🔴 Leica SL 50mm f1.4 alternative: Sigma Art 50 1.4
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Budget Leica Summilux-SL 50mm f1.4 ASPH ALTERNATIVE = Sigma Art 50mm f1.4 on Leica SL CL
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Testing the Sigma 50mm f1.4 Art lens for Leica L mount. Mini review/ overview compared to other 50mm lenses and Sigma Art 50mm photography with Leica SL and Leica CL.
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Yeah, it is big. It is a carry-over lens being HSM. Sigma's new 85/1.4 and the 35/1.4, they have been built up from scratch as DG DN Art lenses and as such, smaller than the any of the current equivalent current HSM lenses. Will be interesting to see Sigma do the same with this lens and make it a true 50/1.4 DG DN Art lens. The new 85 & 35 have an aperture ring if you want to do it manually. I have both the new 35 & 85/1.4 lenses in addition to my M lenses and I think they are terrific. I really don't use their lens hoods so they do look smaller on my SL2.
Thanks Peter, great info 🙏🏻
A few weeks ago, I used my old Canon DSLR again for a long time because I needed a Macro Lens. Most of the time, I was fighting with the autofocus to focus on the right parts of the image. I don't hit the focus with my manual focus cameras and lenses all the time, but I produced much more out to focus pictures with my autofocus lenses.
Thanks yes me too!
I have the lens, and i agree, of course, it IS massive. It doesn't look unbalanced on my SL, but it does look ridiculously gigantic on my Sigma FP and my Leica T. Image quality is very, very good indeed, up there with the best from any other brand, good value for money, too bad it is so big and heavy that more often than not I will leave it at home...
Thanks. Yes optically I agree it’s well corrected and sharp.
Autofocus isn't the only reason that the Sigma Art is so large. The original lens design is from the Sigma 50mm Art for DSLR's like Nikon F, Canon EF and Pentax K. It is essentially a DSLR lens with an extended barrel to allow for the the EF to L mount adapter. You would get the equivalent lens with the Sigma 50mm Art with Sigma MC21 adapter, although that combination's autofocus will be hit and miss on a L mount body. Sigma will eventually make a DG DN version which will be designed for mirrorless cameras, which should offer better autofocus and smaller size/weight.
Thanks great info 🙏🏻👌🏻
The thumb nail for the video is awesome
Ha thanks, I let my creative brain get a bit carried away!
My optimism bias made me half read the alert… can’t wait for the Voigtlander F1
Thanks Marcus, yes the Voigtlander f1 part 2 video to come later this month 👍🏻🙂
Have several of the Sigma 'contemporary' lenses for the SL2.. Very nice... don't need fast... prefer smaller and agile...
Thanks Stuart. Yes agreed I much prefer their small lenses.
very interesting video as always!
Thanks Alberto!
ART40mmF1.4: "That's not a lens... this is a lens!"
Haha nice!
I wish Sigma will launch a DG DN version of this monster ! The rendering is so nice.
@@obscur_yoann yes!
Nice lens, nice review but too big for me... I'll have to decide between Nokton f1 vs TTartisan f 0.95 ... for my M11
So I'll wait for your TTartisan review 😄
Thanks Jerome.. yes me too! Coming soon!
At some point stupidly big lenses should become its own category: SBL. Some lenses are getting far too large, which I assume is due to trying to deal with even more megapixels, aside from autofocus, which is also getting out of hand.
When you think of an M camera and optical rangefinder after a certain point an optical finder just won't deliver enough focusing precision for the gigantic number of megapixels, like I see in the newer M models. Then you need an EVF for any kind of precision manual focusing. If they had a brain they would go for dynamic range at this point, or sensor tweaks that matter.
I think we are reaching the limits of sanity with some of this tech. To me, with Leica M bodies (which I do not own) and rangefinders in general, the compactness of the system and nice small lenses is what is really attractive. Sure you don't get much in the way of telephoto but if you want that there are other systems.
I like nice compact high-quality lenses for any camera system, it's one reason I like the old manual systems. Now even with some bigger expensive lenses you have some that are half-assed performers that they fix it in camera, and they are still expensive. I seem to recall someone doing a review of a fancy new Nikon lens and the actual distortion was worthy of a cheap 1970's zoom lens, but the camera fixed it with internal software, making corrections the glass should have made. So, what are people really paying for?
Thanks John, yes! If you see my 24mm video you see the distortion as I had the lens profile turned off. Signs told me that it needs to be used with their software to perform well (vs Leica etc that were design well out the box even 50+ years ago.. not just Leica*)
its an amazing Lens. And yeah, if you can, please give the 50 Lux SL a review, you will love it. Though I have the feeling, the SL lux is a little wider than 50 mm.
Thanks Marc, yes if I get the opportunity, now I use the SL it would be nice to test some SL glass 👌🏻
Hi Matt, yes, The Sigma Art 50 1.4 is a monstrous lens. Wayyy too big for my taste and unfortunately, they do not offer a compact DG DN Contemporary 50 (unless you want to consider the 45mm 2.8). I've grown used to autofocus lenses but am by no means married to them. They serve a purpose. When used correctly, they provide instant critical focus, much faster than I could possibly get in run and shoot situations. In my film days, sort of close to "f8 and be there photography" using sunny 16 (adjusted to f8), and zone focus, only with much more precise focus and exposure. For portraiture, I agree that with L system cameras, you are better off using manual focus. I don't believe there is any L system camera offered right now that matches the ease and precision of Sony or Canon autofocus for such critical work. That said, I prefer using my vintage manual lenses when shooting deliberately and my autofocus lenses when being more casual in my approach. I think I'd be all over a Sigma 50 DG DN offering.
Thanks and yes agreed on gap for small 50 👍🏻
The Sigma has 13 glasses but the new Voigtlander 9. Glass comes at a cost in terms of weight, price and quality.
Yes! Correct, I nearly mentioned all the elements which is a big contrast to say the Heliar I reviewed not do long ago. Less is often more 👍🏻🙂
Always count on Sigma to come out with an enormous lens.
It almost a decade old design, though
Ha thanks Carlos
@@fellowcitizen yes sorry it’s not new new
Sorry, the size of this lens is absolutely ridiculous, auto focus or not...
Yes not a lens for me
No idea why these mirrorless lenses dwarf previous AF lenses, never mind MF. Canon and Nikon make 50mm f1.4 lenses that are downright miniscule compared to these monstrosities. Sony also decided to shrink the camera, yet explode the lenses to absurd proportions. If Sigma decides to redesign this HSM lens into a DG DN configuration, I pray it's SMALLER!
Mirrourless lenses are smaller than SLR counterparts. The basis for the large size is twofold, and not due to them being mirrourless - sensors require telecentric ray designs, whereas film lenses can have extremely oblique rays; and high-density sensors are again more demanding on lenses - requiring them to be of a larger, higher standard or risk magnifying defects.
Sensors and lenses keep developing, though, so there have been improvements, and computing power is also better at redressing some defects on the fly, allowing high powered compact lenses. Sigma was initially opposed to computer intervention for their high end lenses, however, Leica convinced them otherwise.
I think in will be smaller 👍🏻
@@fellowcitizen thanks!
@fellow citizen your first sentence is counter to the rest. Mirrorless lenses are NOT smaller than their SLR counterparts. That's my point. If an M-lens can throw an image circle sufficient to cover the 24x36 format, then it doesn't need to be bigger than a Leica 50mm Summilux-M. Sigma DG DN lenses are smaller than their previous HSM counter parts because they no longer are designed for mirrored SLR bodies.
@@jklphoto Scientifically, short-flange based lens designs MAY be smaller than long-flange designs like SLRs and rangefinders. The benefit is greatest with wide-angle lenses, and may not affect telephoto lenses much.
If a short-flange mirrourless design is larger than an slr design it means that a decision has been made to make it more powerful, however, an slr lens of that same size would not be as powerful (all else being equal).
Obviously, there may be specific differences in materials, or one design may be genius and another crappy, and these will also make a difference.
This Anabolic Steroid lens will disqualified by the World Press Photo,
Put a pair of castor wheels under this lens and
it looks like the bonnet of a Jaguar E type 1965.
I think it is too much, it is over the top
Bring me back to the days of a f/3,5 lens
Thanks Jaco!
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Haha yes Sigma is not Leica but some of their lenses are good optically (if you just want sharp/ modern... boring?).
too big too expensive
I bought a sony 50/1.4 for £60 ,I use it on my sony's , my fuji's , my pan and oly 's . It's a quarter the size
I could use it on your leica but not on my m8
@@davejenx on fuji x? What's the lens and the mount exactly?
Thanks Dave, yes get a Voigtlander for that money 👌🏻
@@quite1enough I think he means a different lens John