| Latest Review Posted | Sigma EX DG HSM 50mm F1.4
I, unfortunately, was a person who got a not-so-QC'd-well copy of the lens. I often shoot at wider apertures because I enjoy the shallow DOF. I could rarely focus on what I wanted to, correctly, with the autofocus. To be honest, I couldn't tell if it was backfocusing or frontfocusing as it just confused the heck out of me! If I wanted to have to manually focus something, I might as well have just bought a manual focus lens.
Regardless, when it was focused on something, it was pretty fantastically sharp. Contrast was great, there was no fringing (to my eye). The only other problem I encountered was when photographing at night, the flaring from the fire was pretty extreme. It's a pretty harsh test of any lens, but my old Nikon 1.4D didn't react as much to it as this lens did.
In the end, I returned the lens to B&H. |
