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Canon 32mm F1.4 vs Sigma 30mm F1.4?

Started Oct 13, 2019 | Questions thread
nnowak Veteran Member • Posts: 9,076
Re: The problem with that "Silver" review
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Marco Nero wrote:

kalisti wrote:

thunder storm wrote:

Unfortunately i didn't find reviewers who have reviewed both.

not a review of both, but close as it gets I guess

https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-ef-m-32mm-f1-4-review/2

i was surprised by the result, makes me wonder about the 16&56mm vs the 32mm

The opinion of the DPreview staff was flawed (not just in my own opinion, if you read some of the other comments below the comparisons). Despite the Silver Award with an 85% rating, the standards of comparison were skewed against the Canon lens.

The biggest factor that people miss with these percentage ratings and awards is time.  The Sigma lens was launched 2 years and 7 months before the Canon 32mm f/1.4.  When the Sigma lens was launched it was a very good lens with virtually no competition.  The Canon 32mm is a better lens, but it is really an just incremental step up from the Sigma with more than a 2 year delay.  Again, none of this is meant as a slight against the fantastic EF-M 32mm.  Time moves on and so do expectations.  If launch dates were reversed, the rankings would be reversed and separated by a greater margin.

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