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Anyone use the Sigma 16mm F1.4 ?

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Re: Anyone use the Sigma 16mm F1.4 ?

Larry Rexley wrote:

I agree, I keep thinking about the Viltrox 23mm f1.4 to get another stop advantage from the Canon 22mm f2, but its image quality from reviews has kept me from buying it.

I do extremely low-light railroad videos with the M6ii, and lately have been shooting them with a fast prime wide-angle on an M6ii and a fast telephoto on a second M6ii.

The Samyang (Rokinon) 21mm f/1.4 would be well worth trying if you can get hold of it. I think mine is sharper than my EF-M 22mm with stronger colours and a tiny amount of simple barrel distortion. It's 3x the size of the Canon 22mm but less than half the size of the Sigma 16mm and 120g lighter. Come to think of it, it's so much better for astro than the RF 35mm that I sent my RF lens back. The UK importers discontinued it just before I bought mine, and it's expensive for a manual focus lens without contacts, but you're used to those. I've not checked mine for flare against my 22mm, but this is what lenstip.com said about its flare. https://www.lenstip.com/462.9-Lens_review-Samyang_21_mm_f_1.4_ED_AS_UMC_CS_Ghosting_and_flares.html. thoroughly recommended if you can live without autofocus at f/1.4.

... From the reviews, I think the Viltrox would give me similar results to the Canon 22mm, with enough flare and color fringing to make it unusable for the night train videos I create, and not enough sharpness across the frame to get clean results.

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