CORRECTION: ART lenses are indeed not focus by wire at all. They are using an HSM which is a MECHANICAL system. This would make sense why I don’t lose my mind when manually focusing these lenses 😂
Oh, how I hate "wire" control. Every single wire-controlled lens was a disaster in control. Especially laggy control and in-accurate. Thanks god it´s not a wired lens.
I was hooked on Sigma since I got the 18-35mm Art lens a few years back. Rivals Canon L Series Lenses at a fraction of the cost! Looks PHENOMENAL when paired with a BlackMagic 6K
I am hugely disappointed by the lack of auto-focusing test in your video. That has completely ruined my Tuesday. Thanks a lot! . JUST KIDDING!!! Love this review. The "bee-roll" ;) looks amazing. The biggest advantage (or a problem to some people) is the size and weight of the Sigma's. How can you beat the quality and the wide aperture of this zoom combined with it's price. I'm sold!
Oh man the puns!! Dude I am legit debating on buying this one. Out of all I’ve tested this one may be a keeper. Just stay in crop mode and pick it up! Link in description 😂
Excellent video! I actually really like the sharpness and was amazed at the quality and bokeh on the bee footage. I was salivating until I saw how HUGE and HEAVY this thing is! My mouth dropped when you held it up - it's almost as tall as your skull! LOL
Thanks man! Yeah I surprised how little this lens was talked about when I was testing it. Especially since it’s the natural telephoto counterpart to the 18-35
I have an Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, which does have phase-detect autofocus. I also have the Sigma 18-35 f1.8 (Canon version) with the Viltrox EF-M2 speedbooster. I wouldn't say that the autofocus is the same as it would be with native glass, but it's surprisingly good. I think the OM-D E-M1 / Mark II / Mark III / X and the OM-D E-M5 Mark III are perfect companions for this lens, better than Panasonic or Blackmagic.
Would you still recommend this lens for wedding video or would you suggest something else? I work with Fuji cameras and I have a couple of sigma lens (18-35, 30mm) but I often need it something like this. I can get 50-100mm relatively cheap for about $500 but I don't know if he will do the job. I see that some recommend 70-200, but I'm afraid that it will be too big to work with. By the way, great video.
Love the video. Always impressed with the quality. Only one complaint. I’m watching this on my iPhone with beats in the car and even then the volume wasn’t loud enough for me to clearly discern what you were saying over the chatter. If you could bump up the volume a little that would be amazing. 🤟🏾
Thanks for letting me know. I generally error on the side of lower volume, so i can stand to bump it up a few DBs. Thanks for watching and supporting the channel!
Hate you right now haha 😂 I’m over here trying to push buying this lens back a few more months... what pops up on my YT subscription email? This...😣😮 crazy how the universe works. Great video bro. And I’d honestly would prefer to take away sharpness than to want/need the sharpness and not have it.
Lol much apologies! Yeah I think that’s where I tend to lean too. I’d rather have the sharpness than to not have it. Ok if you need a reason not to buy... it’s crazy big. My tripod hated me when I had it mounted on my pocket 4k rig. But that’s all I got... link in description! 😂
Lol You truly don’t have to. I am currently trying to talk myself out of asking sigma to keep it and fork over $$ myself lol so i feel your pain hahaha
wow this lens! 😂 i would totally watch your bee doc!! do you think it would be less sharp with taking sharpness down in profile settings or mostly soften it with pro mist? great vid dood! i really like the image from this lens
It’s possible but I will say I try to change in camera settings as little as possible. Cause in old age I will without doubt forget to change it back. So it’s possible but I would not be able to say hahaha. Also stay tuned on the doc... may be doing something different this week....
The image quality of this lens is great!!! Definitely with someone who said being able to take out sharpness is better than not having it when you need it. Loved the “bee-roll”! 😂 So good!!
Thanks man! I was SUPER impressed with it, especially on the gh5. The IBIS saved my shots for sure Dude I’m not gonna lie my entire video next week may BEE a bee short film lol
I like this lens but having image stabilization is important for event shooting. You never know when you may need to grab a hand held shot. of course ibis will do this for you but not all cameras have that option. I wish sigma would release a new version of the 17-50mm 2.8. but I feeling most new development will go to mirrorless like the RF mount.
That is one I don’t think I ever used. I’ve had some friends that have used it but I have not personally used the 17-50. As far as stabilization... speaking from someone that basically bought a shoulder rig because of this lens at a wedding, I can completely understand where you are coming from. I was able to get some steady footage with the pocket 4k and this lens, but it’s definitely not easy. Unless you grab a shoulder rig.
Good point. That's the only thing I wish Sigma had in more of their lenses. Not to mention IBIS efficiency falls off at telephoto ranges so OIS becomes a far more important feature. If Sigma could just update these 2 lenses with an inbuilt speedbooster and silent autofocusing motors (just for the E-mount) for mirrorless with a native mount that would be awesome.
I’m having a hard time finding any prime lenses that will fit, or come close to these lenses for the price/quality. Mostly shoot video, some photography. Any recommendations? These are a killer duo and I also have a 24-70mm2.8 Sigma Zoom that is FF and I love that! Especially if I can only take 1 lens somewhere.
Is it too shaky/bulky when you used to shoot it with handheld? or the only way is to shoot from tripod or from heavy rig setup as it doesn't have stabilization.
I’m thinking of getting the Nikon mount but I’m worried about the lack of in camera aperture control. How do you feel about not having in camera aperture control??
I don’t mind it. But most of the lenses I use are manual anyways. Just get a good adapter that has a good aperture right. I am using the viltrox dummy adapter and speedbooster.
Two questions please: So on a gh 5 this lens would be 75~150 mm (FF equiv.?) and could the exposure on this clip benefit from a one or two stops more light? (forgive me for silly questions, I want to know)
@@Ansonandco True 100-200mm on the MFT 2x crop factor, but to the original Lister's point, if the user used a Speedbooster then the 100-200mm would he multiplied by 0.71x to get you 71-142mm, but if the user just used a plain adapter it would stay 100-200 on the GH5.
@@MattJett being that the 18-35 on a SB 0.71 can allow aperture to reach 1.2 even tho it is a 1.8 would that also mean that the 50-100 lens with a SB 0.71 can go to 1.2 as well even tho it is a 1.8 or I’m a missing something?
1:23 you did that discontinuity thing again where your face is doing one thing and your voice is from another clip doing another. I don't think it's worth the 1 or 2 seconds it saves, personally. Jarring is the word I'd use. You may recall our previous conversation on this topic? :-D Also a bit disappointed that this lens is NOT for MFT/M43 - is there a version available for them? If not, the title is a bit click baity, too. My 2c. Had me all excited "native fast sigma zoom? Yes please!" :-D
Several more instances of that edit style and all were yuck to me. And not sure if a playback glitch (if so, first time) or an edit mistake, but sound and lips didn't match in latter part of video up to 724 and the minute or so before that.
Thanks for the feedback. I think the audio may be due to a latency without it was edited and the actual video speed. As far as native MFT it is not. But due to the fact I used this lens all the time on my GH5 and now pocket 4k, while it’s not native, it is still my go to telephoto lens for my system. So not really click bait.
@@Ansonandco If you replace the word 'for' in the title with 'on' it becomes perfectly acceptable, the title as it stands implies that the lens is for (built for, designed for, manufactured for, compatible with) those cameras. On the flip side, that's oddly specific - if it was that you'd likely write MFT/M43. But... :-p I can absolutely see why you like them, the power of f1.8 with the flexibility to frame your subjects without moving and choose your background compression. Winner for sure. Notably, the AF performance is mostly only bad for video - DFD is pretty good for photos, fast and accurate - so AF is still a desirable thing to have in a lens, for me. My only Sigma so far is the 16mm 1.4, but that's likely to change in future, even if only by adding the other two primes :-)
work on your audio level when you are editing videos. put a limiter or compressor on the voice - your overall volume is lower in comparison to other videos on RUclips
CORRECTION: ART lenses are indeed not focus by wire at all. They are using an HSM which is a MECHANICAL system. This would make sense why I don’t lose my mind when manually focusing these lenses 😂
Phew. Just bought the 18-35 and nearly returned it. The Fuji FX mount lenses are focus by wire and it’s a nightmare pulling focus.
Oh, how I hate "wire" control. Every single wire-controlled lens was a disaster in control. Especially laggy control and in-accurate. Thanks god it´s not a wired lens.
I was hooked on Sigma since I got the 18-35mm Art lens a few years back. Rivals Canon L Series Lenses at a fraction of the cost! Looks PHENOMENAL when paired with a BlackMagic 6K
Absolutely amazing lenses for real! I’m trying to get my hands on some more to test. I have always been a huge fan of what sigma offers.
I am hugely disappointed by the lack of auto-focusing test in your video. That has completely ruined my Tuesday. Thanks a lot!
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JUST KIDDING!!! Love this review. The "bee-roll" ;) looks amazing. The biggest advantage (or a problem to some people) is the size and weight of the Sigma's. How can you beat the quality and the wide aperture of this zoom combined with it's price. I'm sold!
Oh man the puns!! Dude I am legit debating on buying this one. Out of all I’ve tested this one may be a keeper. Just stay in crop mode and pick it up! Link in description 😂
Thanks for this review! We've got the Sigma 18-35, but have been eyeing the 50-100 for a while.
It’s a great pair just watch out for the focus breathing
Great review man. I love this lens. At the moment I just rent it for shoots since I don't need it for every shoot but it pairs well with the 18--35.
Thanks! I really enjoyed using it definitely a good pairing
Great review! Shots and natural lighting tests are beautiful!
Thanks so much! I was really excited to see the final results from that shoot. Definitely a great low light lens.
Excellent video! I actually really like the sharpness and was amazed at the quality and bokeh on the bee footage. I was salivating until I saw how HUGE and HEAVY this thing is! My mouth dropped when you held it up - it's almost as tall as your skull! LOL
I’m telling you! Great weapon for if everything goes south.
This was an amazing review! Exact same thing I was wondering about pairing my 18-35 with this. As well with a pocket 4K! Thank you!!
Glad it could help! Thanks for watching!
great vid man! Was hard to find any recent video talking about this lens and video, surprisingly I only just picked up a canon one for Komodo now
Thanks man! Yeah I surprised how little this lens was talked about when I was testing it. Especially since it’s the natural telephoto counterpart to the 18-35
Love your work. I have had the 70-200 2.8 sigma for 15 years.. Love it.
Thanks so much! I love sigma lenses. Say what you will about them but they are just amazing quality
Ooo soo tempting 🤔👀, good review 👌🏾
Thanks! It is such a good lens for sure✌🏻
Another lovely review. Always looked at this lens as a great double camera set up along with the 18-35mm for a wedding.
I love the pairing of these two lenses. Such a good fit together.
I have an Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II, which does have phase-detect autofocus. I also have the Sigma 18-35 f1.8 (Canon version) with the Viltrox EF-M2 speedbooster.
I wouldn't say that the autofocus is the same as it would be with native glass, but it's surprisingly good. I think the OM-D E-M1 / Mark II / Mark III / X and the OM-D E-M5 Mark III are perfect companions for this lens, better than Panasonic or Blackmagic.
That’s awesome! I may have to test out the camera
Great review, thanks for helping me make a decision!
Thanks dude! If your big into the 18-35 it’s a good lens to combine with it. It does have pretty bad focus breathing: just be aware haha
@@Ansonandco 18-35 is what I film everything with today. 😉
Would you still recommend this lens for wedding video or would you suggest something else? I work with Fuji cameras and I have a couple of sigma lens (18-35, 30mm) but I often need it something like this. I can get 50-100mm relatively cheap for about $500 but I don't know if he will do the job. I see that some recommend 70-200, but I'm afraid that it will be too big to work with. By the way, great video.
Thanks! If you’re needing AF it will be slower than some newer mirrorless cameras but still a solid lens option
Love the video. Always impressed with the quality. Only one complaint. I’m watching this on my iPhone with beats in the car and even then the volume wasn’t loud enough for me to clearly discern what you were saying over the chatter. If you could bump up the volume a little that would be amazing. 🤟🏾
Thanks for letting me know. I generally error on the side of lower volume, so i can stand to bump it up a few DBs. Thanks for watching and supporting the channel!
Anson & Co. amazing!
Hate you right now haha 😂 I’m over here trying to push buying this lens back a few more months... what pops up on my YT subscription email? This...😣😮 crazy how the universe works. Great video bro. And I’d honestly would prefer to take away sharpness than to want/need the sharpness and not have it.
Lol much apologies! Yeah I think that’s where I tend to lean too. I’d rather have the sharpness than to not have it.
Ok if you need a reason not to buy... it’s crazy big. My tripod hated me when I had it mounted on my pocket 4k rig. But that’s all I got... link in description! 😂
Anson & Co. Haha 😂 all seriousness you have my word that I will buy it through your link when I do so
Lol You truly don’t have to. I am currently trying to talk myself out of asking sigma to keep it and fork over $$ myself lol so i feel your pain hahaha
Anson & Co. Haha that’s real!
wow this lens! 😂 i would totally watch your bee doc!! do you think it would be less sharp with taking sharpness down in profile settings or mostly soften it with pro mist? great vid dood! i really like the image from this lens
It’s possible but I will say I try to change in camera settings as little as possible. Cause in old age I will without doubt forget to change it back. So it’s possible but I would not be able to say hahaha.
Also stay tuned on the doc... may be doing something different this week....
@@Ansonandco awesome! looking forward to checking that out!
Absolutely agree about 18-35 and 50-100) Image is so beautiful)
The image quality of this lens is great!!! Definitely with someone who said being able to take out sharpness is better than not having it when you need it.
Loved the “bee-roll”! 😂 So good!!
Thanks man! I was SUPER impressed with it, especially on the gh5. The IBIS saved my shots for sure
Dude I’m not gonna lie my entire video next week may BEE a bee short film lol
I like this lens but having image stabilization is important for event shooting. You never know when you may need to grab a hand held shot. of course ibis will do this for you but not all cameras have that option. I wish sigma would release a new version of the 17-50mm 2.8. but I feeling most new development will go to mirrorless like the RF mount.
That is one I don’t think I ever used. I’ve had some friends that have used it but I have not personally used the 17-50. As far as stabilization... speaking from someone that basically bought a shoulder rig because of this lens at a wedding, I can completely understand where you are coming from. I was able to get some steady footage with the pocket 4k and this lens, but it’s definitely not easy. Unless you grab a shoulder rig.
Good point. That's the only thing I wish Sigma had in more of their lenses. Not to mention IBIS efficiency falls off at telephoto ranges so OIS becomes a far more important feature.
If Sigma could just update these 2 lenses with an inbuilt speedbooster and silent autofocusing motors (just for the E-mount) for mirrorless with a native mount that would be awesome.
The focus breathing is the deal breaker. The out of focus rendering is a bit clinical for busy background.
Great Video, I have the 18-35mm which i love so this is 100% my next lens
Thoughts on the lens breathing? 🤔 it's the only thing I hate about this lens lol everything else is solid
I’ve always seen it as a compromise with how good all the other aspects of the lens are. But yes the focus breathing is terrible
Hello, can you please tell me that this kit can be installed on a dji stabilizer?
I’m having a hard time finding any prime lenses that will fit, or come close to these lenses for the price/quality. Mostly shoot video, some photography. Any recommendations?
These are a killer duo and I also have a 24-70mm2.8 Sigma Zoom that is FF and I love that! Especially if I can only take 1 lens somewhere.
Is it too shaky/bulky when you used to shoot it with handheld? or the only way is to shoot from tripod or from heavy rig setup as it doesn't have stabilization.
I used it handheld for a wedding and it was fine but it was definitely rigged up and that shoot made me end up pulling the trigger on a shoulder rig
I have the 18-35 and the 50-100. Do you suggest the rokinon dsx for narrative work? I was thinking about getting a set.
I’m thinking of getting the Nikon mount but I’m worried about the lack of in camera aperture control.
How do you feel about not having in camera aperture control??
I don’t mind it. But most of the lenses I use are manual anyways. Just get a good adapter that has a good aperture right. I am using the viltrox dummy adapter and speedbooster.
Anson & Co. what do you think about the declicked aperture dial on the metabones?
I'm a bit of a newbie here, Is this lens compatible with the Panasonic Lumix G7 using an adopter?
Is it possible to make 50-100 parfocal like 18-35 by adapting back focus on speedboster?
It’s possible but I’d have to check. I use the same speedbooster for both and so in theory it should work on both. Hold please lol
@@Ansonandco I'd appreciate it
Two questions please: So on a gh 5 this lens would be 75~150 mm (FF equiv.?) and could the exposure on this clip benefit from a one or two stops more light? (forgive me for silly questions, I want to know)
It’s 100-200 on the gh5 and for my talking portion? It’s possible. It tend to make my videos a little more dark.
@@Ansonandco True 100-200mm on the MFT 2x crop factor, but to the original Lister's point, if the user used a Speedbooster then the 100-200mm would he multiplied by 0.71x to get you 71-142mm, but if the user just used a plain adapter it would stay 100-200 on the GH5.
@@MattJett being that the 18-35 on a SB 0.71 can allow aperture to reach 1.2 even tho it is a 1.8 would that also mean that the 50-100 lens with a SB 0.71 can go to 1.2 as well even tho it is a 1.8 or I’m a missing something?
How do you handle the focus breathing?
Embrace it for all its glory lol
1:23 you did that discontinuity thing again where your face is doing one thing and your voice is from another clip doing another. I don't think it's worth the 1 or 2 seconds it saves, personally. Jarring is the word I'd use. You may recall our previous conversation on this topic? :-D Also a bit disappointed that this lens is NOT for MFT/M43 - is there a version available for them? If not, the title is a bit click baity, too. My 2c. Had me all excited "native fast sigma zoom? Yes please!" :-D
Several more instances of that edit style and all were yuck to me. And not sure if a playback glitch (if so, first time) or an edit mistake, but sound and lips didn't match in latter part of video up to 724 and the minute or so before that.
Thanks for the feedback. I think the audio may be due to a latency without it was edited and the actual video speed. As far as native MFT it is not. But due to the fact I used this lens all the time on my GH5 and now pocket 4k, while it’s not native, it is still my go to telephoto lens for my system. So not really click bait.
@@Ansonandco If you replace the word 'for' in the title with 'on' it becomes perfectly acceptable, the title as it stands implies that the lens is for (built for, designed for, manufactured for, compatible with) those cameras. On the flip side, that's oddly specific - if it was that you'd likely write MFT/M43. But... :-p I can absolutely see why you like them, the power of f1.8 with the flexibility to frame your subjects without moving and choose your background compression. Winner for sure. Notably, the AF performance is mostly only bad for video - DFD is pretty good for photos, fast and accurate - so AF is still a desirable thing to have in a lens, for me. My only Sigma so far is the 16mm 1.4, but that's likely to change in future, even if only by adding the other two primes :-)
@@fredio54 you're a funny guy
@@fredio54 Man, I hope one day all of us can have the time you seem to have to hang out in the comments.
I saw more talking heads than sample video, but thanks for all the talk I guess.
Yeah I was not great back then about loading up a bunch of footage. Hopefully I’ve learned from that in that last couple of years.
work on your audio level when you are editing videos. put a limiter or compressor on the voice - your overall volume is lower in comparison to other videos on RUclips
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