Latest or all posts or last 15, 30, 90 or 180 days.
2024-03-18 22:45:08
Designed for the most demanding needs of photographers and videographers.
877-865-7002
Today’s Deal Zone Items... Handpicked deals...
$3399 $2999
SAVE $400

$2997 $2997
SAVE $click

$348 $248
SAVE $100

$999 $699
SAVE $300

$5999 $4399
SAVE $1600

$1049 $879
SAVE $170

$4499 $3499
SAVE $1000

$999 $849
SAVE $150

$999 $799
SAVE $200

$5999 $4399
SAVE $1600

$799 $699
SAVE $100

$1199 $899
SAVE $300

$1099 $899
SAVE $200

$348 $248
SAVE $100

$1602 $998
SAVE $604

$3399 $2999
SAVE $400

$3997 $3697
SAVE $300

$5999 $4399
SAVE $1600

$1397 $997
SAVE $400

Sigma 40mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art First Look

See my Sigma DG HSM Art wishlist.

I wont’t be able to post much from the field this trip—just too short a time. Full coverage will have to wait until I return home. Shooting in snow is hard to do for many reasons, but mainly access/slogging.

The Sigma 40mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art is a spectacularly good lens—the best yet from Sigma, impressive by just about any standard. I rank it up there with Zeiss Otus lenses overall and yet it falls grievously short in one key area: pronounced (stunningly unexpected!) focus shift (flare resistance is also a concern).

Add in troublesome front-focusing errors on the Nikon D850, and the Sigma 40mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art is a sort of idiot-savant lens in that front-focus errors tend to cancel out focus shift by f/2.8 or so, so that sorts itself out, which is good or hundreds of shots would have been junk. Problem is, using Fine Focus Adjust to cancel out focus errors for f/1.4 and f/2 screws up stopped down performance because the focus shift no longer cancels-out the AF error <gah!!!!!>run screaming into creek to wake from bad dream</gah!!!!!>.

f7.1 @ 1/20 sec, ISO 31; 2018-12-17 13:03:27
NIKON D850 + Sigma 40mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art
ENV: Lundy Canyon aspen campground, altitude 7200 ft / 2195 m, 38°F / 3°C

[low-res image for bot]

Correction for secondary color is among the best I have ever seen wide open at f/1.4, though the image below is stopped down, it looks just as good in terms of color at f/1.4.

L Chambers
f5.6 @ 1/200 sec, ISO 200; 2018-12-17 13:13:23
NIKON D850 + Sigma 40mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art
ENV: Lundy Canyon aspen campground, altitude 7300 ft / 2225 m, 38°F / 3°C

[low-res image for bot]

CLICK TO VIEW: Photo Gear


View all handpicked deals...

Nikon Z7 II Mirrorless Camera
$2997 $2997
SAVE $click

diglloyd Inc. | FTC Disclosure | PRIVACY POLICY | Trademarks | Terms of Use
Contact | About Lloyd Chambers | Consulting | Photo Tours
RSS Feeds | X.com/diglloyd
Copyright © 2022 diglloyd Inc, all rights reserved.