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Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 DC DN Review

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The Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 DC DN lens is a great buy for its price. It is lightweight, offers good build quality, and has low focus breathing, making it ideal for video makers. The lens also provides sharp image quality with good contrast, making it a good value for money.

The Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 DC DN lens is a great value for money with its lightweight design, good build quality, and sharp image quality. It's a good upgrade from standard kit lenses.

Pros
  • Good build quality
  • Low focus breathing
  • Sharp image quality
  • Good value for money
Cons
  • Softer corners at f/2.8
  • Longitudinal chromatic aberration
  • Distortion and vignetting issues

The lens offers low focus breathing, making it ideal for video makers.

The Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 DC DN lens is a great buy for its price due to its lightweight and good build quality. It offers a fast standard zoom lens and low focus breathing, making it ideal for video makers. Despite being lightweight, the lens is solidly assembled without any shaky parts and features a metal lens mount with weather sealing around the edge. The lens also provides sharp image quality with good contrast and low aberration, making it a good value for money. However, it has some optical compromises such as softer corners at f/2.8 and longitudinal chromatic aberration. It lacks image stabilization and has some issues with distortion and vignetting when corrections are turned off. Despite these issues, the low price makes it a good upgrade from standard kit lenses.

Despite some optical compromises and lack of image stabilization, the low price makes it a good value for money.

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Christopher Frost

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