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Canon 16-35 f4L vs Sigma 14-24 f2.8 Art

Started May 8, 2018 | Questions thread
Steve Balcombe Forum Pro • Posts: 15,582
Re: one of canon's finest lenses vs.....

1NoobPhotographer wrote:

Thank you for all your opinions! I am leaning toward more of the canon, but something about that sigma. I will head to the local camera shop to try that Sigma out.

I wonder if you've decided yet?

It would be easy to get sucked in to the idea that 14 mm must be better than 16 mm, when in reality 16 mm is very, very wide (to the point that it's difficult to use) and if you really needed more than that you surely wouldn't need to ask the question.

And while f/2.8 is nice to have, 4-stop IS is more useful. People who say IS isn't useful on wide lenses either have never used one, or don't do anything challenging enough for it to make a difference. Even for action photography - the usual case for aperture over IS - it's angular motion which determines motion blur and that tends to be less with a wide angle composition. In truth you'll rarely run into it as a limiting factor.

Handling such a lens in the shop you're bound to be impressed by the huge bulbous front element and the sheer heft of it. I suspect you would be a lot less enamoured of those two features in real-world use!

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