm Makro, Sigma 30mm, previously owned a Canon 24-70, Tamron 24-70, and Tokina 11-17. This lens is amazing, built rock solid. Sharp as a prime, and wide enough that it doesnt look super distorted like my Tokina did when filming indoors. The zoom and focus ring are buttery smooth, just like my Zeiss prime. It works fantastic on my 550D as well. If you shoot video - this lens is honestly a must have. I do like my Zeiss more, as it is an amazing lens, but I use this one 10x as much due to the focal length. I wish it had IS - but hey, cant have everything.

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I bought this lens mostly for my landscape photography mounted to my Canon 70D. Very impressed with this lens, heavy and I love it.

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This lens is astoundingly sharp! Im using this with a Canon T6i and the resulting picture quality is nothing short of amazing. That said, you will most likely encounter focusing issues when shooting wide open. Then, why a 5 star review? As other reviewers have mentioned, dont buy this lens unless you also get the corresponding SIGMA USB dock for your camera mount. I have to say, at first, I was unhappy with the prospect of spending another $60 for the dock after dropping $900 for this lens. However, the truth is that any fast lens is going to require some level of microadjustment. And, lets be honest, what does Canon do in this situation? Send your body & lens off for "repair" to Canon, waiting weeks for them to return, with a chance of being damaged/lost in transit, and to top it off, no guarantee that the problem will actually be resolved to your satisfaction? I dont know about you but the savings in time and lost opportunity cost more than makes up the cost of the dock, and furthermore, I can ensure that the focus meets MY specifications. In my opinion, EVERY lens manufacturer should provide a way to microadjust their lenses in this way (at least until stupid body manufacturers like Canon dont provide a mechanism to do it in camera, shame on you!) Short answer, if youre looking for a great wide to normal zoom range lens for your crop sensor body, with image quality surpassing even the name brand prime lenses in this zoom range, you have to make the investment. You wont regret it. Swingset photo taken at f/2 @ 18mm, spin-a-letter photo was a focus test I took wide open at f/1.8 @ 28mm.

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First off know what youre buying...but if you do, you wont be disappointed. This is by far the sharpest lens Ive shot with. I plan on shooting with this far more extensively but wanted to say Im impressed. This is not a "macro" lens but I used it to shoot small objects and got far more detail than I had expected. Im posting a picture blown up to double so you can see some of the detail rendered. On a moth I could see every crease and wave on its wing. I knew this lens would be good, but I had no idea it would be this good. Beware and this isnt the lenses fault but if youre too close to an object this lens will focus on the closest spot it can. It seemed initially like it was misfocusing but it was human error. Most lenses will continue to hunt. Truly a phenomenal lens!

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A very sharp lens, with a very fast and usable large aperture, f 1.8. It is sharp at f1.8 and just gets sharper until f8 when diffraction begins to set in. It is still very usable at f16 for greater depth of field. It is sharp across the field of view, center to corner. It has the focal length equivalent on a full frame camera of 27mm to 52mm. Not a huge range, but a useful one. It is reported to be sharpest at 18mm but it is sharp at all focal lengths. It is a somewhat heavy lens, but very well built. It does not have vibration reduction. But it is very hand holdable in the 1/25 of a second to 1/100th of a second depending on focal length. Higher shutter speeds are of course better. Highly recommended for Nikon and Canon crop sensor cameras.

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I would like to begin with stating that I am not a professional, there is so much that I still have to learn about photography. However, I decided to take a leap and make this purchase. First, I received the item three days sooner than expected and that made me super happy. I was impressed with the quick arrival of the product. Second, upon opening up the package and pulling out the lens I was impressed by the weight of it and the feel of it. Again Id like to state that I am not a professional, however the item did not feel cheap by any means. It has a very solid feel. Is a complete amateur but I love, love, the effect that this specific lens give. I did only receive the lens and played with it for about an hour but still I am super excited to see what this thing can do, OH! yeah one thing that is noticeable is the AF feature, you can hear the lens trying to focus but the lens is pretty awesome I can live with it. Anyway, I will be updating my post after a couple months of use. Anyway hope that helps from an amateurs perspective.

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Everything youve read about this lens is true. Most would call the end result "dreamy". I would call it sensuous. You can almost feel the captured scene. This lens is truly amazing, even more so that its reasonably priced. I did find however that there are 3 issues with this lens only if you want to make video. 1. It has some heavy breathing when in AF mode. I want to use AF since Im mainly filming 3 small children running around. There is no way I could keep anything in focus using MF. This issue would not affect photography. 2. The AF also makes a pretty disgusting noise that is audible within your video. This issue would not affect photography. 3. This isnt the fault of the lens, but you cannot mount this lens on the Weebill Lab gimbal. Its just too dang big. You could use a larger gimbal but I really wanted to build a small kit so that I am not some crazy dad chasing his kids everywhere with some stabilizer contraption like this guy pictured below. I returned this lens and got the 12-35 2.8 II. This lens has native AF, power image stabilization and weather proofing. The image quality is superb. Its not "delicious", "dreamy" or "sensuous" but its still probably the best lens for my needs. I may very well purchase this lens again later in life, but that would simply be for photography or video where the scenes are completely controlled.

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Without a doubt the sharpest lens I now own for my 7D Mark II. Putting this on actually made me feel like I upgraded the camera body itself! I just wish it had a wider zoom range and I am still swapping it for my 24-105 L. Update There was a slight flaw on my copy which appeared like a slightly darker curved band on the left side of the photo. It is only visible in something like a bright sky shot and after adjusting the contrast. But it is in every such photo. Other than that the edge to edge detail was phenomenal. Hopefully my new one will be just as sharp minus the lens flaw. Here is a photo showing the slight dark curved band on the left. Update I did end up returning it and got a new copy of the lens in today. After a couple of test shots it is clear (pun intended) that this one does not have the slight dark band aberration that my first lens had.

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This is my second favourite lens to use overall and my favourite lens to use for landscapes. I own a Canon 80D and I love how sharp my photos look. Im not too technical when it comes to lens specs but as a casual photographer I usually have this and my 24-70 in my bag. I tried using it for portraits and I kept it at the 35mm focal length. (For me 18mm is a bit too wide for APS-C. I think its a 28mm Full Frame equivalent). The only downsides to this lens are its weight. It is a brick. There also is no image stabilization. Those 2 things dont affect me that much. I only notice the weight of the lens when I go on long hikes, but maybe I just need to get stronger. I love this lens and you wont be disappointed if you purchase this.

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