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| Sigma 50mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM Lens for Canon Digital SLR Cameras | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 2 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2136
Category: Photography
Publisher: Sigma Corporation
Studio: Sigma Corporation
Brand: Sigma
Label: Sigma Corporation
Media: Electronics
Fragile: 0
Batteries Included: 0
Minimum Focal Length: 50
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 3.3 x 3.3 x 2.7
MPN: 310101
Model: 310101
UPC: 085126310547
EAN: 0085126310547
ASIN: B0018ZDGAC
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| Features:
| • | Large Aperature, standard prime lens, has superior peripheral brightness and corrects the sagittal coma fare | | • | Standard lens with large maximum aperture of F1.4. | | • | Creates sharp images with high contrast and ensures superior peripheral brightness | | • | Incorporates molded glass aspherical lens, perfectly correcting coma aberration and creating superior image quality. | | • | Super multi-layer lens coating reduces fare and ghosting. |
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Product Description
This is a large aperture prime lens with a standard focal length of 50mm, ideal for all digital SLR cameras. This lens has superior peripheral brightness even at the maximum aperture and corrects a possible sagittal coma flare. This lens is perfectly suited for a wide range of subjects enabling outstanding, sharply defined images against a nicely blurred background. The fast, F1.4 aperture makes this lens desirable for use with Digital SLR cameras. This lens effectively becomes an 80mm medium telephoto lens on digital cameras with APS-C size image sensors. The optimum optical design and molded glass aspherical lens elements provide excellent correction for all types of aberrations. The super multi-layer lens coating reduces flare and ghosting. Superior optical performance is also ensured throughout the focusing range. This lens has a minimum focusing distance of 45cm (17.7") and has maximum magnification of 1:7.4. It creates a very attractive blur, even when a small aperture is used. This lens incorporates HSM (Hyper Sonic Motor), which ensures a quiet and high-speed AF as well as full-time manual focus override.
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| Customer Reviews:
See Review at dpreview.com. Excellent lens! September 11, 2008
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
I'm saving up to buy this lens. Right now, I own the Canon 50mm f/1.4, which is an excellent lens for the money (especially since I got it for only $200, never used), but the published review at dpreview.com convinced me. The bokeh on this lens looks fantastic!
I also own the Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM, which is an amazing lens. The build quality is fantastic, as are the photographic results. The only negative I had for that lens is that it's made only for "cropped sensor" cameras (APS-C), and won't work well with full-frame cameras. The 50mm DG won't have that problem, so should be an even better lens for most people.
I've fallen in love with the build-quality of the Sigma EX lenses (EX lenses are the high-quality Sigma lenses). The DC in the 30mm f/1.4 means it's made for the APS-C sensor cameras, while the DG in the 50mm f/1.4 means the lens has been made specifically to correct digital-camera-specific issues, but the lens will work on all sensor sizes.
Beautiful, sharp, fast, and fantastic bokeh August 13, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
In a world of zooms, many people would find plopping down $500 for a 50mm prime -- from a third party manufacturer, no less -- to be a bit absurd.
However, if you are a "prime person" -- and you know who you are -- you'll love the performance of this lens: super sharp photos, incredibly creamy background bokeh, nice contrast and flare resistance, and operation in low-light without needing super-high ISO or a blast of flash.
Pros:
+ @1.4 it's quite usably sharp
+ @1.8 and beyond, it's very sharp
+ the bokeh (rendition of out-of-focus areas) is really amazingly smooth. More so behind the DOF than in front, though
+ colors, contrast, etc, all excellent
+ great build quality, solid feel, free case and lens hood
Cons:
- weight
- price
- big filters (77mm)
Canon already has three 50mm lenses: the 1.8, 1.4, and 1.2L, so you might wonder why Sigma felt the need to jump into this market. The Canon's are all pretty good, with the 50/1.8 being an great value at $80, the 50/1.4 being a reliable workhorse (though prone to a dreamy look wide open), and the 1.2L, being, well, $1500. This lens is priced between the 1.4 and 1.2L, and judging from photos I've seen, it probably performs in that range as well. So it is filling an niche in the wide gulf between the 1.4 and 1.2L.
On my camera, a 400D, a 50mm is like a short tele, and I use it mostly for relatively close up photos of people. I like that when if upgrade to FF, I'll be able to continue to use this lens (and I'll sell my Sigma 30/1.4) whose place it would take.
The lens has not been out very long, and, to my knowledge, no formal reviews have been published (8/2008), but the general "buzz" is that people are seeing AF problems at distances beyond a few meters subject distance.
I personally have not done exhaustive analysis, but I feel my copy performs quite well. Then again, I don't use this lens for far-off subjects very much, and almost never wide open in that case. So there may indeed be problems with this regime, but I don't feel it affects my photography much. That said, it could be that I'm just not as exacting as some, or my camera's AF is sloppy enough to hide lens variation to begin with. However, I do pixel peep a lot and I get about the same hit/miss rate as I do with other lenses I own.
So far, I'm a happy customer.
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