A Great Superwide

This lens offers something other super-wides do not - a fast aperture! This separates it from the other super-wide products. It offers minimal vignetting for such a wide and fast lens and minimal coma - great for astronomy. I had no flare issues while imaging throughout the August 2017 eclipse.

Sigma 14mm f/1.8 DG HSM Art Lens Review

Sigma has been breaking ground with many lenses in their Art series and the review-time-latest groundbreaker is this one, the Sigma 14mm f/1.8 Art Lens. The big deal this time While there are numerous lenses covering the 14mm focal length available, no full frame lens wider than 20mm ( another Art...

Sigma 14mm F1.8 DG HSM Art Lens review

First of all you get a unique lens, unavailable in any other line-up. With that angle of view the best rivals offer you devices by about 1 EV slower. Secondly, the resolution results in the frame centre would break records even several years ago and they are typical for many Art series primes.

Solid and weather-sealed casing,, Sensational image quality in the frame centre already from the maximum relative aperture,, Good image quality on the edge of the APS-C,, Lack of problems with longitudinal chromatic aberration,, Imperceptible lateral chromatic aberration,, Sensible distortion...

Resolution on the edge of full frame could have been a bit better,, Weak performance against bright light,, A bit too high coma level,, Impossible to use classic filters.