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Sigma 180 mm f/2.8 APO Macro EX DG OS HSM

2 November 2012
Arkadiusz Olech

7. Coma, astigmatism and bokeh

The Sigma 2.8/180 OS corrects the coma in a perfect way. Its performance here is so good that if I randomly swapped places of the thumbnails below nobody would notice. Once again the tested lens deserves our praise!

Sigma 180 mm f/2.8 APO Macro EX DG OS HSM  - Coma, astigmatism and bokeh

The astigmatism correction can be described in a similar manner. An average difference between horizontal and vertical MTF50 function values amounted to just 3.5% which is a very good result.


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When it comes to the appearance of defocused light points here we also don’t have any major reservations. At the maximum relative aperture everything is as it should be. The light spread in the circles is very even; after stopping down you can notice a rim but it is nothing you should seriously worry about. Still, we are a little less impressed by the fact that even by f/5.6 the image is still far from a circle.

Sigma 180 mm f/2.8 APO Macro EX DG OS HSM  - Coma, astigmatism and bokeh