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Sigma 24mm f/1.4 DG DN 'Art' Review

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The Sigma 24mm f/1.4 DG DN 'Art' lens is a high-quality and compact lens designed for mirrorless cameras. It offers excellent image quality, good autofocus, and an affordable price compared to other lenses in its class.

With excellent image quality, sharpness, and contrast, the Sigma 24mm f/1.4 DG DN 'Art' lens offers solid performance. It comes with good autofocus and a superb build quality at an affordable price, making it a great option for photographers.

Pros
  • Excellent image quality
  • Good autofocus
  • Solid build quality
  • Affordable price
Cons
  • Soft corners at wide apertures
  • Some color fringing
  • No image stabilization

The build quality is commendable and it comes with a weather gasket around the lens's rear mount and has an aperture ring that ends with positive clicks, offering an option for inserting rear gel filters.

The Sigma 24mm f/1.4 DG DN 'Art' lens is a full frame angle bright aperture lens for L-mount and Sony E-mount cameras. This new version is smaller and lighter than the previous SLR version, making it more convenient for mirrorless cameras. With excellent image quality, sharpness, and contrast, this lens offers solid performance. The build quality is commendable and it comes with a weather gasket around the lens's rear mount and has an aperture ring that ends with positive clicks, offering an option for inserting rear gel filters. The autofocus is quick and accurate, and it comes with an autofocus switch, focus hold, and manual focus switch. However, there is noticeable focus breathing. The lens doesn't have image stabilization and has a thread size of 72 millimeters. The image quality is excellent, with minor issues like soft corners at wide apertures and some color fringing, but it's overall a high-quality lens. It offers good contrast, lovely autofocus, and superb build quality at an affordable price, making it a great option for photographers.

The autofocus is quick and accurate, and it comes with an autofocus switch, focus hold, and manual focus switch.

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