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Specifications:
| Manufacturer | Sigma |
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| Model | 8-16 mm f/4.5-5.6 DC HSM |
| Lens style | Wide angle zoom |
| Focal length | 8 - 16 mm |
| Maximum aperture | f/4.5 - 5.6 |
| Angle of view | 114.5 - 75.7 o |
| Closest focusing distance | 0.24 m |
| Maximum magnification | 1:7.8 |
| Minimum aperture | 22 |
| Number of diaphragm blades | 7 |
| Auto focus type | HSM |
| Lens Construction | 15 elements / 11 groups |
| Filter diameter | 0 mm |
| Macro | No |
| Available mounts | Canon EF Nikon F Sony A / Minolta Sigma Pentax K |
| Dimensions | 75 x 105.7 mm |
| Weight | 545 g |
| Additional information | Four FLD (“F” Low Dispersion) glass elements Released: Feb. 2010 |
Average rating (9 owners reviews).
| Build quality | 4.67 |   |
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| Optical quality | 4.44 | |
| Value for money | 4.67 | |
| Overall | 4.59 | |
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Owner since: 1 year
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User profile: Semipro
Cons: none
Pros: excellent -build, sharpness, contrast, colors, overall image quality
Summary: the best ultrawide in the world for EF mount
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Owner since: 1 year
Price: £400
User profile: Amateur
Cons: Useless for landscape, but maybe I'm using it wrong or I got a poor copy. Slow, but then it is an 8mm. Blown out highlights. Tricky to learn how to get the best out of it.
Pros: Fantastic for wide angle inside closed spaces or to emphasize close objects without getting fisheye. Centre of the image is very sharp for objects within a few metres. Wide - 35mm full frame equivalent of 12mm minimum focal length.
Summary: Once you understand this lens, it's very useful and good fun. I just can't get the thing to do good landscapes. Try exposure compensation and different metering settings to control highlights.
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Owner since: 2 years
Price: € 46
User profile: Amateur
Cons: Edge sharpness (not absolute but vs center). Light performance vs comparable lenses.
Pros: WIDE!!. Nice build quality. VG overall performance for price. (Price above that is. At SRP, I wouldn't buy it..
Summary: Get for your DX camera and enjoy. If you have the cash and or FX, get the Nikon 14-24 ED.
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Owner since: 1 year
Price: 50
User profile: Semipro
Cons: a little slow,you have to use triple indoor .cannot use filter in front of it.
Pros: wide and slightly，more shapeness than ef-s 10-22，and also a cheaper one.
Summary: it is the best choose at this time if you love to shot the landscape
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Owner since: 3 months
Price: 123
User profile: Amateur
Cons: 123
Pros: 123
Summary: 123
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Owner since: 1 year
Price: $600
User profile: Amateur
Cons: *No front filter attachment *Corners do not exhibit the same level of detail as the center *Slower aperture *Focus tends to hunt more in lower light
Pros: *Wide, wide, wide! It will surprise you just how wide it can go *Fantastic build quality *Very useful in tight spaces, because at 8mm it will focus on anything more than 5cm away from the front glass
Summary: I don't shoot a lot with this lens, but I wish I could because of how well it's built, how well it performs, and how jaw-droppingly wide it can go.
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Owner since: 1 month
Price: 450 USD (u
User profile: Amateur
Cons: f4.5-5.6 Cannot use Filter !!!!
Pros: Pretty sharp. Widest lense for crop user.
Summary: Better than Sigma 10-20 f4-5.6
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Owner since: 1 month
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User profile: Amateur
Cons: absolute no diistortion from 12 mm to 16 mm -- sharpnes at maximum level anywhere
Pros: none
Summary: very,very usefull
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Owner since: 1 month
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User profile: Amateur
Cons: Slower than the Tokina 11-16mm f/2,8, so in low light circumstances such as indoors or night photography, you may wish to use a tripod. However, as time moves on, DSLR's keep getting better high ISO performance, which helps offset this problem. At ISO 800-1600, handheld lowlight shots are possible, especially thanks to the very wide angle which help reduce the problems from a shaky grip.
Pros: Unique angle. No other lens like this (in late 2010) for APS-C format sensors. Very sharp and rich in contrast, with good results even wide open at f/4,5. Low chromatic abberation problems too, thanks to the FLD glass.
Summary: This is THE lens to get if you want to cover an as wide angle as possible. There's to date no other rectilinear (i.e. non-fisheye) APS-C format lens as wide as this, and this lens is comparable to a 12-24mm lens on a full frame body. This lens is unique in this regard. The lens focuses silently thanks to Sigma's HSM motor, and fairly reliable from my usage in about a month now. I can only think of a single disadvantage, besides the learning curve from composing your photographs without distorting the geometry too much (but this is a general ultra-wide angle thing and quite unrelated to this lens), and that would be the low light performance which isn't perfect at f/4,5-f/5,6. It's adequate though, and if high ISO photos are tolerable for you, handheld photos are often possible. If you most frequently want to photograph ultra-wide indoors, Tokina 11-16mm f/2,8 may be an option though, since it's comparable with very good sharpness as well.
