Best low light lens for 700D

Shanetp wrote:

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MikeJ9116 wrote:

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The last post of the TO made me think, that 35 mm on APS-C is too tight. Therefore I guess, 30 mm won't be that much better. The 18-35 mm on the other hand, is a good sugestion, although it lacks image stabilisation.

That was my feeling yes, but I'm actually considering it at the moment with the options I have for lenses. There is a lot of good photographs at 35mm I just feel that with my current 18-55 I'm usually trying to get more in so usually closer to 18mm.

I'm considering a 35mm though, I guess it will just require a little more effort and stepping further back and things to get the composition I want. The Canon seems to suffer from a lack of sharpness though.

If I didn't need imagine stabilisation I would have already gotten the Sigma f/1.4 but without IS on the lens or the body I have a feeling most of my photographs will be blurry.

I have a 200D and my current travel and walkabout lens is a Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 DC HSM Art. It's a fantastic lens and to be honest I have had no issue with it's lack of stabilisation. The 18-35mm equates to about 28-56mm so would appear to be suitable for your intended use. No long ago there was no stabilisation, I would suggest if you have any concerns you should practice your stance, there's a number of good articles on how to stand and brace your arms to provide a good platform.

There are always the doom-sayers when Sigma lens are mentioned, I own 2 and have never had any issues. I have the Sigma Dock but have never had to use it for any AF microadjustment.

I have owned a few Sigma lenses and while they work well most times they do have a propensity to not work well at other times due to incompatibility issues with camera firmware. A dock does not fix these issues. So the people you refer to are not doomsayers but people who have real world experience with Sigma lenses. I have had them myself.

If you read your statement above.....

From the

your

dictionary: Doomsayer - a person who predicts disaster.

A lot of people experienced AF inconsistency problems with Sigma lenses. The dock does not fix AF inconsistency issues with OVF AF. This has nothing to do with prediction.

Suggesting the dock will solve these problems, that would be prediction.

You clearly don't read (or understand) the post. I don't think that I have said anywhere in any post that the dock has the ability to solve a problem of an inconsistent autofocus through the Optical Viewfinder. It will as I stated allow you to update the firmware and allow AF micro adjustments.

Of course you did not say anything about how to solve inconsistency with Sigma lenses. That would make you a liar or a doom sayer.

I find it disappointing and somewhat ironic that you are now bandying about the word "doomsayer" and even "liar" in your posts when only a few days ago you were expressing moral outrage at my use of just the word doomsayer. I do find this somewhat hypocritical.

It would appear that you have finally read my posts, so at least we can finally agree on what I have posted.

Now to what Sigma's dock use and firmware upgrades state they do, the two updates this year for the Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 DC HSM Art A013 that I own say:

1. Firmware Update Ver 2.0 dated 2018.03.07

● It ensures compatibility with Canon's in-camera Lens Aberration Correction function, which enables correction matching the optical characteristics of the attached lens.
● It corrects the phenomenon that abnormal images appear or operation errors occur when Canon's in-camera Lens Aberration Correction function is enabled.
● It corrects the phenomenon that exposure during shooting through the viewfinder or Live View mode becomes unstable.

2. Firmware Update Ver 2.1 dated 2018.06.12

● It has corrected the phenomenon that the continuous shooting speed of some SIGMA interchangeable lenses with firmware Ver.2.00 decreases in certain combinations with some cameras.

Who other than Sigma can say what issues these updates actually address. I would not like to "predict" as you

sorry, that was your dictionary

assert. That would clearly be asking for another unintelligible response from you.